Hey Blake,
Have you learnt the historical past of Martin Brothers restaurant on Chef Menteur Freeway? I lived in New Orleans East/Pines Village once I was a child and have nice childhood recollections of the place.
Carlton
Pricey Carlton,
Martin Brothers restaurant operated at 5838 Chef Menteur Freeway for almost 40 years. The sprawling restaurant close to Chef Menteur and Downman Highway was open 24 hours. It was established in 1939 by W. Clinton Martin and his brother-in-law, Louis Miramon.
The restaurant had a really related identify however no connection to Martin’s Poor Boy Restaurant, initially within the French Market and in a while St. Claude Avenue. That restaurant was operated by Bennie and Clovis Martin, who legend has it performed a key position within the reputation of the po-boy.
You may get sandwiches and much more at Martin Brothers on Chef Freeway. In truth, in his 1970 e book “The New Orleans Underground Gourmand,” restaurant critic Richard Collin singled out the significantly good roast beef po-boys at Martin Brothers. He referred to as the restaurant “good, low cost and reliable, with an intensive menu protecting many of the particular New Orleans seafood dishes.”
Throughout its heyday, Martin Brothers additionally operated its personal bakery and butcher store, in addition to a laundry for laundry the uniforms of its staff.
Restaurant critic Tom Fitzmorris remembers Martin Brothers as a preferred spot for drivers touring by way of the realm, significantly since eating choices in that a part of city have been considerably restricted throughout Martin Brothers’ heyday. “It was on U.S. 90, the primary east-west route out and in of city, and anybody heading that means at the least considered stopping. It was particularly busy within the wee hours,” Fitzmorris wrote in his e book with Peggy Scott Laborde, “Misplaced Eating places of New Orleans.”
Martin and Miramon offered the enterprise within the Nineteen Sixties however the restaurant stayed open underneath new administration, till a hearth precipitated in depth broken in 1978.
