WHEN A RESTAURANT OPENS, it is designed to reflect the tastes of that moment. The menu, ambience, and service styles are all tailored to suit the customers’ expectations. A special few eateries not only get to serve guests for a few years but go on to thrive for generations. In New Orleans’ French Quarter, these are called the “grande dames.” The youngest of those storied restaurants, Brennan’s, turns 75 this year, and it has a lot more to offer than its most famous dish, Bananas Foster.
Owen Edward Brennan launched the restaurant on Bourbon Street in 1946 but soon relocated it to its current space on Royal Street: a 1795 building, constructed by artist Edgar
