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Mother of Pearl is a gem in more ways than one.

By the end of the meal, dinner at Gautreaus still felt very much like Gautreau’s. As usual, that meant dinner felt special, because of the setting and the service and

In late September Gautreau’s served the final dinner under the ownership that had steered the Uptown classic through three decades. Soon its doors will open again to start a new

Dinner at Gautreau’s can feel like a well-known secret that no one wants to talk about too loudly for fear of somehow changing it.

A New Orleans native named John Currence transformed the college town of Oxford, Miss., into one of the dining capitals of the South. His favorite meal growing up in the Crescent City was breakfast. He remembers having pancakes at his grandmothers house with Louisiana cane syrup, bacon-and-egg sandwiches at Allgoods in Uptown New Orleans with his father, and the occasional Sunday brunch at Commanders Palace in the Garden District.