District Donuts to replace Company Burger in CBD, more restaurant updates for South Market | Where NOLA Eats

Modifications are underway for the restaurant lineup within the South Market improvement in downtown New Orleans, together with two new additions and one comeback.

The rising native model District Donuts. Sliders. Brew. will open a brand new location right here later this fall within the spot beforehand house to the Firm Burger.

The Company Burger was first opened on Freret Avenue in 2011. This downtown location opened in 2015 however had been shuttered via most the pandemic.

The unique location stays open, serving its signature thin-patty, double-stacked burgers and crisp fries.

“We’re wholly centered on Freret Avenue now,” mentioned Firm Burger founder Adam Biderman.

District Donuts will carry its menu of sliders, creatively wrought donuts and different baked items to the brand new location. This one can even have a full bar along with its common espresso drink choices.

This might be the fifth New Orleans area location for District Donuts which additionally has places in Baton Rouge, in Jackson, Mississippi, and in Las Vegas, the place it’s a part of a meals corridor.

A number of doorways down Girod Avenue, Tava Indian Street Food will open its first full-fledged restaurant location, taking on the spot that was beforehand the deli Aglio (which closed early in 2020).

Chef Manish Patel beforehand ran Tava as a stand within the Auction House Market food hall. It makes a speciality of dosa, the skinny, crisp lentil crepes folded round quite a lot of fillings, and dishes like vindaloo rice bowls and chaat street-food-style snacks. It’s going to have a full bar.

Tava can be slated to open right here later within the fall.

A block away within the improvement’s Customary condo constructing, the fashionable Mexican restaurant Otra Vez is planning to reopen in October for the primary time because the pandemic shutdowns.

Trendy and upscale informal, the restaurant was opened by New York-based chef Akhtar Nawab in 2019 on the nook of Julia Avenue and O’Keefe Avenue.

The Otra Vez identify, “once more” in Spanish, is a reference to Nawab’s Brooklyn restaurant Alta Calidad. Otra Vez continues its fashion of up to date Mexican flavors.

In 2017, Alta Calidad obtained a Michelin “Bib Gourmand” award, an accolade supposed for “good high quality, good worth eating places” which might be more cost effective than the everyday Michelin star candidate.

Otra Vez will add outside seating when it reopens.

South Market has a number of different non-restaurant updates as properly.

The Journal Avenue boutique Sotre Assortment opened an growth within the improvement’s Beacon constructing in August. And Terry Dental Aesthetics, a concierge dental apply, is slated to open within the Customary subsequent spring.