A New Restaurant with Outdoor Dining in Metairie
Garden Gates, the home and garden center in Old Metairie closed its doors, but the beautiful cottage will now become Garrison Kitchen & Cocktails. The new restaurant in the old cottage is located at 2928 Metairie Road in Metairie. The restaurant will feature “upscale casual modern American cuisine.” 
The ground around the home will be part of the restaurant and will be called the Pavillions at Garrison. It will have a collection of gazebos with dining tables, an open kitchen and outdoor dining areas. The total size of the property is 1.7 acres and will have “distinctly different areas” throughout.
The indoor/outdoor space is named after owner Steven Stewart’s business Garrison Builders which is a local construction firm. The old cottage will house the bar and an intimate dining room. He will keep the original features of the home. The kitchen will be new construction and will have an open concept with windows that open to the outdoor areas. The gazebos will house their own fans and heatings systems for patrons’ comfort. The remaining grounds will be herb, vegetable and flower gardens that have walking paths intertwined.
“You’ll be able to come to and have a different experience on different visits,” Stewart says.
There are other places that are opening up close to the new restaurant which will bring customers to the area. These include Rock-n-Shake (next door), Las Cruces Tex-Mex and Felipe’s. “It’s good; I think we’ll all play off each other. It becomes more of this restaurant corridor that people think about when they want to go out to eat,” says Stewart.