For everything that’s changed through the pandemic, New Orleans food pros keep pursuing new ideas and new projects, and New Orleans food lovers have been following them with avid interest.
Two projects from a pair of well-regarded names in the field will bring more to the table in 2021. Here’s what’s in store:
Seafood Sally's
Raw oysters with a seasonal peach vinaigrette at Marjie's Grill in New Orleans.
A new restaurant taking shape on Oak Street will have a wide array of Gulf seafood, wine and cocktails to match both the selection and the season and, because Marcus Jacobs and Caitlin Carney are at the helm, a dash of Vietnamese fish sauce and chili butter for good measure.
Seafood Sally’s is slated to open in early spring at 8400 Oak St., in the former home of La Casita.
It will be the second restaurant from Jacobs and Carney, the couple who run Marjie’s Grill.
That first restaurant has carved its own niche with its Southeast Asia-meets-Deep South approach. For Seafood Sally’s, they’re out to create a family-friendly New Orleans seafood restaurant that adds a wider range of flavors and influences to the familiar template.
Advocate photo by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee -- Caitlin Carney and chef Marcus Jacobs opened their Mid-City restaurant Marjie's Grill late in 2016, bringing a different lens to familiar flavors.
“What we've tried to do with Marjie's Grill, and what we want to do with this, is create a neighborhood joint — a place where you feel comfortable going anytime,” said Carney.
The menu will be arranged by the fin fish and seasonal shellfish on hand that day, alongside a variety of preparations available for them.
For the boiled seafood, one of those options will be a coating of chili butter, based on the popular Viet-Cajun style of boiled seafood.
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There will be a raw bar, and oysters on the half shell will hit the grill, too. Shrimp cocktail, crab cakes and crab claws will start things off. Wednesdays will bring all-you-can-eat boiled crabs.
Caitlin and Jacobs are counting on the broad appeal of local seafood to draw people from the diverse neighborhoods that intersect in this area. They want to make a restaurant that feels accessible to all.
To create the cocktail list, they’re partnering with Turning Tables, a local program working to increase inclusion for people of color in the bar and spirits business.
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They’re also working in lessons from operating Marjie’s Grill through the pandemic thus far, including a lot of outdoor seating and a takeout-friendly menu.
Seafood Sally’s will take over an old house that was long ago converted to a restaurant, and has seen many come and go (La Casita opened here in 2016 and closed in the pandemic). It still retains the feel of a home between its porch, patio and various rooms. Renovations will expand the bar and add a dedicated raw bar. Carney is eager to put their stamp on the old place.
“We like to have fun at the restaurant. We're creative spirits, and we're going to bring that into Seafood Sally's too,” she said.
Marjie’s Grill has hosted pop-up seafood boils as the new project has come together, and Jacobs expects to do more of these in the months ahead as Seafood Sally’s progresses.
The forthcoming restaurant already shares one trait with Marjie's Grill in its name. Marjie's was named in honor of Carney's mother. Sally's is named for Jacobs' grandmother.
Seafood Sally’s
8400 Oak St.
Projected opening: spring 2021
340 S. Broad St., 504-603-2234
Thu.-Mon., 4-9:30 p.m.
Leo's Bread
Slices of semolina loaf from Leo's Bread, a bakery in New Orleans.
New Orleans baker Kate Heller started Leo’s Bread by selling her handmade loaves from the back of her station wagon. Soon, she’ll be opening the doors to a new storefront location for Leo’s Bread, right across the street from where those early pop-ups were held.
A bakery café for Leo’s Bread is taking shape at 2438 Bell St., a corner spot adjacent to Bayou Road. Heller expects to open this winter.
The location is a former sheet metal shop with big garage doors where she can wheel in ovens and new baking equipment. Up front, the cafe will have a counter filled with bagels and croissants, semolina and sourdough loaves, focaccia, sandwiches, fresh juice and coffee.
A bagel with scallion cream cheese from Leo's Bread at the Crescent City Farmers Market.
“I always wanted a neighborhood bakery, especially in the neighborhood I live in,” said Heller. “This industry is so much work, you have to like what you do. To me, a lot of that has to do with the people you meet and interact with, and that’s what a neighborhood bakery brings.”
Today, Leo’s Bread is best known as a vendor at the Crescent City Farmers Market. At the Uptown market on Tuesdays, Keller sets up baskets of baked goods and dresses up her chewy, crusty bagels with hefty schmears of cream cheese.
She said she’ll continue to do the Tuesday markets after Leo’s Bread opens across town.
Baker Kate Heller runs Leo's Bread. She was photographed on Oct. 25, 2017.(Photo by Todd A. Price)
The new location is across the street from Pagoda Café, which hosted early pop-ups for Leo’s Bread. Pagoda Café has been closed since March when the pandemic arrived; owner Shana Sassoon, who said she was excited for the Leo’s Bread plans, is now evaluating options for Pagoda Café’s future.
From its start in 2014, Leo’s Bread began supplying small neighborhood restaurants, including the nearby 1000 Figs. Soon, Keller partnered with 1000 Figs proprietors Theresa Galli and Gavin Cady to open Echo's, an excellent wood-fire pizzeria in Mid-City. Last year, they closed and sold the business, which became a second location of Pizza Domenica.
Heller had been planning this new storefront for Leo’s Bread before the pandemic. After postponing its development through the intervening months, she decided it was time to move forward. Leo’s Bread has reached the point where it needs its own dedicated space, she explained.
“We’ll be able to expand everything we’re doing now,” Heller said. “More types of croissants, different types of bagels, more sandwiches. It’s exciting.”
2438 Bell St., projected to open winter 2021
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