A grand plot that never materialized gave the French Quarter one of its landmark bars: the Napoleon House. New Orleans Mayor Nicholas Girod had a grand plan to rescue Napoleon from exile and bring him ...

Napoleon House takes its name from an episode of New Orleans history that never came to pass — an offer of refuge to the exiled French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. For one weekend in June, though, the ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Napoleon House in the French Quarter is officially launching “National Pimm’s Cup Day” in honor of the summer cocktail. July 1 is now officially the first ever “National Pimm’s ...

Last week in this space, we chronicled the history of New Orleans’ famous Napoleon House, that building at Chartres and St. Louis streets that — as legend holds — was offered as a refuge for exiled ...

When Sal Impastato handed over the keys of the Napoleon House this past spring, it was an emotional moment. Selling the business to restauranteur Ralph Brennan had been a difficult decision because ...

Ralph Brennan will buy Napoleon House (500 Chartres St., 504-524-9752; www.napoleonhouse.com), the French Quarter landmark owned and run by the Impastato family since 1914. Proprietor Sal Impastato ...

And it uses 200 loaves of bread every day for it. It might not claim the original muffuletta recipe, but there’s something uniquely delicious about the muffuletta at Napoleon House in New Orleans.

In 1920, Joseph Impastato paid $14,000 for 500 Chartres St., a building constructed in 1814 as a home for New Orleans Mayor Nicholas Girod. It was, he would later say, the smartest decision he ever ...