A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Greg Sonnier toiled as a line cook at K-Paul’s, honing his craft from Chef Prudhomme while courting his co-worker wife-to-be. Since then, Sonnier has gone to the Riverbend (as sous chef at Brigtsten’s), Faubourg St. John (as chef/owner of the wildly loved Gabrielle) and to Uptown (where NIMBYs—not-in-my-backyards—stifled his attempt to reopen a relocated Gabrielle after Katrina). Today, Sonnier finds himself manning a...