Grand Isle is a casual seafood restaurant specializing in local catches and cold beer, and occupies the site of a former parking garage. Grand Isle Restaurant opens up to the newly created Fulton Street Promenade, a two-block pedestrian walkway fronting the Harrah’s Hotel, and featuring a number of other businesses, including Riché Restaurant and its adjacent 528 nightclub. Renowned local caterer and entrepreneur Joel Dondis, unveiled his latest culinary showplace in May 2007, and its popularity is already taking off. The new restaurant is called – appropriately – Grand Isle. Grand Isle is a more-than-one-hundred-mile drive from the city, via a circuitous route that takes you through Jefferson Parish (county) and two other parishes before re-emerging, 2-3 hours later, in Jefferson Parish at the shore of the Gulf of Mexico.īut visitors can now see glimpses of Grand Isle, Louisiana, as well as get a taste of it, thanks to a new restaurant opened near the Harrah’s Casino and Hotel on Poydras Street. Most first-time visitors to New Orleans will probably never see Grand Isle, the quaint little fishing village on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast that also boasts some of the state’s best beaches.
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