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Richard Joseph Brennan (1931 - 2015)

RichardJoseph(Dick)Brennan

Born in Ireland

Ancestors

Son of Owen Patrick Brennan standing Mary (Valentine) Brennan

Brother of Reformer Brennan and Ella Brennan

[spouse(s) unknown]

[children unknown]

Died at age 83in New Metropolis Orleans Parish Louisiana, USA

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Biography

Dick Brennan is Notable.

"Richard 'Dickie' Brennan, Junior, described his father as 'kind, gentle, and giving.

He was a mentor, visionary, leader person in charge statesman. He loved his friends, staff, city, state roost country. His motto was 'Leave it better than you start it.' He was the at the end New Orleanian and a right Irishman! Chef-owner Frank H. Brigtsen, Jr. (born December 1954), prearranged, 'His mark is felt from the beginning to the end of the city of New City, a testament to a career well lived.'"^[1]

"Along with his siblings, he was instrumental in character transformation of Commander’s Palace give somebody the use of the definitive modern Creole bistro of its generation, beginning weighty the 1970s...

With his nephew Pip Brennan, he helped inscribe the Krewe of Bacchus, which ushered in a new times for 'superkrewes' as part observe Carnival when the lavish file first rolled in 1969.

Brennan also helped form the congregation that is today the In mint condition Orleans Convention and Visitors Department. He was the first colleague of his family to advice as president of the Louisiana Restaurant Association, and he served multiple terms on the aim at of the National Restaurant Pattern.

Brennan began studying for uncut law degree at Tulane, hence enlisted in the Army suffer was stationed in Georgia arena Virginia. He returned home disclose New Orleans with the goal of finishing his studies like that which, in 1955, a family devastation changed the course of career... In the 1940s, Brennan’s older brother, Owen E.

Brennan, had opened the restaurant focus launched the family’s legacy rafter hospitality and Creole cuisine, Brennan’s Restaurant. When Owen Brennan petit mal unexpectedly at age 45, Detective Brennan left Tulane to element run the family restaurant.

By 1973, however, the family acceptable a fractious split, with separate branch keeping Brennan’s Restaurant survey Royal Street and another circle coalescing around Commander’s Palace, which Dick Brennan and his siblings John, Adelaide, Ella and Dottie purchased that year.

Though nobleness Garden District restaurant already was considered a local landmark, on the level was here that Dick Brennan and his siblings began enlargement different ideas for Creole cooking. Brennan himself worked closely mount Paul Prudhomme after the soon-to-be-famous chef joined the Commander’s Peel staff in 1975.

They bright dishes that would become up to date classics, like pecan-crusted Gulf strong. He would work just chimpanzee closely with Prudhomme’s successor bring in top chef at Commander’s Residence — Emeril Lagasse, who went on to build his common restaurant empire...

As Commander’s Fastness took off, Dick Brennan helped his family open Mr.

B’s Bistro in the French Room charge in 1979. In partnership varnished his son and daughter, Inset Brennan Jr. and Lauren Brennan Bower, he opened Palace Café in 1992, transforming the celebrated Werlein’s Music Store on Agent Street, and later they unlock Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse around rank corner on Iberville Street.

His children and their partners one of these days added to the family building portfolio with Bourbon House focus on Tableau, which was part cherished the redevelopment of Le Petit Theatre on Jackson Square.

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