Qualla: Antoine's https://qualla.com/antoine-s en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/v/r/f/antoine-s-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Antoine's https://qualla.com/antoine-s Antoine's: Introduction https://qualla.com/antoine-s/ Photo credit Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 3.0. "How you like dem erstas?" New Orleans Mayor Robert Maestri barked across the table at President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937, his thick Yat accent baffling the national press corps. Roosevelt had just finished a plate of Oysters Rockefeller at Antoine's, a dish the restaurant invented and has never shared the recipe for. That scene -- a sitting president savoring shellfish at a Creole institution while a local politician mangled English with joyful abandon -- captures everything about Antoine's: 713 rue St. Louis in the French Quarter, where culinary genius and New Orleans eccentricity have coexisted since 1840.

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]]> Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/v/r/f/antoine-s-wp/9vrf-antoines-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Antoine's: A Dynasty Built on Butter and Flame https://qualla.com/antoine-s/ Photo credit Boston Public Library, Public domain. Antoine Alciatore arrived in New Orleans from France in 1840, opening his restaurant at the age of 27. He ran it until his death at 55 in 1875, when his wife Julie Freyss Alciatore took the helm while their son Jules trained in the kitchens of France. Jules returned in 1887 and s...

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]]> Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/v/r/f/antoine-s-wp/9vrf-antoines-a-dynasty-built-on-butter-and-flame.mp3 0:06 2 full Antoine's: Fifteen Rooms and a Wine Alley https://qualla.com/antoine-s/ Photo credit see above, CC BY 2.5. Because the water table in New Orleans sits dangerously high, a conventional wine cellar is impossible. Antoine's solution is a "wine alley" -- an air-conditioned corridor lined floor to ceiling with racks holding up to 25,000 bottles. Guests who linger past closing time are some...

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]]> Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/v/r/f/antoine-s-wp/9vrf-antoines-fifteen-rooms-and-a-wine-alley.mp3 0:06 3 full Antoine's: The Storm and the Slow Comeback https://qualla.com/antoine-s/ Photo credit Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 3.0. When Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005, the French Quarter's elevation spared it from the catastrophic flooding that devastated most of New Orleans. Antoine's was not so lucky with wind. The hurricane tore part of the roof off and collapsed a section of exterior wall. Worse...

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]]> Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/v/r/f/antoine-s-wp/9vrf-antoines-the-storm-and-the-slow-comeback.mp3 0:06 4 full Antoine's: The Table Where History Sits Down https://qualla.com/antoine-s/ Photo credit Elisa.rolle, CC BY-SA 3.0. Antoine's has fed multiple U.S. presidents and once hosted Pope John Paul II. Oliver Stone filmed two scenes from his 1991 movie JFK in the restaurant, with Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison eating lunch in the Large Annex Room while the real maitre d'hotel, Henri Alciatore -- a dire...

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