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Facade Forward: A Harmonious Garden Built for Junebug

July 6, 2026 No Comments

The Warehouse District bar and restaurant, created by Neighborhood Restaurant Group, is a distinctive assemblage, seamlessly grafting a green space onto the living roots of our city’s musical heritage. Melded together by a trailing fuchsia vine created by local muralist Hilly Landry, the two structures that make up Junebug are […]

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House of the Week: Raised Center Hall on Camp Street

May 27, 2022 No Comments

If you’ve ever seen the movie Wayne’s World (and honestly, I’d be surprised if you haven’t), you’re familiar with the method in which Wayne and Garth perform a screen dissolve. Imagine if you will, I am wiggling my hands, adding waves to your vision and repeating “doodle-oo doodle-oo doodle-oo!” Suddenly, […]

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House of the Week: Greek Revival on Camp Street

March 17, 2021 No Comments

Though there are reasons to love all of New Orleans’s neighborhoods, I have a nostalgic sort-of fondness for the Lower Garden District, specifically the area around Coliseum Square Park. Maybe my adoration is due to too many nights spent swilling beer at the Half Moon or Saint, the numerous meals […]

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Though she was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kim Ranjbar took her passion for the written word and dragged it over 2000 miles to flourish in the city she loves. For well over a decade, she's been eating, photographing and writing about food (and more!) in New Orleans, her work appearing in local publications such as French Quarter Journal, Where Y'at Magazine, New Orleans Living Magazine, NewOrleans.com and Louisiana Kitchen & Culture.

After over 20 years as a transplant — surviving hurricanes, levee failures, oil spills, boil water advisories and hipster invasions — Kim hopes to eventually earn the status of local and be welcomed into the fold.

Feel free to contact her at kimranjbar@gmail.com

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  • March 1, 2020

    Prodigious Plates: For the Love of Leftovers

  • November 1, 2017

    Drink in the view: Rooftop bars of New Orleans

  • June 1, 2017

    The (Pine)Apple of My Eye

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New Orleans Restaurants

  • October 9, 2013

    Oodles of food at Noodle & Pie

  • December 23, 2010

    I need more Cowbell!

  • May 28, 2015

    Breakfast at Blue Line Sandwich Co.

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