K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen
Cajun restaurant · French Quarter
416 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70130
Highlights
Legendary Cajun fare, blackened specialties, open kitchens, courtyard dining
Legendary Cajun fare, blackened specialties, open kitchens, courtyard dining
"When Paul Prudhomme tried to transplant his famed K-Paul’s to New York in 1985, he couldn’t make it work: the restaurant first popped up on the Upper West Side and tangled with the health department, and a later Tribeca location that he opened thinking it would be permanent lasted only three years." - Robert Sietsema
"The legendary Cajun restaurant once operated by chef Paul Prudhomme formerly occupied 416 Chartres Street; that former site had been slated for redevelopment but the current boulangerie plan for the address has been canceled." - Clair Lorell
"Galvanizing national attention in 1979 for its bold Creole and Cajun flavors, the restaurant’s chef popularized bringing restaurant taste home by handing diners foil-wrapped packets of his seasoning; that demand led him to found a separate company, Magic Seasoning Blends, in 1983, making him an early pioneer of chef-made pantry products sold directly to consumers." - Naomi Tomky
"K-Pauls Louisiana Kitchen closed for good in July, ending a forty year reign as the French Quarter’s top destination for fine-dining Cajun, as first established by the late, famed chef Paul Prudhomme in 1979." - Clair Lorell
"The groundbreaking restaurant led by chef Paul Prudhomme that enjoyed a roughly 40-year run, it popularized bold, Cajun-inspired flavors and exerted significant influence on American cooking; its decades-long presence made it a pioneering institution whose end marks the close of an era." - Amanda Kludt
