After eight years in enterprise, Gris-Gris will shut its Journal Avenue restaurant on the finish of July. Owned by chef Eric Prepare dinner and his spouse, Robyn, the restaurant at 1800 Journal St. is understood for refined Southern delicacies and New Orleans-inspired dishes served in an informal neighborhood setting.

The house owners introduced the restaurant’s closure in a social media publish.

“Of all of the posts we have now made (and we have now made so much), this one is the hardest,” the publish mentioned. “We now have determined to shut Gris-Gris on the finish of July. It is a choice that has include an incredible quantity of emotion, and our hearts are damaged. However on the finish of the day, this can be a properly thought out enterprise choice.”

The restaurant will likely be closed for its common Tuesday and Wednesday off days this week, with extra particulars anticipated Thursday about its remaining weeks in operation. “We’ll do all we will to verify our mates, household and dependable prospects have their final probability to ‘dance on the funeral,’” the publish mentioned.

Of their announcement, Eric and Robyn Prepare dinner thanked the Gris-Gris crew and prospects. “To our household at Gris-Gris, each previous and current, thanks for all of the reminiscences. We had loads of good instances collectively and are pleased with all the things we did for our neighborhood, mates and the Metropolis of New Orleans. Hopefully we may have left our mark and are grateful for the chance to be part of this metropolis’s nice culinary historical past.”

Prepare dinner is a New Orleans native, fight veteran, and former U.S. Marine who skilled on the John Folse Culinary Institute. His profession has included work at Brennan’s, Commander’s Palace, the Nationwide WWII Museum’s American Sector, Dickie Brennan’s Bourbon Home, Tommy’s Delicacies, and N.O.S.H. Prepare dinner has additionally appeared on tv packages together with “Prime Chef New Orleans,” “Off the Menu: After Hours with Daniel Boulud,” and “Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted.” In 2019, he was named a culinary legend on the ACF Finest Cooks of Louisiana.

Opened in 2018, Gris-Gris has served dishes resembling shrimp and grits, seafood-stuffed crab salad, “My Mother’s Rooster and Dumplings,” roast beef particles po’boys, Prepare dinner’s signature Oyster BLT with fried Gulf oysters, hen and andouille gumbo, and pink beans and rice on Mondays.

Gris-Gris has acquired a number of native and nationwide honors, together with Eater New Orleans’ Reader’s Selection awards for 2018 Restaurant of the Yr and Chef of the Yr, New Orleans CityBusiness’ 2018 Restaurant of the Yr, and recognition from New Orleans Journal, TimeOut.com, Gambit, and different publications.

Along with Gris-Gris, Prepare dinner opened Saint John within the French Quarter in 2021. Prepare dinner offered Saint John to his enterprise companions, in keeping with an April 20 Instagram publish.