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Front of a two-story pink stucco building on a city street, with green shutters, wrought-iron balconies, two flags over the entrance, and the number 417 on the neighboring building.Photo: dsb nola, CC BY 2.0
Walled courtyard seen from above, with flagstone paving, black wrought-iron tables and chairs, a low curved brick planter, and banana plants and palms along the walls.Photo: Shannon Hobbs, CC BY-SA 2.0
Restaurant dining room at night with tables in white cloths and folded napkins, lit candles, and a wall of windows looking onto a courtyard planted with palms and lit in blue.Photo: Gary J. Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0
A waiter in a black suit and bow tie tilts a pan of flaming food over a tableside burner cart, with a bottle of sherry and dessert dishes beside him.Photo: Kimberly Vardeman, CC BY 2.0
Four diners at a long table set with white linen, water glasses and coffee cups, with a printed card reading "Brennan's Wines by the Glass" and "Breakfast at Brennan's" standing on the table.Photo: Alvin Wong, CC BY 2.0

Brennan's

Historic site, Restaurant and barFrench Quarter, New Orleans
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Brennan's is a working restaurant open to paying guests during posted hours. Staff enforce a dress code and may refuse entry; the dining rooms and upper floors are not open for sightseeing.

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Brennan's is a Creole restaurant at 417 Royal Street in the New Orleans French Quarter, open since 1946 and known as the place where Bananas Foster was invented 1, 2. It serves breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, with the Roost Bar and a courtyard off the dining rooms 3. Visitors commonly describe footsteps and voices in the upstairs rooms when no one is there, doors that move on their own, and a sense of being watched on the stairs and in the courtyard.

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