At Poor Boys, a New Orleans-themed eatery in the Fan, the brassy squeal of trumpets and rat-tat-tat of drums bounce off the bunker-style concrete walls. The narrow dining room, even ...

Poor Boys, owned by Clayton Navarre (left) and Dillon Altizer, sets out to document a wide range of Cajun and Creole dishes at the New Orleans-themed restaurant at 203 N. Lombardy St.

And the Martins, in 1931, moved from the French Market to a new and bigger restaurant at 2000 St. Claude Ave., touting their now-popular sandwiches with signs that read: “Originators of ‘Poor ...

At Poor Boy's Riverside Inn restaurant in Broussard, Louisiana, the Hurst family is said to have helped bring the New Orleans po-boy sandwich to Lafayette in the 1930s.

Po’boys are among New Orleans’ greatest culinary contributions. The iconic sandwich—which got its name during a lengthy 1929 transit strike when a restaurant fed them free to unpaid “poor ...

Dorothy “Miss Dot” Domilise, matriarch and mainstay of the Uptown restaurant that bears her family’s name and earned fans nationwide for its poor boy sandwiches and New Orleans character ...