When I was little, one of my favorite restaurants in New Orleans was Frankie & Johnny's, down by Tchoupitoulas. My mother would take me and we would split a seafood platter. After I turned 21, this would invariably be washed down by an ice cold Dixie beer. Heaven for about 20 bucks total. It slowly started to degrade in the 90s; (my all-time low there was, at age 22, having my credit card declined and not having any other money, but that's a different story.) It eventually closed - I can't remember exactly when, but fairly recently, suffering from dire infrastructure problems.
Fast forward to now. It's been reopened by new owners, spiffed up, and, most importantly, the food is the same as it was way back when: perfect fry, big portions, low total bill. BUT, the coolest thing is they have brought back a lot of the old staff. I remember Terrie from my check-bouncing days.
