Ella introduced the concept of jazz brunch to Commander’s Palace patrons in the mid 1970s after a late-night phone call from her younger brother Dick.

Dick was in the lobby of a grand hotel in London, waiting with his family to check out, when he saw brunch being served in the dining room.

He poked his head in and noted that the patrons were eating their eggs and fruit in dead silence.

Then he heard a Dixieland jazz trio playing on the other side of the lobby and a bell rang in his head. He reportedly called Ella in New Orleans immediately.

If you have a valet park your car here, they don’t have a parking lot. They’re just parking it on the street.