Parkway Bakery & Tavern

This guide to Parkway Bakery & Tavern in New Orleans traces the confusion over exactly when this century-old po-boy shop reopened, sometime in the early 2000s after sitting shuttered for a decade. It follows contractor Jay Nix, who bought the failing bakery for forty five thousand dollars meaning only to store his tools, and the neighbors who kept asking when Parkway was coming back until he gave in and put his nephew Justin Kennedy in the kitchen. The Timothy family had run the original bakery here since 1922, before health code violations finally closed its doors.