The interior’s been redone since I used to visit when the school day was done way back when I used to teach at Rosenwald in New Roads. I spent a lot of lunch periods in my classroom decompressing with a paperback so I could make it through the afternoon classes. I don’t think I shortchanged the students, but I lacked the patience and temperament to be a good middle school teacher. Hats off to all those who serve in the classroom. It is not an easy job. I would stop off at Morel’s on my way back to Baton Rouge for a meal and a beer and chill looking out over the water. Back then it was pretty much an old school bar with a few tables for old school bar food. Poboys and gumbo mostly. Now they’ve moved the bar out of the main room and dressed up the dining area a bit. Along with the menu. There’s blackened mahi and seafood salads and steaks. I was hoping to get a smoked sausage poboy, but at least they still had some very good onion rings and a New Orleans roast beef poboy with Swiss and caramelized onions and an excellent beef gravy on the side. And both came in half orders so it wasn’t stretching it to have a half a roast beef poboy, a half order of onion rings, and a side of fries. I couldn’t finish it all, of course, but that’s why they have to go boxes.
