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Dunbar's is coming back!

Posted on 12/3/15 at 10:46 am
Posted by arseinclarse
Member since Apr 2007
35472 posts
Posted on 12/3/15 at 10:46 am
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Long before Freret Street was a restaurant row, Dunbar’s Creole Cooking was a food destination here in its own right, and a cultural crossroads for those who shared a taste for its home-style, affordable New Orleans flavors.

The longtime Creole soul food eatery has been in various stages of limbo since Hurricane Katrina, but now proprietress Celestine Dunbar has a new blueprint to return.

“I’m rolling now, we’re doing this,” she said. “My tears of sorrow are turning to tears of joy.”

Dunbar plans to open a new restaurant called Dunbar’s Creole Cuisine at 7834 Earhart Blvd., part of an old brick commercial building in Gert Town. She recently signed a lease on the property and the build-out of the storefront is now underway. Dunbar hopes to open sometime in January.


Posted by TigerWise
Front Seat of an Uber
Member since Sep 2010
35132 posts
Posted on 12/3/15 at 10:49 am to
Yes !
Posted by arseinclarse
Member since Apr 2007
35472 posts
Posted on 12/3/15 at 10:53 am to
Pork chops the size of your face
Posted by unclebuck504
N.O./B.R./ATL
Member since Feb 2010
1716 posts
Posted on 12/3/15 at 12:22 pm to
Good to see.

My Mom used to work at a clinic on the corner of Louisiana and Freret. One day I took her to lunch and she wanted to go to Dunbar's. I had never been there before. BLEW MY MIND how good it was. Their gumbo is awesome, one of the few gumbos I would buy.

I had heard that after Katrina she had set up shop in the Loyola law school.

Glad to see they're setting up shop in a good space.
Posted by Fat Harry
70115
Member since Mar 2005
2404 posts
Posted on 12/3/15 at 1:49 pm to
All you can eat red beans and rice with fried chicken, sweet tea...pork chops...brings back fond memories of the old NOLA.
Posted by tlsu15
Capital of Texas
Member since Aug 2011
10551 posts
Posted on 12/3/15 at 1:53 pm to
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All you can eat red beans and rice with fried chicken, sweet tea...pork chops...


Posted by arseinclarse
Member since Apr 2007
35472 posts
Posted on 12/3/15 at 2:15 pm to
Posted by tlsu15
Capital of Texas
Member since Aug 2011
10551 posts
Posted on 12/3/15 at 2:20 pm to
Damnnnn
Posted by Tiger Attorney
New Orleans
Member since Oct 2007
20108 posts
Posted on 12/3/15 at 2:28 pm to
I was in law school when it was there...it wasn't the same.
Posted by arseinclarse
Member since Apr 2007
35472 posts
Posted on 12/3/15 at 2:33 pm to
Truth.
Posted by Solo
Member since Aug 2008
8257 posts
Posted on 12/3/15 at 3:19 pm to
Love Dunbar's...but I am trying to think of a bigger gut grenade and I can't do it.
Posted by arseinclarse
Member since Apr 2007
35472 posts
Posted on 12/3/15 at 4:42 pm to
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but I am trying to think of a bigger gut grenade and I can't do it.


Silver Moon
Posted by VOR
New Orleans
Member since Apr 2009
69647 posts
Posted on 12/3/15 at 7:08 pm to
If it's close to the original quality, I am down like a mofo. The grandson used to hang out at our house on Laurel way back in the day.
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