TABLE TALK: New restaurants along and near the Avenue.

We came back to New Orleans last fall, after months away, ready for a table at Galatoire’s, a dozen raw oysters at Casamento’s and a snowball at Hansen’s. While we longed for old favorites, a few brave restaurateurs opened ambitious places that steered clear of the familiar. If...

RECIPE OF THE WEEK: Chill out with cool dishes for a hot month.

August has many childhood memories for me, and all of them are hot. It was the month my mother and I came down on the train from Memphis every year to visit my grandmother in Good Hope. The oil industry has long since chased out the residents, but for many years, about 200 people inhabited the tiny...

RECIPE OF THE WEEK – Shrimp Salad – Stuffed Avocados

This week’s recipe comes from the pages of our current issue of New Orleans Magazine. It is a perfect dish for the dog days of August. For more great summer time recipes pick up a copy of our current issue subscribe on line <LINK...

RECIPE OF THE WEEK

Dr. John Beyt's Courtbouillon, Henry Mayer's Pork Steaks Sauce Piquante, Sweet Potato Pie

RESTAURANT INSIDER

Almost every conversation I have turns into a discussion of food, drinks, dining, cookbooks, restaurants and chefs; this isn’t shocking given that I write about those things for a living, but it is intense. As always there are new spots and brilliant dishes to try, but there are New...

RECIPE OF THE WEEK: Pain Perdu, Discovering lost bread

I love New Orleans. It seems like I love it more since Katrina. All the things we hold dear are more important than before, when we took them for granted.

Yesterday, I bought my grandson a bubblegum flavored snowball because blue is his favorite color. That led me to tell him how only children in...

TABLE TALK – L’Expérience Française

Most Americans celebrate only one day in July. On the fourth, they open a can of cheap beer to toast the defeat of King George.

In New Orleans, our allegiances aren’t so narrow. Few houses fly Old Glory, but the city’s flag can be found on nearly every block. The rest of the country...

RECIPE OF THE WEEK: Veal Sweetbreads

This week's recipe comes from our sister publication St. Charles Avenue Magazine. You can pick up your copy at over 300 locations around town or subscribe for home delivery for only $17 a year by calling (504) 828-1380.

Iris Chef Ian Schnoebelen creates a savory summer menu. Visit them...

RESTAURANT INSIDER

Ah, June: a blessing – the start of tomato season – and a curse – the start of hurricane season.

Welcome back: Chinese food returned to Carrollton Avenue about a month ago – Five Happiness is back at its “new” location and is better than ever. The Imperial Room,...

TABLE TALK: Re-piecing the Vietnamese scene

Recently a good bowl of pho has been hard to find. The aromatic broth full of beef and rice noodles began as Vietnamese street food. As New Orleans’ Vietnamese community grew over the last three decades, pho became as common as turtle soup in the Crescent City.

Poor-boys returned quickly,...