New Orleans & Company
Association / Organization · Lower Garden District ·
Official tourism resource offering destination marketing and sales
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2020 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70130 Get directions
Official tourism resource offering destination marketing and sales
2020 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70130 Get directions
"Renovated by Al Copeland in the late 1990s (he said he’d never read Ann Rice’s book before that) into Straya, the space became a garish, peach-colored restaurant flanked by golden panthers with rhinestone-studded collars that sold sushi and California cuisine. I found that Ann Rice publicly denounced the building as a "monstrosity," and the two traded thousands of dollars’ worth of full-page ads in the Times-Picayune and even faced a libel suit, making the building notorious; by 2001 Copeland had closed Straya and replaced it with Cheesecake Bistro (sans golden panthers)." - Stephanie Carter
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