By the end of the meal, dinner at Gautreau s still felt very much like Gautreau’s. As usual, that meant dinner felt special, because of the setting and the service and
In late September Gautreau’s served the final dinner under the ownership that had steered the Uptown classic through three decades. Soon its doors will open again to start a new
A New Orleans native named John Currence transformed the college town of Oxford, Miss., into one of the dining capitals of the South. His favorite meal growing up in the Crescent City was breakfast. He remembers having pancakes at his grandmother s house with Louisiana cane syrup, bacon-and-egg sandwiches at Allgood s in Uptown New Orleans with his father, and the occasional Sunday brunch at Commander s Palace in the Garden District.