Painting New Orleans Blog

Since 1840 Antoine's Restaurant has been a New Orleans institution serving Louisiana Creole Cuisine in the French Quarter.  It is among the oldest family run restaurants in the United States, known for serving several US presidents and Pope John Paul the Second.  It features 14 dining rooms including the Mystery Room, so named for a Prohibition Era practice because it was entered through a door in the ladies restroom where you could exit with a coffee cup filled with booze breaking the blue laws of the time.  With this painting I wanted the exterior to be beautiful, light filled and elegant as befits this one of a kind New Orleans Restaurant.