It’s often said that, in New Orleans’ French Quarter, the dead outnumber the living, that residual energy from the past continues to inhabit the neighborhood’s 300-year-old buildings and mysterious courtyards. The same could be said of past business ventures, whose traces continue to haunt.

New Orleans-founded eyewear brand Krewe — and its newly opened café and wine bar, Patula, tucked into the flagship’s historic courtyard on Royal Street — embraces this lingering influence.

Once the home of Zachary Taylor, the 12th U.S. president, the two-story Krewe flagship opened in 2015 after being renovated to become a destination for fashion, entertainment and hospitality. A robust calendar of cultural events has kept the store and its courtyard jumping, but it lacked one central element of the

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