By KEVIN McGILL
FILE – In this June 28, 2013, file photo, security guards stand in front of the now-closed Brennan’s Restaurant in New Orleans. Brennan’s Restaurant: “A New Orleans Tradition Since 1946,” as the website brags, is closed, the latest shoe to fall in 40 years of headline-grabbing family discord and costly litigation over matters of control, money and use of the family name at some of the establishments that trace their lineage to Owen Sr. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
Battle For Brennans
This Oct. 22, 2013 photo, Ralph Brennan, poses for a photo in New Orleans. The legacy of 1940s-era restaurant owner Owen E. Brennan Sr. is evident throughout New Orleans’ historic French Quarter in the form of restaurants run by members of his family, or by chefs who became famous at those restaurants. But the building from which the Brennan’s empire was launched has closed, amid legal battles among family members, a legacy of food and feuding that dates back to the early 1970s. Brennan’s owners lost their historic building in the spring at a foreclosure sale. The new owner is their cousin, Ralph Brennan. Ralph says he was unable to reach a lease agreement with his cousins to save the original. His hope now is to open a new restaurant by spring that will, in his words, “be representative of the family.” (AP Photo/Sean Gardner)
Battle For Brennans
This Oct. 22, 2013 photo, Ralph Brennan, poses for a photo in New Orleans. The legacy of 1940s-era restaurant owner Owen E. Brennan Sr. is evident throughout New Orleans’ historic French Quarter in the form of restaurants run by members of his family, or by chefs who became famous at those restaurants. But the building from which the Brennan’s empire was launched has closed, amid legal battles among family members, a legacy of food and feuding that dates back to the early 1970s. Brennan’s owners lost their historic building in the spring at a foreclosure sale. The new owner is their cousin, Ralph Brennan. Ralph says he was unable to reach a lease agreement with his cousins to save the original. His hope now is to open a new restaurant by spring that will, in his words, “be representative of the family.” (AP Photo/Sean Gardner)
Battle For Brennans
This Oct. 22, 2013 photo, Ralph Brennan, poses for a photo in New Orleans. The legacy of 1940s-era restaurant owner Owen E. Brennan Sr. is evident throughout New Orleans’ historic French Quarter in the form of restaurants run by members of his family, or by chefs who became famous at those restaurants. But the building from which the Brennan’s empire was launched has closed, amid legal battles among family members, a legacy of food and feuding that dates back to the early 1970s. Brennan’s owners lost their historic building in the spring at a foreclosure sale. The new owner is their cousin, Ralph Brennan. Ralph says he was unable to reach a lease agreement with his cousins to save the original. His hope now is to open a new restaurant by spring that will, in his words, “be representative of the family.” (AP Photo/Sean Gardner)
Battle For Brennans
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, pedestrians stroll past the exterior of the building that used to house the famed Brennan’s Restaurant in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Brennan’s Restaurant: “A New Orleans Tradition Since 1946,” as the website brags, is closed, the latest shoe to fall in 40 years of headline-grabbing family discord and costly litigation over matters of control, money and use of the family name at some of the establishments that trace their lineage to Owen Sr. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Battle For Brennans
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, fencing blocks the exterior of the building that used to house famed Brennan’s Restaurant in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Brennan’s Restaurant: “A New Orleans Tradition Since 1946,” as the website brags, is closed, the latest shoe to fall in 40 years of headline-grabbing family discord and costly litigation over matters of control, money and use of the family name at some of the establishments that trace their lineage to Owen Sr. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Battle For Brennans
FILE – In this June 28, 2013, file photo, Paige Wright, Renee Bona, Danniell Homan, Maribel Sems, left to right, of Little Rock, Ark., arrive to eat at Brennan’s Restaurant in New Orleans, only to find it closed. Brennan’s Restaurant: “A New Orleans Tradition Since 1946,” as the website brags, is closed, the latest shoe to fall in 40 years of headline-grabbing family discord and costly litigation over matters of control, money and use of the family name at some of the establishments that trace their lineage to Owen Sr. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The legacy of 1940s-era restaurant owner Owen E. Brennan Sr. is evident throughout New Orleans’ historic French Quarter in the form of restaurants run by members of his family — or by chefs who became famous at those restaurants.
But the building from which the Brennan’s empire was launched has closed, amid legal battles among family members, a legacy of food and feuding that dates back to the early 1970s.
Brennan’s owners lost their historic building in the spring at a foreclosure sale. The new owner is their cousin, Ralph Brennan. Ralph says he was unable to reach a lease agreement with his cousins to save the original. His hope now is to open a new restaurant by spring that will, in his words, “be representative of the family.”
