{"id":2790,"date":"2013-04-02T15:14:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T19:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2013-04-02T15:14:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T19:14:22","slug":"tujagues-restaurant-grabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/comment\/tujagues-restaurant-grabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tujague&#8217;s Restaurant Up For Grabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2791\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Tujagues-Montage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2791\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2791\" alt=\"Tujague's Restaurant\" src=\"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Tujagues-Montage-268x300.jpg\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Tujagues-Montage-268x300.jpg 268w, http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Tujagues-Montage.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tujague&#8217;s Restaurant<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Once the news of Steven Ladder&#8217;s passing hit the streets of New Orleans, in particular the French\u00a0Quarter,\u00a0 the future and fate of <a title=\"Tujague's Restaurant Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tujaguesrestaurant.com\/index.html\">Tujague&#8217;s Restaurant<\/a> (pronounced TOO-jacks)\u00a0starting flying around like sparks out of a Mississippi Levee bonfire on Christmas Eve. Except for the fact that Ladder, the then owner of the restaurant <a title=\"Steven Ladder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/dining\/index.ssf\/2013\/02\/steven_latter_owner_of_tujague.html\">passed<\/a> away in his sleep on February 18, 2013, and this is not the giving season! So what would become of the coveted gem of a restaurant that has stood for over 150 years as a beacon of culinary refuge holding up some of the best old school New Orleans traditional recipes and menus on the corner at 823 Decatur Street in the French Quarter?<\/p>\n<p>Turns out <a title=\"John Besh Restaurant Group\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chefjohnbesh.com\/\">John Besh<\/a> is making an effort to <a title=\"John Besh makes his move\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/dining\/index.ssf\/2013\/03\/john_besh_expresses_interest_i.html\">claim a stake<\/a> in buying the property from Steven&#8217;s brother Stanford who currently owns the property that the restaurant resides. The rumor mill has expectations of Stanford selling the location to a local T-shirt shop merchant Mike Motwani who runs several of the apparel shops in the French Quarter. As if the area needs another T-Shirt shop!!! The other fly in the\u00a0ointment is other brother Mark Latter owns the restaurant business, while Stanford owns the building.<\/p>\n<p>Reservations and inquiry at the restaurant are at an all time high since news of it&#8217;s possible closure, many New Orleanians are making possibly their last efforts to get plates of Shrimp Remoulade,\u00a0\u00a0Beef Brisket with Creole Sauce, or the ubiquitous Sazerac\u00a0Cocktail from the bar.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is certain, should Tujague&#8217;s shutter and not survive into the next generation of the family business, \u00a0it will be a sad day for New Orleans and a sadder day for those who cherish one of the places that has made New Orleans what it is today.<\/p>\n<p>Get the recipe for Tujague&#8217;s Famous <a title=\"Tujague's Boiled Beef Brisket Recipe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inside-treme-blog.com\/home\/2012\/10\/24\/tujagues-and-the-golden-age-of-new-orleans-dining.html\">Boiled Beef Brisket<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the news of Steven Ladder&#8217;s passing hit the streets of New Orleans, in particular the French\u00a0Quarter,\u00a0 the future and fate of Tujague&#8217;s Restaurant (pronounced TOO-jacks)\u00a0starting flying around like sparks out of a Mississippi Levee bonfire on Christmas Eve. Except for the fact that Ladder, the then owner of the restaurant passed away in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[1954,995,273,1955,1953],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2796,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions\/2796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}