Cuvee?

[sanglier]

Another board has a thread saying Cuvee isn't answering their phone, that there are "kitchen problems" that will keep them closed for the time being...blah blah. Anyone have any hard news on Cuvee's status?

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Cuvee Restaurant
322 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70130

[N.O.Food]

Apparently, they're closing. Bummer.

http://www.nola.com/dining/index.ssf/...

[JazzyB]

Should open a Dakota New Orleans in the space.

[kibbles]

yeah bummer is right. i call Dakota to see what was up, they said they havent decided what to do w/ the space yet, may open something else there.

man, lots of nasty critters on the nola.com story. wonder whats up w/ them...

[Bill Hunt]

It WILL be interesting to see what goes in there. It seems to be both a good location, and a great venue. Our one visit was marred by some mis-steps, and the kitchen just could not quite make good. Everything that was good, was very good, but then the mis-steps kept coming. Only one trip, so it could have just been a bad night?

Hope that someone does reopen the space, and does a nice job.

Hunt

[jenn2083]

it's been on tom fitzmorris' talk food board for several days

[rabeezbabee]

Out of curiosity, what was the original board that mentioned this?

[Hershey Bomar]

They called me today and canceled my NYE reservation. They also said that they will be closed for the duration of the Christmas holiday due to kitchen and staffing troubles.

[CharlieH]

I thought the Groupon offering was unusual.

[FoodChic]

You're right. Makes perfect sense now.

[noradeirdre]

What, did they offer to refund the Groupon? We used ours back in October...

[CharlieH]

Have you seen any other high end restaurants willing to give away dinners at half price?

[BayouTeche]

The only one I can think of is Bistro at Maison de Ville.

[noradeirdre]

Heh, we didn't pay half price. We got $30 off our meal, which was a relatively insignificant portion of the final bill. It got us into the place, they got a pretty good amount of money out of us once we got there, and I really liked it.

I think it was a win for them!

So, yeah, we also got the Bistro at the Maison de Ville. Does that mean it's in trouble too?

Dock & Jenny's done a couple deals as well. (set a record for most Living Social Deals sold, IIRC) I dunno how that works on your theory.

Oh yeah, also Eiffel Society.

There are so many places here, I don't see why it's an automatic ding or death knoll for a place for providing an incentive to check out an establishment.

<shrug> but what do I know.