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Posted on 11/12/18 at 11:24 am to RedPop4
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I passed it on Magazine Street coming from Lafayette Cemetery on All Saints' Day. I saw the name and the red/orange background in the "branding" and immediately thought of the old Daddy Warbucks character in Little Orphan Annie/Annie the musical.
I had assumed it was some sort of chain I hadn't heard of.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 11:24 am to t00f
I went for the soft opening and could not recommend it. The food didn’t impress other than my entree, and we ordered about 10 items.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 11:25 am to Lakeboy7
quote:I'll take the under
Over under 6 months.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 11:28 am to Neauxla
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I went for the soft opening and could not recommend it. The food didn’t impress other than my entree, and we ordered about 10 items.
That's disappointing.
However, I usually give a place 2 months or so to find their footing. Soft openings are soft openings for a reason.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 11:30 am to Fun Bunch
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I went for the soft opening and could not recommend it. The food didn’t impress other than my entree, and we ordered about 10 items.
That's disappointing.
However, I usually give a place 2 months or so to find their footing. Soft openings are soft openings for a reason.
I'm guessing the fact that there's no menu to be found anywhere online means there's still a good bit of tweaking going on here.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 11:30 am to Y.A. Tittle
quote:Now that you mention it...
I had assumed it was some sort of chain I hadn't heard of.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 11:42 am to Neauxla
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I went for the soft opening and could not recommend it.
wow! So what did you like?
Posted on 11/12/18 at 12:00 pm to NOFOX
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Guarantee you they have focus grouped the crap out of this and forcing the matter will gain them more attention and customers than it loses.
This would be interesting to see.
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Frankly, the customers it turns off, they probably do not care about. They want that Turkey & the Wolf PR and customer base.
Who do you think makes up T&W customer base and how much disposable money do they have to disperse to different eclectic ,"DGAF" food spots? Id venture to guess they get a lot of tourists, which is already a very competitive market. Tulane/Loyola kids. Where do locals rank in the customer pool?
Not saying your wrong, it's just an interesting subject to me.
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Do the casual, high end nostalgia schtick half arse to please everyone and you end up with a boring iteration like picnic provisions.
Not advocating for that. I was saying maybe just pick one of Wu Tang blaring on the speakers or loud murals, to start
Posted on 11/12/18 at 12:09 pm to t00f
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Chef Pulsinelli’s menu and décor harness the essence of 90s rap, skateboarding, and hip-hop culture
Turkey and the Wolf: we're the douchiest restaurant in NOLA
Warbucks: hold my skateboard
Nothing better than a white guy with a restaurant dedicated to "hip hop culture".
Posted on 11/12/18 at 1:45 pm to t00f
I work right by it so will go eventually. A few people I know that went to the friends and family opening were raving about the simple burger.
As with everything that's new that opens here, I'll probably wait a month or two to give it a shot. Work out those rap and skateboard culture kinks.
As with everything that's new that opens here, I'll probably wait a month or two to give it a shot. Work out those rap and skateboard culture kinks.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 2:17 pm to GynoSandberg
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Who do you think makes up T&W customer base and how much disposable money do they have to disperse to different eclectic ,"DGAF" food spots? Id venture to guess they get a lot of tourists, which is already a very competitive market. Tulane/Loyola kids. Where do locals rank in the customer pool?
Not saying your wrong, it's just an interesting subject to me.
The original T&W crowd was a lot of industry folks. T&W won popularity with influential restaurant folks and the circles they run in as well as people who generally follow the industry and know when new restaurants are opening and the chefs' backgrounds.
I think they are targeting these same people and the hipper crowd who dedicate more money to eating out, will spread the word on social media for free, and pay up for drinks. I don't think they care much about enticing a family of 5 from Old Metry or Bill and Jane from Iowa in town for a conference. Get the cool kids and the press with you first, others will eventually follow.
Look at the number of people here who still constantly bash T&W for their schtick and "don't get it". They are killing it.
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Not advocating for that. I was saying maybe just pick one of Wu Tang blaring on the speakers or loud murals, to start
Oh yeah, the "we're cool like T&W, look at us" blitzkrieg is completely over the top. I am sure some marketing person directed them overboard in crafting the image. They could have done it in a much more natural way. There is a broad middle ground between this and N7 style marketing minimalism. I doubt it will matter much in the end though.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 7:23 am to t00f
I think my tortellini with lamb ragu was the best thing.
