West End, 1892

by | Feb 12, 2016 | Early 20th Century, Food and Drink, Neighborhoods, West End | 0 comments

Dinner at West End

West End 1892

Bird’s eye view of Mannessier’s and West End Restaurant at West End, New Orleans, Louisiana. (LSM Collection, in the Public Domain)

Fridays in Lent usually bring out all the memories of going to Bruning’s, Fitzgerald’s, and other seafood places out at West End. Here’s a photo from an earlier vintage of West End, 1892. The restaurant on the left is Mannessier’s, on the right, West End Restaurant.

Mannessier's Pavilion at West End, 1900s. (NOPL collection in the Public Domain)

Mannessier’s Pavilion at West End, 1900s. (NOPL collection in the Public Domain)

Mannessier’s Restaurant was owned/operated by the same family that owned Mannessier’s Confectionary at 705 Royal Street, in the French Quarter. They opened the West End location in the late 1880s. They added a pavilion to the property in 1899, which was taken down in 1911.

At this time, West End was more of a day trip from downtown/uptown. You made your way to Canal Street and took the West End streetcar line out to the lakefront.

(h/t WebsitesNewOrleans.com for the pavilion photo)

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