This periodic column rounds up restaurant and bar closures in and around New Orleans. Know of a restaurant closing we missed? Drop us a line.

Tito’s Ceviche and Pisco Magazine

A bright spot in New Orleans dining is closing its original location after seven years to focus on its second, newer restaurant, marking a significant loss for Magazine Street in Uptown. Tito’s Ceviche and Pisco announced on Instagram on Thursday, October 17, that the restaurant at 5015 Magazine Street would close as of Tuesday, October 29, “to focus on our larger location” at 1433 St. Charles Avenue, which opened in 2022.

Juan and Tatiana Lock first opened Tito’s on Magazine Street in 2017 with Nanyo Dominguez as chef (Dominguez went on to open downtown restaurant Bésame in 2021). The cozy restaurant was an exciting addition to Uptown dining, serving a menu of ceviche, tiraditos, Peruvian specialties like lomo saltado, and pisco to a stretch of Magazine Street home to a mix of po’ boy shops, bars, and traditional New Orleans restaurants.

The Cause and the Cure

A new Mid-City haunt with a creative menu of Dominican-inspired bar food is closing after just six months, owners announced on Instagram on Friday, October 18. The Cause and the Cure is from Robert Corroza, the proprietor of two fairly new French Quarter bars, High Grace on St. Peter Street and Fétiche NOLA, a fetish-themed cocktail bar on St. Louis Street that opened in August. Corroza opened the Cause and the Cure in the Banks Street space formerly home to Fharmacy in May 2024. “We are sad to share that Cause will be ceasing operations at our Banks Street location as of Sunday, October 20,” Corroza wrote.

The food menu, which included Dominican smash burgers, chopped cheese sandwiches, and Korean-style corndogs, will be moving over to High Grace beginning November 1, and Monkey Monkey Coffee and Tea, a coffee shop that operates out of the bar in the morning hours, will remain in the space and expand with lunch service.