{"id":2468,"slug":"tujagues-new-orleans-louisiana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Tujague's is the brunch — the 'butcher's breakfast' that's the workers fed, the 'tradition born' that's the world's meal. The '1856' is the old — the 'second oldest' that's the city's rank, the 'bar shipped' that's the Paris sent. The 'coffee cups' is the served — the 'Prohibition' that's the liquor hid, the 'shaft stored' that's the workaround kept.","The 'Begue's took' is the moved — the '1914' that's the rival's space, the 'merged' that's the competition's end. The 'mirror 90' is the aged — the 'Paris bistro' that's the glass's life, the 'reflected century' that's the bar's depth. Tujague's is the stood — the 'stand-up' that's the posture kept, the 'presidents drank' that's the register's names.","The file keeps Tujague's: the brunch's birth, the hidden liquor, the rival's space, and the mirror's century.","Tujague's is the archive's Louisiana file — the restaurant that invented brunch."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Tujague's is the archive's Louisiana file — where brunch began in a butcher's breakfast.","A restaurant keeps its ritual — the file's suggestion being that Tujague's hold is the invented: the 'butcher's breakfast' that's the meal made, the 'coffee cups' that's the liquor hid, and the 'mirror aged' that's the bar's depth."]}],"name":"Tujague’s","aliases":[],"type":"RESTAURANT","type_label":"Restaurant","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_BUILDING"],"groups":["hauntings","legends","lodging"],"desc":"The 1856 stand-up bar—the Quarter’s second-oldest restaurant.","full_desc":"Tujague’s is a restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana. The 1856 stand-up bar—the Quarter’s second-oldest restaurant. HauntHunt files it with haunted places and local folklore. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Guillaume Tujague. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It still serves diners.","address":null,"city":"New Orleans","county":null,"state":"Louisiana","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":30.05342,"lon":-89.934502,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Restaurant/bar","research_notes":"Restaurants/bars batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1922,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"Tujague is said to occupy the bar. Witnesses name it Guillaume Tujague; the name travels further than the proof. The restaurant's reports are the kind old establishments accumulate — footsteps after close, presences in empty rooms. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. Sources including 'Tujague’s' keep the claim in circulation. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":"Guillaume Tujague","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Tujague’s","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tujague%27s","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Founded 1856; the grasshopper was invented here. An old restaurant with its history on record gives the dossier a verified foundation. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Tujague’s' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1856","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Tujague’s","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tujague%27s","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Tujague is said to occupy the bar. The restaurant's reports are the kind old establishments accumulate — footsteps after close, presences in empty rooms. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The account appears in 'Tujague’s'. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Tujague’s","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tujague%27s","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Guillaume Tujague","claimed_identity":"Guillaume Tujague","verified":null,"summary":"Tujague is said to occupy the bar. The presence goes by Guillaume Tujague. The restaurant's reports are the kind old establishments accumulate — footsteps after close, presences in empty rooms. The report is preserved in sources like 'Tujague’s'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","behavior":"Tujague is said to occupy the bar.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Tujague’s","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tujague%27s","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Tujague’s","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tujague%27s","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}