City Park’s role as urban oasis has been on shining display through the coronavirus crisis as people seek some restorative outdoor time. Two of the park’s newest amenities have returned for visitors when they need refreshment of a different kind.
The City Park location of Café du Monde has reopened, serving beignets and coffee drinks from its takeout window.
And Acorn, the restaurant from Dickie Brennan & Co., is back with takeout, aimed at people picnicking in the park or getting food for home.
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City Park has kept its open spaces accessible to the public for “passive solitary recreation use only.” Most of its attractions and visitor services are shut down, including playgrounds, workout areas and restrooms. The park's Bayou Oaks golf complex is open.
The two eateries here reopened for takeout service only. Both debuted last summer and had been shuttered since mid-March.
Customers queue up for the takeout window at Cafe du Monde in City Park while the rest of the beignet parlor and coffee shop remains closed during coronavirus shutdowns.
Café du Monde’s historic French Market location remains closed, though it still operates the drive-thru at its Metairie shop, at 4700 Veterans Blvd. (6 a.m.-3 p.m. daily).
The City Park location, in the Timken Center (a.k.a. the Casino Building), now has walk-up service only (8 a.m.-5 p.m. daily). The café’s normal menu of beignets, hot, iced and frozen café au lait and other beverage is available.
Beignets and a frozen cafe au lait at Cafe du Monde in City Park, where the walk-up takeout window is open while the cafe remains closed during coronavirus shutdowns.
The café itself is still boarded up. On the covered patio, once filled with tables, tape now marks off six-foot intervals as a guide for social distancing measures. On a balmy recent morning, while grads and prides posed for photos by oaks and on foot bridges, a few couples and families with young kids sidled up for bags of beignets.
The new Louisiana Children’s Museum at City Park was designed to fit snugly amid the live oaks and palms at the edge of a lagoon. The restaurant Acorn is at the corner jutting over the water.
Acorn was developed in conjunction with the new Louisiana Children’s Museum, which opened last summer. The museum remains closed, but the restaurant was designed to operate independently, concieved as a family-friendly amenity for park visitors and for the nearby neighborhoods.
A double cheeseburger at Acorn, the Dickie Brennan & Co. restaurant in City Park, shown here as normally served. The restaurant reopened for takeout only on May 7.
With a broad covered deck jutting over a lagoon, Acorn is well situated for the time when outdoor meals are again allowed at New Orleans restaurants (outdoor tables are permitted by the state, but still restricted by the city).
So for now, Acorn is set up for curbside service from a tented station in the museum parking lot.
Pizza at Acorn at the Louisiana Children's Museum in City Park in New Orleans, La. Tuesday, shown as served Nov. 5, 2019.
The menu has pizza (whole and by the slice), burgers (meat or vegan) and sandwiches, entrée salads and a kids menu (grilled cheese, burgers and hot dogs, and fried or grilled chicken tenders). If you’re good, there you can get cookies, brownies and ice pops from Pop Brothers. If you’re good and you're of age, you can also get beer and bottles of wine, starting at $10.
Acorn also plans to serve “charcuterie rolls,” a selection of cured meats, meat and extras all arranged on butcher paper that’s rolled up for easy picnic pickup.
Acorn return marks the second opening for restaurateur Dickie Brennan’s group, following the April launch of the Commissary, a new concept for prepared meals and DIY dinner kits in the Lower Garden District.
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