What did not remain was the cheese omelette. It was much more ambitious than Bert and Tillie's Tally-Ho, with things like alligator sausage and pancakes so enormous that I can't imagine many people ever finished one.
The Tally-Ho closed for awhile, and then reopened with new owners, a new menu, and a new style.
I don't know what happened to Bert and Tillie. It made that omelette was so good that even as you ate it you were thinking about the next one. A juicy blend of finely-chopped onions and bell peppers was spooned into the omelette before they were folded over. What made them great was an additive Bert had on the back of the stove. They were big and moist and fluffy and unscorched-a rare enough thing right there. Well, these were in a class by themselves. How good could a cheese omelette get? you might well ask. And there was another one: Bert's cheese omelette. Of course, this dynamic was an attraction to a lot of their customers. If it were bad enough, they'd just close for the rest of the day. I don't know whether their fights were real or trumped up for dramatic effect, but they could be intense. The cause of this was that Bert and Tillie could work themselves up into quite a row. They had a way of closing early, or not opening at all, unpredictably. In fact, it wasn't really the best restaurant to visit if it were essential that you eat there.
This was not a restaurant to come to when you were in a hurry. Bert, the owner and cook, stood at a flat-top grill and cranked out the bacon, sausage, eggs, hash browns, and sandwiches. Most of the service was at a lunch counter. The place was was the most ordinary of diners. But the Tally-Ho did indeed serve an excellent breakfast. All of them said the same thing about the place: that it served the best breakfast in town. Most of the Tally-Ho's customers were local. But that's what people liked about The Tally-Ho and its owners, Bert and Tillie. Mr Duignan insisted those rallying cries were not made impudently or with a view towards grabbing headlines, but rather as a last ditch attempt to aid those businesses that “cannot wait for a Christmas rush” to save themselves from financial extinction.The Tally-Ho was one of the quirkiest restaurants in the French Quarter. “We are still in a better place than we were last year, but we would be encouraging people to come back and to support those businesses that have adhered to the restrictions,” he added. Mr Duignan revealed a scarcity of taxis had only served to compound the situation, stressing the onus was now on consumers to come to the aid of hard-pressed publicans and retailers alike. “It's the number of cases, people are still not confident enough to go out, it's a major problem.” Two weeks ago we thought we were on the way back but over the past two weeks things have taken a dramatic turn for the worse.
“Things are not great, business is not good. “I would have expected the numbers (of pub closures) would have been even higher,” he said. Mr Duignan said the rise in case numbers allied to a simmering disquiet among the wider public had led to a sharp fall-off in footfall. To add to those anxieties, Longford last week recorded the country's highest 14-day incidence rate of Covid-19 courtesy of 181 cases over a seven day period and a total of 302 over the last fortnight. Over the past seven days, National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) officials have routinely reported daily case numbers reaching in the region of 2,000. A large proportion of those issues, alluded to by the Longford publican, have come as a result of a gradual rise in confirmed cases of Covid-19.
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