Dooky Chase's Restaurant

It began in 1939 as a sandwich shop on Claiborne Avenue and moved to Orleans Avenue in 1941 under Emile and Dooky Chase. Their son Edgar Dooky Chase Jr. and his wife Leah took over five years after the move, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation calls her the Queen of Creole Cuisine. Labor leaders ate here during the 1955 Godchaux Sugar Refinery strike, and the lunch counter protesters Jerome Smith, Oretha Castle Haley and Rudy Lombard later planned in the same rooms. A bomb thrown from a car in May 1965 caused minor damage and no injuries.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 0.7 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• Congo Square — 0.8 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 1.1 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• The Cabildo — 1.1 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.

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