"After 15 years, the party is ending for Café Adelaide, the Commander’s Family of Restaurants eatery named for Adelaide Brennan, Ella Brennan’s lively sister who never descended her staircase before 3 p.m., wore perfume to bed each night, and whose idea of “casual” was no sequins. The restaurant and the adjoining Swizzle Stick Bar, both in the Loews Hotel, will close their doors on August 24, according to a press release. While the Brennan family celebrated the past in honoring Adelaide’s over-the-top life, it also pushed cocktails into the future. As with its sister restaurant, SoBou, the bartender took a bigger role at Adelaide as the “bar chef.” The idea was that cocktails could pair with food just as well as wine, a concept the family will continue to explore as it celebrates 125 years of Commander’s Palace with a symposium on American cuisine and hospitality in September." - Stephanie Carter
