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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

5Mother's Restaurant Poydras Tchoupitoulas New Orleans www.mothersrestaurant.net

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5Mother's Restaurant Poydras Tchoupitoulas New Orleans www.mothersrestaurant.net

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5Mother's Restaurant Poydras Tchoupitoulas New Orleans www.mothersrestaurant.net

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4Mother's Restaurant Poydras Tchoupitoulas New Orleans www.mothersrestaurant.net

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4Mother's Restaurant Poydras Tchoupitoulas New Orleans www.mothersrestaurant.net

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4Mother's Restaurant Poydras Tchoupitoulas New Orleans www.mothersrestaurant.net

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3Mother's Restaurant Poydras Tchoupitoulas New Orleans www.mothersrestaurant.net

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3Mother's Restaurant Poydras Tchoupitoulas New Orleans www.mothersrestaurant.net

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3Mother's Restaurant Poydras Tchoupitoulas New Orleans www.mothersrestaurant.net

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2Mother's Restaurant Poydras Tchoupitoulas New Orleans www.mothersrestaurant.net

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2Mother's Restaurant Poydras Tchoupitoulas New Orleans www.mothersrestaurant.net

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2Mother's Restaurant Poydras Tchoupitoulas New Orleans www.mothersrestaurant.net

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Mother's Restaurant Poydras Tchoupitoulas New Orleans www.mothersrestaurant.net

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Mother's Restaurant Poydras Tchoupitoulas New Orleans www.mothersrestaurant.net

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'Scrap House' by Sally Heller 2008 at the Mississippi Heritage Park New Orleans'

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'Scrap House' by Sally Heller 2008 at the Mississippi Heritage Park New Orleans'

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'Scrap House' by Sally Heller 2008 at the Mississippi Heritage Park New Orleans'

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Wyland 1997 at the New Orleans Earnest N. Morial Convention Center NOLA

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Wyland 1997 at the New Orleans Earnest N. Morial Convention Center NOLA

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Wyland 1997 at the New Orleans Earnest N. Morial Convention Center NOLA

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"Mother's Restaurant" in New Orleans, Louisiana. It's a Marine Corps thing.


"Mother's Restaurant" in New Orleans, Louisiana. It's a Marine Corps thing. Semper Fi. We loved it. Convenient to downtown. We walked everywhere. The food was great. The service was good and the place had real character. I felt like we part of history. 26Mar2014





  

 

Mother’s restaurant New Orleans Louisiana
401 Poydras St
New Orleans, Louisiana
(504) 523-9656
Authentic N'Awlins home-style cooking since 1938. The Amato family welcomes you for a taste of tradition.


 

  

Mother’s Restaurant opened its doors in 1938 on Poydras Street’s “Restaurant Row”, situated between a thriving waterfront and the courthouse. Owners Simon and Mary (Mother) Landry and his large family cooked up po’ boys for lines of longshoremen and laborers, newspapermen and attorneys.


During and after World War II, Mother’s became a local hang-out for “the few and the proud” – the U.S. Marine Corps. The Marine spirit was in the family – five of the seven Landry children (five sons and two daughters) joined the Marine Corps. Francis Landry was the first woman in Louisiana to be accepted into the Corps. This special association with the Marines earned Mother’s the title of “TUN Tavern New Orleans” in the late ’60s. The original TUN tavern was the official birthplace of the Marines during the Revolutionary War.


Mother’s is not just a part of this great American tradition, but also stands as a uniquely New Orleans institution. The likes of other family-owned local businesses such as D.H. Holmes Department Stores, K&B Drug Stores, MacKenzie’s Bakery, and Werlein’s Music have all departed from the landscape, while Mother’s Restaurant has not only remained almost exactly the same, but has flourished.


In 1986, the Jerry and John Amato bought Mother’s from the Landry’s sons Jacques and Eddie. With the changing of the guard, many things were added but nothing, fortunately, lost. Jerry Amato, chef and proprietor, doubled the already dizzying size of the menu. Now traditional New Orleans dishes like jambalaya and Shrimp Creole line-up next to the po’ boys that Mother’s made famous, such as the Ferdi Special and the debris po-boy (for a history of these and other sandwiches on the Fun Facts page). Breakfast, lunch and dinner items are cooked with fresh ingredients and bold, delicious flavor.


You will still see longshoremen in boots and you’ll find plenty of locals rubbing elbows in line with visitors, veterans, politicians and movie stars. Mother’s remains true to its working class origins. Nobody gets treated better (or worse) than anybody else. As Jerry Amato says, “Everybody gets fed. Everybody comes back.”


So go ahead, join ranks with the not-so-few, but intensely proud – the Mother’s crowd.

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The National WWII Museum aviation pavilion Boeing Center New Orleans Louisiana

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The National WWII Museum aviation pavilion Boeing Center New Orleans Louisiana

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The National WWII Museum aviation pavilion Boeing Center New Orleans Louisiana

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The Boeing Center US Freedom Pavilion World War II Museum New Orleans Louisiana

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The Boeing Center US Freedom Pavilion World War II Museum New Orleans Louisiana

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