Whatever happened to Stella! in New Orleans

Not much of a market for restaurants at that price point in New Orleans IMO. There are a ton of other New Orleans restaurants that one could have a great meal at a lower price. His restaurant Stanley is still open.

The owner was a crook and a piece of shite and it finally caught up with him is what I've heard over and over.

Never got her groove back

Woo’ed some women there including my wife... we still go to Stanley’s every time we’re in town

Friend,

I remember going there in the summer of 2007 with a date and Mother. The three of us actually went to Canal Place first because I knew she loved charm brackets. I had recently seen Mignon Faget’s latest collection of charm brackets in the flyer Mother received a few weeks earlier. I surprised her getting her a silver alligator. She loved it, or at least acted like it. Mother bought some of those horrid fleur de lis tumblers that were so popular, forcing me to carry the bag all the way across the Quarter to Stella! I believe it was her plan to prevent me from holding hands with my date. It worked.

That meal was probably my twentieth or so visit. A new item found its way to the menu and Scott told us we had to try it. I had some misgivings but before I knew it he had brought me a small bowl of shark fin soup. It was, I believe supposed to be served with sea bass, but he had just wanted me to try it. I did and found it was okay. It tasted like seafood broth, nothing special. I do not understand why it is considered a delicacy. This was around the age of social media only being used by college kids. A year or so later, when it became more widespread, word got out that he was serving shark fin soup, causing quite the uproar. After that, Stella! stopped serving it. No loss to the restaurant.

Yours,
TulaneLSU

Friend,

Although I had saved much of my earnings from my time as a street car conductor in the early to mid 2000s, one of the greatest times of my life, I could not afford Stella! without some parental assistance. Besides, the only purpose of dating is to find a suitable spouse. Since your spouse will become part of the family, it is not an unreasonable or illogical conclusion to decide to bring family on dates with you. To leave family out of the equation, I would argue, is to set yourself up for disaster. Perhaps there would be far more successful relationships and far fewer aimless relationships if the focus on early dates was getting to know each other and each other’s families rather than the fornication which has become acceptable is our broken culture.

Yours,
TulaneLSU

Friend,

You are single and your only friend is "Mother" for a reason. Instead of maybe meeting a nice woman, maybe settling down and moving out of "Mother"s basement, you effectively ran away any woman you may have had a chance with.

Yours,
Rowbear1922

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ate there twice, it was definitely very good, I guess the margins just weren't there