This round goes to Motwani

The epic clash of New Orleans Real Estate Dickheads playing out on Frenchmen Street is not over, though. At least according to Sidney it isn't.

Motwani said the deal with Vaso calls for the club to buy the building and sell part of it back to the Motwanis. The club, he said, will remain.

Torres said he plans to appeal Bruno’s ruling. “We’re not backing down because we feel the law is on our side,” he said. “This whole thing is basically not over.”

Torres described the Motwanis’ effort to acquire the building after losing out in the bidding as “a snake move.”

When he had the French Quarter garbage collection contract, Torres was known for the lemony scent he ordered spread through the city’s historic core. He said he planned to evict Vaso in part over unsanitary conditions, including rats.

That's weird, though, because you would think the "snakes" would be ideal for helping to clean out the rats. Also this article conforms to the legal mandate that any story about Sidney Torres must include the word, "lemony." I suppose it is here in order to set this up. 

“I’m very anal when it comes to cleanliness,” Torres said. “Right now (Vaso) doesn’t fit with what I own.”

In which case I think we should amend the rule to now require this quote be added to the conditions. 

Update: Of course if Sidney does miss out on Vaso and is still looking to take over bars, then Parasol's should be available soon.

You'll be able to get a roast beef po-boy at Parasol's Restaurant & Bar this weekend, but after Friday night, the bar at the classic Irish Channel neighborhood joint will be dry.

Parasol's proprietor Thea Hogan said that a city lawsuit over unpaid taxes has left her unable to renew Parasol's liquor license, which expires Saturday. She is working to get the bar back to normal, but when or how that will happen remains an open question.

There are a bunch of rumors going around but the basic story is the bar owes at least two years worth of back taxes for some reason.  Unless the debt is paid and the license reinstated within six months, the building could lose its non-conforming usage status. At that point, nobody will ever be able to operate a bar there ever again.  Because this is New Orleans where we love our neighborhood bars so much we are always trying to kill them.

Anyway so the rumors are a bunch of people are "lining up" to buy the bar and pay off the taxes so they can take over Parasol's. That sounds like a Sidney move to me. But then I don't know if a dingy corner bar really meets his cleanliness standards.