New Orleans City Park’s latest post-Katrina enhancement is a 24-hour Morning Call coffee stand, located in the Old Casino building just a short distance from the Peristyle and playground. This new outpost of the 140-year-old business faithfully recreates the marble countertops, bare light bulbs, mirrors and mahogany-colored woodwork of the original and transplanted Metarie locations.
Early 2013 has been uniformly gray and drizzly, but a recent visit to the City Park Morning Call proved that cafe au lait and beignets can chase away dismal weather for less than $10. For the price of bad gas station coffee, Morning Call still turns out a chicory-heavy brew lightened with scalding milk poured from a funny, long-spouted pot, served in a sturdy ceramic mug and saucer. The milk still forms a faint skin atop the cup, just as it did back in 1870 when Morning Call catered to French Market vendors.
It’s nice to know that some tastes don’t change.
Bouillie 
Is that the same Morning Call as the one in Baton Rouge? That’s the only one I’ve heard of. Great idea to have one there.
No, the “original” Morning Call doesn’t have a BR location. I think the BR place is “Coffee Call”.
Yes, the BR one is Coffee Call, and the beignets are very strange and do not come in orders of three….
This new location is walking distance from my house in daylight. Very dangerous.
How can beignets NOT come in orders of three? Wrong. Just. Plain. Wrong.