Archived Article By Tom Fitzmorris
Originally published April 24, 2008
Former Coyoacan Now Adavanced Snack Shop
Guillermo Peters Returns; It's Now Stop 9
I knew he'd come back. But not quite like this.
Chef Guillermo Peters, who operated the best Mexican restaurant in the history of New Orleans in the years immediately before and after the hurricane, and who closed it after disappointing business there, has reopened.
The new place bears no resemblance to either Coyoacan or Taqueros, either at the handsome latter-day location on St. Charles at Melpomene, or the more raffish original in Kenner. It offers breakfasts on weekends, coffee, sandwiches, salads, soups, sno-balls, and platters of--SCREECH! Back up!--sno-balls?
Well, that's what the says. It also gives the name of the place as "Stop 9 Refueling Station & Culinary Specialties." It's called that because it's at Stop Number Nine on the St. Charles streetcar line.
Chef Peters' daughter Ingrid Thomas, who was helping him run the restaurant in the Coyoacan glory days, is back again as part of this operation. The "culinary specialties" part of the name probably refers to a line of sauces and other ingredients for cooking at home. Before Guillermo began his restaurant, he made a good business of bottling his undeniably brilliant salsas.
Well, you can't say the guy isn't creative. Still, I wonder what this is all about.
Stop 9. Lee Circle Area: 1432 St. Charles Ave. 267-3028.
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