While a settlement between the landlord, ERG Enterprises, and the food hall’s operator allowed the vendors to continue operating there through late December, lease negotiations with individual vendors were not completed in time to keep the food hall open past then. What Will Happen to Its Vendors?Ībout a half mile away from the Hall on Mag sits the empty Pythian Market, which was evicted from its building in November 2022 for failing to pay more than $2.5 million in back rent.

The Hall on Mag website and social media accounts have been scrubbed from the internet, and its listing on the reservation platform Resy no longer allows for booking. When reached by phone Tuesday, a representative for Felicity Property Co., the building’s owner, said the company had “no comment” about the status of the food hall and immediately hung up. Messages and calls to the food hall operator, a company founded by entrepreneur Jamal Wilson, have gone unreturned. News of the multi-restaurant venue at Caesars comes during an uncertain time for New Orleans food halls: The Hall on Mag, which opened in August 2022 to replace the previous food hall there, Auction House Market, has been unexpectedly shuttered since at least December 30 when diners with reservations arrived to a locked building. Luxe sushi brand Nobu will anchor the casino with its first New Orleans restaurant, as announced in 2021, and is set to debut in 2024 (that restaurant is not part of the food hall). The Times Picayune-New Orleans Advocate reported this week that a new food hall planned for the casino has confirmed three well-known residents: Bobby Flay’s Bobby’s Burgers the second location of Buddy Valastro’s PizzaCake and, for a local name, a restaurant from chef Nina Compton, to be called Nina’s Creole Cottage. At the same time, two of New Orleans’s three food halls, the months-old Hall on Mag and four-year-old Pythian Market, both closed in recent weeks. As Harrah’s New Orleans gradually transforms into Caesars New Orleans - courtesy of a $325 million renovation - an ambitious, celebrity chef-driven food hall is also taking shape inside the casino.

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