The Brains Behind New Orleans’ Most Famous Restaurant Are Selling Picnic Food
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Plenty of chefs are opening casual restaurants, but it’s a dramatic move for the chef and co-owner of Commander’s Palace in New Orleans. Still, Picnic Provisions and Whiskey had the blessing of the late restaurant matriarch Ella Brennan.
Of the hundreds of restaurants in New Orleans, Commander’s Palace sits at the very top, at least according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, which recently named it the city’s best restaurant.
To reach Commander’s, you drive through the elegant Garden District, pass an intriguing cemetery, and arrive under the awning of the iconic aqua and white building, where jackets are required and jeans are discouraged.
Two and a half miles away, at the corner of Washington and Magazine Streets, a newly opened place tells a completely different story. Picnic Provisions and Whiskey doesn’t care what you’re wearing, and you’re likely to step past people playing corn hole outside the door.
Nevertheless, there’s a direct link between them. Ti Adelaide Martin is co-proprietor of both, and James Beard Award winning chef Tory McPhail is in charge of the menus.
Picnic Provisions’ third participant is Darryl Reginelli, co-founder of Reginelli’s, which has eight casual pizza restaur
