Wonderful news. This could help alleviate the strange little vacuum of business activity that exists between Chartres and Decatur and lead to more New Orleans based businesses in the Quarter. And this means that Cafe Du Monde and Morning Call will once again be within a few blocks of each other, serving 24 hours a day .
Morning Call coffee and beignet shop could soon return to French Quarter | NOLA.com.
If this doesn’t beat all. FQ building owner showing his ignorance for his own family’s legacy and his building by saying he is selling one of the most historic restaurants in the city to a t-shirt shop owner in the Quarter who says it will soon be filled with fried chicken and more t-shirts. This building housed Madame Begue’s which was the most popular pre-Civil War era restaurant in New Orleans (and maybe North America) and was rejuvenated by This guy’s brother, the convivial Steven Latter as an “everybody knows your name” French Quarter place. Now that Steven Latter has passed away, they have barely waited for him to be in the ground before pulling this crap.
Not sure much can be done by regular citizens-this may be up to the money folks who can throw some dollars at this jerk to get him to sell and move the hell away.
Stay tuned.
UPDATE: SAVED by the citizens of our city with new menu and cookbook.
Save Tujague's – Please – The Editor's Room – March 2013 – New Orleans, LA.
One of the longstanding needlepoint shops in the city has moved-slightly. Quarter Stitch which had withstood the Alpine Bar as a neighbor, the on again off again repairs due to a historical building owned by the state, has finally moved into new space right across the street from their old location. You can now find them on the “lake side” of Chartres between Wilkinson and the Square. The new location seems more spacious and certainly is no worse than the last as far as location, and once the gutting and constructing of Dickie Brennan’s new restaurant at Le Petit Theatre is over, things should be delightful for the wonderful yarn store we all love.
The shock of coming across their empty location was the subject of an earlier post back in September… Their website shows them now on Royal, which makes me very glad…
Get to the edge of the French Market at Barracks to get your one of a kind Hallowe’en costume pieces from an amazing array of local artists. 17 years of dressing New Orleans for tricking and treating and it doesn’t look like its aged at all! Led by Cree McCree, the queen of flea (markets) as well as our region’s daring nutria fashionista paired with her fellow royalty, Tracy Thomson, milliner to well, everyone in the city, you’ll find all of your favorites artists here today from 12-6.
They’re set up in the place next to the flea market, right between Louisiana Pizza Factory and Tyler’s Produce, along the barricade.
After you see and buy there, get to Barracks and Chartres for the neighbors usual twice a year “yard” sale. Amazing finds as always from these professional pickers (and Lakin tells me that they will also be out tomorrow with more stuff from the warehouse, so stop by both days…)
All with a drink in your hand and the sun on your back….
I’m doing this a little out of order because I’ve actually been to the hot dog place a few times, but since this morning I found a new donut place in the Quarter, and its the weekend, I’m going to write about that first, and then hot dogs later in the week.
Juicy G’s Donuts in the 1000 block of Iberville (first block off Rampart) makes and serves cheap but good donuts and breakfast sandwiches. G (Gregory) is a professional kitchen guy, having spend the last almost 20 years working for Dickie Brennan’s at most if not all of his places. Now, he has his own shingle and passion and I urge you to stop by and taste his food.
The chocolate donut and the cake donut that i tried were both excellent. He was just about out of donut holes (A New Orleans tradition from MacKenzie days) but I’m sure they are just as good. The breakfast sandwich description was tempting and only 3 or 4 bucks so I’ll be back for those with such good prices. This is the way places used to be around town: someone did something well, they did it without spending hundreds of thousands on “ambience” and without artificially inflating prices and therefore demand. Since the recent huge success of Mr. Henry’s on St. Claude and his Buttermilk Drop on St. Bernard, more people are aware of the light touch with flour that many male New Orleanians have. Take the time to check out G’s as well.
Speaking of MacKenzie’s, this block used to have one, along with a shoe repair, locksmith, supermarket, card shop, pet store and post office among other things. Unfortunately, the owners seem to have let the buildings fall into disrepair, but a few are bravely rebuilding. (Well, the locksmith has never left so he really has hung in there! AND he knows his business and can make keys that ALWAYS work, unlike some of those stores that give their clerks 2 minutes of training on a key grinder…) Support these Iberville pioneers efforts by walking, biking or driving by and grabbing a few items and getting to know these guys.
Open 6 am til, 7 days a week. 504-428-2607
We assume all of this street construction mess is in preparation for the 2013 SuperBowl. Because why after all, would a poor city and its administration work on the streets of the Quarter AGAIN before some of those roads broken in hurricanes that happened years ago?
Why indeed?
So, if you are coming to the Quarter prepare yourself for backed up travel streets, very limited parking along with an overabundance of construction vehicles running their engines for hours outside.
And they wonder why we drink so much here.
French Quarter block by block 
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