The Nashville chef combines Southern foods and modern techniques
Fall is rolling into New Orleans. One sure sign? The number of food festivals cropping up across the local calendar.
Hogs for the Cause comes around each spring, but the cause itself never sleeps. Many of the teams that make this unique New Orleans charity food event tick are active year round, cooking barbecue and raising money to support families contending wi…
A new restaurant taking shape in Covington will combine elements of a steakhouse and a barbecue joint.
The news that Tujague’s Restaurant will relocate was hard for some to believe. The second-oldest restaurant in New Orleans, a picture of permanence, pulling up stakes?
A new restaurant taking shape in Covington will combine elements of a steakhouse and a barbecue joint. It also combines a chef’s affinity for laidback, family-style shared meals and culinary techniques gleaned from a career in fine dining.
Nine Roses, a Vietnamese restaurant that has been a fixture of the local dining scene since the early 1990s, reopens Thursday, Oct. 17, following a three-month closure and renovation.
News of a good ramen noodle shop will send some foodies scurrying across town to check it out. A food truck with a killer curry or a pop-up with dumplings done just so can draw followers wherever they go.
"I think the blackberry purple basil [flavor] is the hardest. It’s hard to pick the blackberries, and it’s hard for the farmers to bring them to customers without them disintegrating."
One of the oldest Vietnamese restaurants in the area will reopen this week after a renovation intended to help keep it around a lot longer
Founded in 1856, Tujague's Restaurant is the second-oldest dining establishment in New Orleans. Soon, though, the historic restaurant will move from its longtime home at 823 Decatur St. to a new location a few blocks upriver, at 429 Decatur St. Th…
At the historic, old-line restaurants of New Orleans it can sometimes feel like time stands still. But soon the city’s second-oldest restaurant will be on the move.
Aaron Sanchez on his career, restaurants and Mexican food
Aarón Sánchez made his name as a chef as Nuevo Latino cuisine was taking root and gained fame as food TV shows came of age.
Coast Roast Coffee & Tea is about to open a stand-alone shop in New Orleans at 3618 Magazine St., near restaurants Cavan and Lilette. Coast Roast operates retail outlets in St. Roch Market and Auction House Market and has two locations in Miss…
It’s soup weather at last, or so the calendar says. Recent forecasts don't exactly call for a sweater, but I can enjoy soup in my air-conditioned home, and it helps me imagine that cooler days are near.
Wherever the Crescent City Farmers Market convenes, local farmers, food producers, chefs and shoppers together create a hands-on showcase of regional food culture.
Pizza restaurant holds an opening party Oct. 11
Note: a version of this story originally ran November 13, 2018. I'm rebooting it here (with a few updates and additions) because this is the week in New Orleans when, for the first time since, oh, March?, anyone started suggesting we were experien…
Just say beignet and New Orleans people can practically taste them. But what keeps Sherman Clark coming back to Stuph’D Beignets & Burgers is something different than the powdered sugar classic.
New lounge occupies former Tony Moran's Restaurant spot
The tables at Em Trai Sandwich Co. are lined with ketchup and hoisin, Tabasco and Sriracha. Somewhere on its menu, there’s a place for all of it.
The drinks are again flowing at Parasol's Restaurant & Bar, the classic Irish Channel neighborhood joint. The gravy-drenched roast beef po-boys should be back soon, too.
The Little Easy, a new bar and restaurant, is slated to open in late October at 634 Julia St. in the Warehouse District.
The New Orleans Botanical Garden and the Southern Food and Beverage Museum debut outdoor culinary spaces in the next week.
West Bank pastry shop offers macaron class Oct. 5
For nearly a decade, Mondo was a neighborhood restaurant that offered a journey of global flavors. Now, the same Lakeview address is reopening as Elle-J’s, with a Creole-Italian menu rooted much closer to home.
Superior Seafood and Oyster Bar, a popular St. Charles Avenue restaurant, has been ordered to pay $238,300 in back wages and damages to 222 employees, the U.S. Department of Labor said.
Chef Alon Shaya's Saba (5757 Magazine St., 504-324-7770) is serving Persian food to kick off a series of special menus of cuisines from the Middle East. The Persian menu is inspired by dishes from Iran’s northern mountain regions and southern coas…
The new conclusions were swiftly attacked by a group of U.S. scientists.
Meet whiteclawboy94, also known as Cullen Frazier. If his PlayStation username doesn't give away his allegiance to White Claw hard seltzer, the tall, narrow can he reaches for when it's time to party surely will.
Grab your steins, lace up your lederhosen and dirndls, and head to the bayou for the Deutsches Haus' annual Oktoberfest.
Wine aficionados can pursue their passion at vineyards and tasting rooms around the world. Breweries will draw beer hounds wherever they set up shop.
True believers
The U.S. Department of Labor has fined Jacques-Imo’s restaurant in Carrollton $55,288 for violating provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Plus, Westbank Heritage Festival, Garden Festival and "Carmen"...
New Orleans bakeries and restaurants serving special foods for the holidays
The family behind Barrow’s Catfish restaurant on Earhart Boulevard came out on top of Food Network’s newest culinary competition "Family Restaurant Rival" on Saturday night (Sept. 21). The payoff was ten grand and national exposure for the New Orl…
The wave of development in downtown New Orleans has brought with it new restaurant concepts from local chefs and national brands.
The newest addition to City Park is all about growing, understanding and cooking fresh food — along with environmental stewardship. An elegant new Kitchen in the Garden will debut at the New Orleans Botanical Garden during the big regional Fall Ga…
Where to eat next? The question is always top of mind in this town, so this monthly column is an ever-changing clutch of quick recommendations to add to the mix.
A new restaurant opening will always draw some attention. But in Mandeville lately, it's the reopening of a familiar restaurant that many have been anticipating most.
True Food Kitchen, a restaurant that targets health-conscious diners, opens Wednesday, Sept. 25, in the Warehouse District.
Nguyen describes the eclectic menu as “what I like to eat.” That includes crab dip with wonton chips, fried egg rolls, spring rolls, bao, pho, salads and sandwiches.
When Gene’s closed its doors in August after a half-century in business, it marked the end of a long haul for the Pepto-pink po-boy shop on Elysian Fields Avenue.
Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken and Southerns have been crowned the winners of the 2019 National Fried Chicken Festival in New Orleans.
Much like many an NFL game happening about the same time, for Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken on Sunday, it was all coming down to the wire.
Kelly Mayhew will offer breads, cakes, pastries, sandwiches and signature swirls
Chef cooks with fish fins, cheeks and more