No mo' N.O. Eats in NYC?

Well..that explains it. My wife and I were in NYC earlier this week for the Glen David Andrews show at Sullivan Hall and thought we'd get some New Orleans inspired food for dinner so we headed down to the Acme Bar & Grill on Great Jones Street. Lo and behold we got there and did a double take because it was shut down- not closed for the day shut down but metal shutters rolled down and really closed shut down. No signage or any other indication why or when. So, on to  plan B. I had a few months before eaten at another New Orleans type restaurant-Mara's Homemade- not too far away so we walked over and I'll be darned if they weren't closed as well- altho at least they had a sign on door saying they were closed on Tuesdays. So unbelievably we had been shut out at 2 New Orleans themed restaurants. Unbelievable...settled on some good old NYC pizza at Rays in the Village. Not too shabby of a Plan C. Anyway, it turns out that both the Acme Grill and Mara's Homemade have run into trouble and very recently Acme announced they were closing- initially it appeared for good but now more recently- just for a long needed renovation (see articles here and here); While Mara's Homemade is apparently closing for good at the end of April - see their story here. It's a shame -I had eaten at both a couple times over past couple years and food was good- not New Orleans good but pretty darn good for not being in New Orleans. Oh well, hopefully Acme will re-open with the same N.O. inspired menu and maybe someone else will come along and open another N.O. themed place to take Mara's place..Here's hopin...