King Creole has been dethroned. There’s a big “For Lease” sign in the gumbo restaurant’s window, and Central District News reports it’s been shut down. No word on the reason for the closure, but the BP oil spill that’s threatening to take shrimp off the menu at Marcela’s Creole Cookery can’t have helped.
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