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- Maypop and MoPho closing Could 4 after 8 and 11 years respectively
- Proprietor Michael Gulotta cites slowdowns, post-pandemic struggles, and close by avenue closures
- MoPho’s airport location at MSY will stay open
- Chef Gulotta asks locals to assist employees earlier than closure
The proprietor of Maypop and MoPho has introduced that each New Orleans eating places will shut their doorways on Could 4, citing a collection of setbacks together with post-pandemic struggles, slower enterprise, and up to date avenue closures from a close-by constructing collapse.
MoPho has been open in Mid-Metropolis for 11 years, and Maypop has been working within the Central Enterprise District for eight years. MoPho’s location will stay open within the Louis Armstrong New Orleans Worldwide Airport.
Michael Gulotta, proprietor of each Maypop and MoPho, thanked his loyal clients on Fb on Thursday.
“To all of our loyal MoPho and Maypop followers, we wish to say thanks for the entire love and assist over the past 11 years,” Gulotta wrote. “We had been capable of flip two quirky corners of NOLA into two award successful eating locations. It’s been an extremely rewarding run, and we particularly need to thank our groups. They’ve continued to place out superb meals, cocktails, and repair via innumerable setbacks and slowdowns.”
In 2014, Chef Michael Gulotta opened MoPho with highschool buddy, Jeffrey Bybee, to mix Louisiana influences with Southeast Asian flavors. MoPho was Gulotta’s first restaurant. Its sister restaurant Maypop opened in 2017 and is an award-winning restaurant and bar with dishes impressed by the varied tradition of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, bringing a up to date, regionally sourced twist to basic southern-Asian dishes.
Staffing at each eating places was lower by about half over current years as a result of post-pandemic struggles. As well as, in December 2024, a constructing, located throughout from Maypop, partially collapsed, and the world has since been blocked off and barricaded from automobiles. The obstacles have contributed to the slowed enterprise.
Gulotta additionally owns Tana, an Italian restaurant on Metairie Street. Gulotta requested for native assist for each Maypop and MoPho earlier than the Could 4 closure date. “Please come out these subsequent few days and present them some love and assist and to provide us a correct ship off.”
