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Second Helping: Elizabeth’s Restaurant

October 3, 2025 No Comments

Revisiting restaurants I covered years ago to see what’s changed, or what’s deliciously stayed the same. Always hungry for affordable experiences and new flavors to share, I pulled off the dazzling feat of dining at well over a thousand New Orleans restaurants over the years. It’s a lifetime achievement I’ll […]

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Elizabeth’s: Worth the ride

August 2, 2011 3 Comments

On Saturday John and I got into our car, hungry and ready to head to Elizabeth’s for brunch, when I turned the ignition only to hear a nasty grinding noise of metal against metal.  It seemed that our sickly car finally taken its last breath. What were we to do? […]

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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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