Is Parkway Bakery & Tavern Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update

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Parkway Bakery & Tavern is a New Orleans institution built around classic po'boy sandwiches, according to the restaurant's own site, parkwaypoorboys.com, which brands the business as a Poorboy Sandwich Shop. The shop sits at 538 Toulouse Street and has built its reputation on traditional New Orleans sandwich bread and fillings, per the same source. A site check on 2026-09-08 found parkwaypoorboys.com live and returning normally, with an active online-ordering widget and posted Saturday hours of 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The same site currently promotes an upcoming Throwdown for the Future fundraiser, described on the site as a night of food, cocktails, music, and raffle prizes benefiting the Louisiana Restaurant Association Education Foundation, with tickets sold directly through the site. The listed phone number, (504) 482-3047, matches the number posted on the site's homepage. OSM-sourced hours for the location show a Wednesday-Friday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. schedule, consistent with the Saturday hours found in the 2026-09-08 check.

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Parkway Bakery & Tavern is a po-boy sandwich shop and tavern in the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans. According to the restaurant's website (parkwaypoorboys.com), checked 2026-09-08, the site was actively promoting a ticketed fundraiser called 'Throwdown for the Future' benefiting the Louisiana Restaurant Association Education Foundation, and listed Saturday hours of 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. along with online ordering. The website's title identifies the business as a 'Poorboy Sandwich Shop,' consistent with New Orleans' po-boy sandwich tradition, and lists a local phone number, (504) 482-3047, for orders and inquiries. The site's promotion of a ticketed benefit event suggests the tavern remains an active venue for community fundraising alongside its regular sandwich service. A Google Places listing checked 2026-09-08 lists the business as operational at 538 Hagan Ave.

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Parkway Bakery & Tavern appeared in the 2015-06-05 episode of You Gotta Eat Here! (season 4, episode 19), which TheTVDB's listing describes as a New Orleans restaurant that has served po'boys since 1929, alongside August Restaurant and La Mezcaleria. According to the shop's own history page, Parkway began in 1911 as a bakery built by baker Charles Goering Sr. The Timothy family bought it in 1922, and the po'boy shop was added in 1929. The page lists roast beef, shrimp and hot sausage po'boys as signatures, along with gumbo and bread pudding.

It reports that a flood in 1978 destroyed the brick ovens, that the Timothy brothers closed the business in 1993, and that Jay Nix bought the building in 1995 and reopened Parkway in 2005, with a brief Hurricane Katrina closure that same year. The page gives the address as 538 Hagan Avenue in Mid-City.