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Before re-opening after Katrina, all food service-type places had to be given certification by the Department of Health & Hospitals. This one was given to Le Crepe Nanou, which is my favorite restaurant anywhere. It's just a modest neighborhood crepe joint, and it's the first place we go every time we go back. It's also the only restaurant we go to every time we go back.
As you can imagine, much of Katrina recovery was a bureaucratic, red tape nightmare. One restaurant that did not fare as well is the beloved Gabrielle in Mid-city. If you're interested in such a story, you may read it here. To hear their side of it, they were run out of town on a rail. But I'm happy as Hell to see that they have returned and now have a new business in the French Quarter.
Commanders Palace Renovation
The Brennan family, who own many high-profile restaurants in New Orleans, immediately created a link to a bulletin board on the Commanders Palace website for displaced restaurant employees (not only for their own restaurants, but any restaurant employees) to let each other know of their safety and plans to return or calls for help. You can hear a great podcast interview with one of the owners, Ti Martin, right after they re-opened at New Orleans Podcasting.com.
You will often hear of the "restaurant culture" in New Orleans. It is true that it is a world within a world, both for those who dine frequently and casually as well as those who work in the service industry. I think there are more restaurants than cats in New Orleans.
It was my impression that New Orleans is inhabited by the richest people in the world and the poorest people in the world. There isn't much of a middle class. The middle class that is there is made up almost entirely of transient service industry folks and rich college kids, rounded out by the non-skank portion of the arts community. But that was just my narrow little world.
Commanders Palace RenovationThe Brennan family, who own many high-profile restaurants in New Orleans, immediately created a link to a bulletin board on the Commanders Palace website for displaced restaurant employees (not only for their own restaurants, but any restaurant employees) to let each other know of their safety and plans to return or calls for help. You can hear a great podcast interview with one of the owners, Ti Martin, right after they re-opened at New Orleans Podcasting.com.
You will often hear of the "restaurant culture" in New Orleans. It is true that it is a world within a world, both for those who dine frequently and casually as well as those who work in the service industry. I think there are more restaurants than cats in New Orleans.It was my impression that New Orleans is inhabited by the richest people in the world and the poorest people in the world. There isn't much of a middle class. The middle class that is there is made up almost entirely of transient service industry folks and rich college kids, rounded out by the non-skank portion of the arts community. But that was just my narrow little world.
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