Monell's Takes Over a Manor With a Lot of History

As was noted in the comments on the Open Thread, restaurateur Michael King has taken over the former New Orleans Manor space on Murfreesboro Road and turned it into a new location of Monell's, his family-style Southern spot in Germantown.

King opened the doors to the new place on Easter Sunday, and immediately heard from older folks who remember the white-columned mansion next to the airport from when it was a private club for the city's power players — and also was the site a much-loved community Easter egg hunt every spring.

Here's what I wrote up for my Food Biz column in this week's edition of The City Paper: