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Dinner for Four from Compère Lapin

April 26, 2023 No Comments

Once again I was regaled with a three-course feast for four by Moveable Feast, this time from a New Orleans restaurant, Compère Lapin. When acclaimed chef Nina Compton opened her Warehouse District restaurant Compère Lapin almost eight years ago, I waited an anxious three months before I finally walked through […]

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Your Table is (Always) Ready: Moveable Feast

January 13, 2023 No Comments

The second most important thing the pandemic taught us is if food is prepared, managed and packaged well, take-out can be pretty damn awesome (the first is how to properly wear a mask, but I’m not going to get on that particular soapbox). When push came to shove, restaurants and […]

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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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    Pub Grub

  • April 1, 2019

    A modern, whimsical Parisian brasserie in the French Quarter

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    Tasting blood

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