Gumbo Cafe

[slkinsey]

This just in from New York Magazine...

Gumbo Café

950 Columbus Avenue (near 107th Street)

212-222-2378

Gumbo Café’s Dexter Stewart [is] a Nawlins native but no muffaletta snob. Where others insist it can’t be done, he improvises with suitably soft focaccia from Parisi Bakery. A proper two-fisted sandwich, it’s packed with salami, smoked turkey, and melted provolone. The clincher, though, is the finely chopped olive-and-pickled-veggie dressing.

Menu also includes things like gumbo and jambalaya.

[VivreManger]

Asimov has a very positive review of a modest Cajun cafe on Columbus near 107th St.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/dining/26UNDE.html

He recommends the jambalaya and the rice and beans. Sounds like a good place at least until it gets overrun.

Anybody know it?

[slkinsey]

I've been meaning to go (it's in my 'hood) but haven't been able to get there yet.

[VivreManger]

A month ago Eric Asimov ran an article on the Gumbo Cafe on Columbus & 107th.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/dining/26UNDE.html

My daughter loves rice and beans and I like cajun so we thought to hike up the 30 blocks from the Museum of Natural History. Since it is unlicensed I bought a few beers along.

No luck. The place was closed on a Thursday evening at about 7:00. anybody know what happened?

Edited June 26, 2004 by VivreManger (log)

[mikeyrad]

The Stewarts are clearly learning on the job. Recently Mr. Stewart decided to close an extra day during the week and to shut down between lunch and dinner to allow for more preparation. He expects service to speed up. The restaurant might even install an air-conditioner.

Could it be that Thursday was the extra day that they were closed?

[Daniel]

i too made the trek up to gumbo and was unhappy to find that the place opens at 6 pm on saturdays. So i had to settle on Miss Mammis Spoonbread.. Oh the humanity.