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The Troubadour Hotel: Ballad of a boutique

February 1, 2017 No Comments

This past fall, New Orleans’ Central Business District welcomed the newest addition to the city’s burgeoning boutique craze, The Troubadour Hotel. Slumber Corners NOLA LLC purchased the long-defunct Rault Center and initiated a $10 million renovation, in coordination with locally-based Campo Architects, that only came to completion a few months […]

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Reviving a Legend: Pontchartrain Hotel

September 1, 2016 No Comments

Innovative hospitality and real estate investors AJ Capital Partners in Chicago have reinvigorated the Garden District gem with design that pays homage to the hotel’s illustrious past while simultaneously appealing to future generations. Originally built in 1927, the Pontchartrain is a quintessential New Orleans landmark that has played host to […]

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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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