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An Incoming Speakeasy-Style Bar Will Pay Homage to Louisiana Cooking and Cocktails
Bourbon Street, from the family behind Nacheaux, will serve seafood boils and étouffée alongside Sazeracs and spiked watermelon lemonade in a passcode-required restaurant
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When Nacheaux chef and owner Anthony Brown visited New Orleans for the first time, he went to the tourist staples Cafe Du Monde, Commander’s Palace. It wasn’t until he visited with his wife, Nacheaux co-owner and Louisiana expat Stephanie Brown, that he got a real feel for the place. “I went to New Orleans twice before I met my wife I’m not a huge partier, I went for the food but when my wife brought me there, it was a completely different experience,” he says. “She’s a local, you get treated like family. You have a concern, a problem, you just want to chitchat, somebody there is going to give you that attention.”
The COVID-19 pandemic crushed Portland s economy last year. One indication of how dismal things were: the sharp decline in the number of new business licenses issued by the city of Portland. The city s restaurant industry, which faced some of the nation s tightest pandemic restrictions, was particularly hard hit. The Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association says that 500 Portland restaurants closed during the year. Balanced against those closures were 330 new openings. But the net loss of 170 and the fact that most eateries that remained open employed skeleton crews for takeout only explains why the restaurant and hospitality sector lost more jobs than any other business sector in the state and why unemployment in Multnomah County (7%) remains higher than the state average (6.4%).