Frenchmen All Day, the compact Marigny café known for house-roasted coffee, boozy Bloody Marys and hefty Cuban sandwiches, has quietly gone dark after five years, erasing one of the strip’s low-key, breakfast-into-late-night options from Frenchmen Street’s live-music corridor.
According to NOLA.com, the two-story building that housed the café is being handled in a sale by KFK Group, and the owners could not be reached for comment. The outlet noted Frenchmen All Day opened in 2021 in the former Café Rose Nicaud space and cited a social media post that described recent menu tweaks as adding “touches of his family’s tried and true recipes.”
Menu and staff
Chef Dwayne Richards steered the kitchen, leaning into a mix of New Orleans standards and brunch comfort food. According to Toasttab, the café roasted its own beans and poured them alongside dishes like shrimp and grits and Cuban sandwiches, all backed by an all-day cocktail program.
A small spot on a big strip
The café operated out of a narrow storefront tucked between Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro and a neighboring brasserie on the Frenchmen Street block, part of the Marigny stretch that draws locals and visitors nearly every night. Guides to the street long counted Frenchmen All Day among the morning-to-midnight fixtures that give the block its off‑Bourbon vibe, with sidewalk seating that doubled as a front-row seat for music and people-watching.
What’s next for the space
Online business listings now flag the café as permanently closed, and the building sale sets the stage for a new tenant once the deal is done. MapQuest currently marks Frenchmen All Day as “permanently closed,” even as the Frenchmen All Day website remains live with background information and contact details. No official replacement or reopening plan has been announced.
