Thomas “Uptown T” Stewart
Pascal’s Manale, the stalwart Uptown restaurant, is an icon going as strong as ever at 112 years old and Thomas “Uptown T” Stewart is an essential part of its success.
Frank Manale opened his namesake restaurant, Manale’s, in a former grocery store in 1913. Frank’s nephew, Pascal Radosta, helmed it beginning in 1937. He later changed the restaurant’s name to Pascal’s Manale Restaurant. Generations of the family worked at the restaurant until it was famously sold to auto dealership owner Ray Brandt in 2019 just days before his passing.
Pascal’s Manale Restaurant was sold to a third local family in 2023. Brother and sister legacy restaurateurs Dickie Brennan and Lauren Brennan Brower were a natural choice to captain the purely New Orleans restaurant as Dickie Brennan & Co. also owns such restaurants as Bourbon House and Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse. The Brennans are longtime customers of their new acquisition and vowed, along with owner Steve Pettus, to keep the historic character of Pascal’s Manale intact while performing necessary updates to ensure its longevity…