The gumbo is as good as it gets. The menu is filled with Creole flavor and updated takes on comfort food. It’s had a few locations through the years, and it has always been worth seeking out across town .
Soon, the Munch Factory will be on the move again, this time to Mid-City to an address that will give it a more central location in a hub of other restaurants and a block from a streetcar line.
The family-run restaurant is moving from its current spot as the clubhouse restaurant at the Joseph M. Bartholomew Municipal Golf Course in Gentilly, where it was both a neighborhood lunch spot and snack bar amenity for golfers.
Its new home will be at 4141 Bienville St., previously the barbecue restaurant Frey Smoked Meat Co. ( which closed earlier this year ).
At the new location, the