PALACE CAFE – A GEM ON CANAL

PALACE CAFE –PART 1

 

Since the famed original Brennan’s closed more than a year ago, Palace Café may be the best of the many New Orleans restaurants operated by various permutations of the Brennan family.

 

Certainly, it is the grandest space.

 

Housed in the historic Werlein’s music building, Palace Café is one of the most beautiful adaptive reuses of an historic building in America.

 

The dining room is a perfect blend of high ceilings and a preserved grand staircase and modern accessibility.  An elevator serves wheelchair users well in this airy palace of creole dining.

 

Open since 1991, Palace Café has won a ton of major dining awards while witnessing the revival of Canal Street and the renaissance of the Central Business District as a Garden of Eden of new and old style New Orleans cookery.

 

Casual outdoor seating, during the cooler months, provides a front row seat to the restored Canal Street Streetcar line and all the pedestrian activity along the regenerated grand boulevard that borders both the CBD and French Quarter.

 

We stopped in right at 11:30 a.m. lunch opening because we wanted a fine meal in our bellies before we flew back home.

 

The bowtied and jacketed waiter understood our please for expedient service, so we could make to the hotel and taxi to the airport.

 

Nothing felt rushed, underdone, or hurried during our luncheon in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows on Canal.

 

605 CANAL STREET,  504.523.1661  http://www.palacecafe.com

• Lunch
  Monday - Saturday: 11:30 - 2:30
• Dinner
  Nightly, 5:30 - til
• Sunday Brunch
  10:30 - 2:30