There’s some good mojo working on Cherokee Street for fans of quirky bars and good food. The recently-shuttered Little Dipper sandwich shop will re-open November 5th in a space-sharing arrangement with The Fortune Teller Bar that will benefit both businesses.
The Fortune Teller will focus on beer, booze, cocktails, and camaradie. “We know how to sell booze,” FTB’s co-owner Matt Thenhaus says. “We just never knew much about running a kitchen profitably. We’re working with someone who can do what we can’t.”
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Little Dipper’s chef/owner Tanya Brown is eager to serve her comfort-food menu from the popular sandwich shop. She’ll rotate weekly specials featuring favorites from the Fortune Teller’s original menu as well.
Although the kitchen at the Fortune Teller will be closed for the next three weeks, bar service – and fortune tellers with Tarot cards – will continue each night. “We updating the kitchen to work with the Little Dipper menu,” Brown says. Neighboring restaurants will hold pop-ups at the bar to feed hungry drinkers.
The Little Dipper kitchen will open with a triple-threat party on November 5th. “We’re celebrating our fourth year in business, the same month The Little Dipper will mark its first anniversary,” Thenhaus says. “The Jazz Crawl is happening in the neighborhood that day, so it’ll be work-work-work until then and party-party-party that day.”
The popular street party starts with a second line down Cherokee Street (when people dance down the streets in New Orleans waving kerchiefs and twirling umbrellas following the first line, i.e., the band that secured the parade permit). The Fortune Teller will host Wack-a-Doo from 12:30 until around 3. “You’ll find music in places that don’t usually have music all up and down the street,” Thenhaus says.
The Little Dipper will be ready to feed them, too, with customer favorites like the original Little Dipper (a hot Chicago-style Italian beef sandwich), and the Deli Lama (below).
“This is like a dream come true for me,” Brown says. “I put my heart and soul into The Little Dipper and couldn’t be more excited to continue the adventure on Cherokee Street. I definitely lucked out finding my spot with the Fortune Teller Bar family.”
It was in the cards. The stars aligned and brought two forces for good together on Cherokee Street.
Fortune Teller Bar
2635 Cherokee
314-776-2337
