The iconic Italian restaurant known for hand drawn musings and handwritten notes to customers in the window isn't being evicted after all, days after the owners learned from a text message they had 60 days to vacate their intimate Royal Street building.

Mona Lisa Restaurant, which has been serving pizza, pasta, and tongue-in-cheek service for nearly four decades in the French Quarter, will live on after owners Farrow Stephenson and Tom Moore met with the new owners of their building late last week.

Previously, a real estate agent had sent the couple a text message notifying them of a potential eviction.

Stephenson broke the news to New Orleans diners with a hand-drawn sign on the front door, a tradition he started during the pandemic in 2020.

The outcry that followed prompted an ev

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