🦐 What we know about Lagniappe, the NOLA-style restaurant anchoring the renovated Coliseum

Tomorrow is the Soul of the Southside Festival, a day-long Juneteenth celebration in downtown Longfellow. Among many other goings-on, the festival will serve as the grand reopening of the Coliseum building, which has been fully renovated after years of decline and extensive damage in 2020.

We've long heard that the team behind Du Nord Social Spirits will be opening a restaurant and cocktail room on the ground floor, but details have generally been sparse. Now, after a few recent interviews in the local press, plus a brief peek last month during the Doors Open festival, a better picture has begun to emerge about the pair of businesses scheduled to open in August. Here’s what we know so far:  

Background 

Du Nord opened in Longfellow as the nation’s first Black-owned distillery in 2013 and, after lobbying to get microdistilleries the same opportunities to sell on-site as microbreweries got in 2014, became the city's first distillery-owned cocktail room in 2015.