After several years of cooking for big groups and local churches, Rosa Alvarado decided to bring her panache for cooking to an even bigger audience and open her own family restaurant. Since February of 2010, Victoria's Cafe and Pastries has been serving up a variety of dishes, including American home cooking, French-style pastries, salads, sandwiches, wraps and burritos. Born in Mexico and raised in Chicago, Alvarado formerly worked as a pastry chef at a Ritz Carlton hotel. She has been living in the Smyrna area since 1990 and said she knows what the community's taste buds are craving.