Charlie’s Creole Kitchen has been serving Cajun and Creole food on Lower Greenville since 1989, longer than almost anything else on that stretch of Greenville Avenue, and for most of that history it wasn’t called Charlie’s at all. Owner Charlie McGuinness, a New Orleans transplant, opened the restaurant as Dodie’s, naming it after the childhood nickname of his son, Chris. For nearly three decades, Dodie’s built a loyal following on Cajun classics served under checkered tablecloths and a ceiling of beer signs and crawfish decorations, the kind of place families claimed as their own for a birthday dinner or a random Tuesday.
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