The French Quarter restaurant Eat opened in the tumultuous year after Hurricane Katrina, part of a new wave of homegrown businesses to start up as the city rebuilt. It has now closed, but another restaurant is preparing to open in its place.
Wakin’ Bakin’, the exquisitely-named breakfast spot with locations in Mid-City and Uptown, is slated to open here in late summer. Renovation work is now underway inside the small corner spot at Dauphine and Dumaine streets.
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This new Wakin’ Bakin’ will serve a similar menu as the others, with breakfast burritos and tacos, bowls and parfaits, sweet pancakes and savory sourdough pancakes, vegan dishes and traditional bacon-egg-and-biscuit breakfast plates.
Proprietor Conrad Chura said he’s planning to add some new facets tailored for the foot traffic of the French Quarter location.
One will be an "express menu" and counter for walk-up service and breakfast on the go, for items like breakfast burritos. The new restaurant will also have a frozen drink machine for icy specialty coffees.
Like its predecessor Eat, the restaurant will not have a liquor license.
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While brunch spots are abundant in the French Quarter, this Wakin’ Bakin’ will add a more straight-ahead, diner-style breakfast option, operating 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“I think it’s a great location for what we do,” Chura said. “You want to meet the needs of the neighborhood around you.”
Pancrepes and pork, a breakfast combo of crepelike thin pancakes and breakfast sausage, is a specialty at Wakin' Bakin' in New Orleans.
He said it may also open one night per week for special dinners that could have different themes or highlight different ideas and talent week to week.
Wakin’ Bakin’ got its start as a takeout and delivery operation for breakfast plates, based in the tavern kitchen at the Holy Ground Irish Pub (3340 Canal St.) in Mid-City. A year later it had a stand-alone location not far away at 4408 Banks St., taking over what was originally the breakfast spot Huevos.
People gather outside Wakin' Bakin' on Banks Street in New Orleans on Saturday, July 25, 2020.
In late 2018, a second Wakin’ Bakin’ opened at 3625 Prytania St., in the former Coulis, which for two decades prior had been home to a beloved Uptown diner called the Bluebird Café.
The new French Quarter location, at 900 Dumaine St., had been a café called the Quarter Scene from 1981 until Hurricane Katrina.
Jarred Zeringue opened Eat here as his first restaurant, serving a menu of Southern and Creole dishes like shrimp and grits, fried catfish with white beans and poached eggs over fried green tomatoes.
More recently, he took over Wayne Jacob’s Smokehouse, one of the old-school Louisiana butcher shops famous for its andouille sausage in LaPlace. It’s one of the many stops on the Andouille Trail, a network of River Parishes businesses serving traditional flavors.
He had been working more of Wayne Jacob's smoky butcher shop products into the Eat menu lately, especially at brunch. But the lack of a liquor license had always been a limitation for the French Quarter restaurant, and when its lease came due this year Zeringue said he came to the conclusion that Eat had run its course.
Zeringue also has a cookbook scheduled for release next fall.
Wakin’ Bakin’
900 Dumaine St.
Projected opening late summer 2021
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