The steak frites was pretty good but it was almost braised like in texture.
The fries are meh.
Corn dog is a corn dog with lime aoli on it.
Hot dog is hot dog
(To be fair I hate hot dogs)
Fois Gras burger is just too decadent
Red beans and smoked octopus sounded weird but not a bad combo but the beans were nothing special
Mac n cheese was pretty good
Oxtail tater tots were bland and lacking in oxtail
Shrimp rings were pulverized shrimp pressed into rings and deep fried. If not for the sauce, woulda been meh
They were out of twinkies so we got once cream sandwiches. The cookies were too hard IMO. The ones we got that were a little softer were better but still nothing I would order again.
The only dishes I would order again would be the tortellini and steak. And if the mac n cheese was at a bbq place, sure.
To me, the place serves carnival food and then fancy American fare, and doesn’t even do a great job of it. I didn’t think anything really went together. It was just a hey, I like these individual dishes, lemme make a menu out of them.
The steak frites was pretty good but it was almost braised like in texture.
The fries are meh.
Corn dog is a corn dog with lime aoli on it.
Hot dog is hot dog
(To be fair I hate hot dogs)
Fois Gras burger is just too decadent
Red beans and smoked octopus sounded weird but not a bad combo but the beans were nothing special
Mac n cheese was pretty good
Oxtail tater tots were bland and lacking in oxtail
Shrimp rings were pulverized shrimp pressed into rings and deep fried. If not for the sauce, woulda been meh
They were out of twinkies so we got once cream sandwiches. The cookies were too hard IMO. The ones we got that were a little softer were better but still nothing I would order again.
The only dishes I would order again would be the tortellini and steak. And if the mac n cheese was at a bbq place, sure.
To me, the place serves carnival food and then fancy American fare, and doesn’t even do a great job of it. I didn’t think anything really went together. It was just a hey, I like these individual dishes, lemme make a menu out of them.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 7:26 am to NOFOX
I see your argument, but at least T&W puts out good food. I went with a group of 4 and I don’t think any of us would go back. And my friend knows the manager.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 7:27 am to t00f
Posted on 11/13/18 at 7:41 am to NOFOX
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Do the casual, high end nostalgia schtick half arse to please everyone and you end up with a boring iteration like picnic provisions.
Yep. Matty Mathesons cookbook is one of the best selling books in the country right now and 90% of it is extremely advanced recipes using ingredients most people can’t even access. Why? Because people eat his personality up. That punk foodie type of brand seems to be doing well, and now is probably the best time for this restaurant to be doing what it is.
I don’t see why this restaurant wouldn’t attract any of the same people who like trying new places. We could speculate that they won’t attract old folks who stick to the same few places for the last 20 years, but that would be the case even if they WERENT skate themed.
Edit - I know nothing about this restaurant and have no idea if it’s good or not. Just don’t know that I’d agree that the over the top theme would directly cause failure on its own.
This post was edited on 11/13/18 at 7:47 am
Posted on 11/13/18 at 8:02 am to Neauxla
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Neauxla
thanks for the update.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:05 am to Neauxla
Its weird to me when people judge a restaurant on a soft opening.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:24 am to TypoKnig
That article is overflowing with butthurt. Was Chelsea Brasted unhappy that the minority female leadership of BRG approved the concept? Does she have a problem with rap music being played in any other New Orleans restaurants?
And this line:
is the worst and solely meant to implicate something that doesn't exist.
And this line:
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Pulsinelli himself hasn’t been publicly accused of any sexual misconduct.
is the worst and solely meant to implicate something that doesn't exist.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:31 am to Neauxla
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I see your argument, but at least T&W puts out good food. I went with a group of 4 and I don’t think any of us would go back. And my friend knows the manager.
I’m confident the food will work itself out. Pulsinelli is a good chef. He was executive chef at Domenica and August for a decade. Soft openings are for figuring things out. I went to Mopho’s soft opening and it was bad.
Have any of the recent August alums opened a bad restaurant?
Coquette, Domenica, Shaya, Mopho, Maypop...Warbucks. I guess root/square root failed, but Lopez wasn’t an executive chef.
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