Panini for Lunch, Weekends for Brunch!

At six weeks out of the gate, Domenica expands its service and menu

Just when you thought Domenica was your new favorite restaurant, offering, as it does, the best of both worlds with its irresistible home style Italian cuisine in a chic contemporary atmosphere within the newly renovated Roosevelt Hotel – it gets even better:

Panini

Chef Alon Shaya puts his expertise in all things Italian to more extensive use with his new range of mouth-watering panini at lunch.  Go ahead and try to choose between the Slow Roasted Porchetta, aged provolone, salsa verde and broccoli rabe; the Prosciutto, fresh mozzarella, tomato, mayonnaise; Oxtail, taleggio, sautéed mushrooms; and the Trippa alla fiorentina, salsa piccante. Tempting vegetarian choices include Grilled market vegetables, goat cheese, arugula, radicchio and Mortadella, fontina, tomato, basil and mustard. Your best bet?  Bring a few friends and share a selection!  Sit at the central communal table and pass them around.  Each delectable grilled sandwich is $13, served with rosemary roasted potatoes or house made vegetable giardiniera.

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The number of vacant properties in New Orleans has plummeted in the past year — from nearly 70,000 abandoned lots to about 61,000 — while blight in several other major American cities has seen a steady uptick, according to a new report by the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center.

Using U.S. Postal Service records, researchers found that some 54,000 properties across town remain blighted or have no structure on them, while nearly 7,500 homes are likely habitable but vacant.

The new statistics continue a trend of diminishing blight. The data centerreported in May that New Orleans was home to about 65,900 vacant or unoccupied properties.

Data center director Allison Plyer said the steep drop over the past year “indicates substantial progress in the rebuilding and redevelopment of neighborhoods flooded by the levee failures of 2005.” City officials have estimated that more than half of New Orleans’ 200,000 residential properties were severely damaged in Hurricane Katrina.

The past year’s decline in blight brings the total proportion of abandoned addresses in New Orleans to 29 percent of all residential lots, according to the report. 

While that ratio remains the highest among five other cities with chronic blight problems, those cities — Washington, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Detroit and Flint, Mich. — all saw increases in the number of blighted properties in the past year, the report indicates.

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