Slurping wetly and noisily at the nourishment that is New Orleans
Neighborhood nosh . . . Among the first culinarians to graduate from New Orleans Culinary & Hospitality Institute (NOCHI) and kin of The Kupcake Factory owners, Laura Bueso recently partnered with her mother to launch Barrio Bites Mid-City. Located in the former Church Alley Coffee shop space on Canal Street, […]
Bonafide splash . . . For over a decade hungry diners have enjoyed fried chicken sandwiches and Belgian fries from Bonafried which began life in 2014 as a pop-up and started rolling as a food truck two years later. People would flock to the truck whether it was parked downtown […]
Revisiting restaurants covered years ago to see what’s changed, or what’s deliciously stayed the same. It’s been more than 17 years since Chef Nathanial Zimet’s BBQ dreams made the jump from the celebrated “Purple Truck” (aka Que Crawl) into a side-hall cottage on Jeanette Street. In the years since, the […]
It’s a family affair at a new Vietnamese restaurant in the St. Claude corridor – just outside the Marigny – and happily, everyone’s invited. Many people exclaim that their mother’s cooking is the best, but at Mời Vietnamese Deli & Homestyle Cooking, the proof is in the cà ri gà. […]
Crossing the pond . . . After almost five years in business, a Mid-City smash burger joint has branched out across the lake. Banks Street’s Bub’s Burgers has opened a third location (or does the grab-n-go spot opened last year on Freret Street only count as half a location?) in […]
Revisiting restaurants covered years ago to see what’s changed, or what’s deliciously stayed the same. Donald Link and Stephen Stryjewski effectively made elevated Cajun magic when they launched Cochon Restaurant in 2006 – and Butcher, which opened three years later, was a citified answer to a back-country boucherie. While the […]
Hip, hip … hooray! . . . Where Y’at Magazine would like to take this opportunity to offer three, loud cheers for the three New Orleans restaurants to be awarded Michelin stars; One for Bywater’s Saint Germain created by chefs Blake Aguillard and Trey Smith; one for Chef Sue Zemanick’s […]
Before we get too deep into 2026, I wanted to share some details about a few choice food extravaganzas I enjoyed last year. Overall, last year was one hell of a shit show, from the terrorist attack on Bourbon Street to the re-election of democracy’s most orange of enemies — […]
For Chef Uong, a dreaded childhood chore becomes reflective preparation of an ideal, breakthrough dish into Cambodian cuisine. From peeling mountains of potatoes to the tedium of picking the leaves from a seemingly endless bundle of parsley, few women escape the drudgery of food prep as a child. Instead of […]
Presentation is key . . . Veho Hospitality, the folks who gave us the endlessly-entertaining Tacos Del Cartel (Shots, shots, shots, shots, shots!), recently opened a whole new restaurant concept dubbed Sushi by Us. Located on O’Keefe Avenue inside The Beacon at South Market, the new restaurant took over what […]
Simmered in a sauce piquant, sauteed in garlic butter or deep fried, frog legs have long maintained a place on local menus. While realistically no one is worried about dining on the cursed limbs of Tiana or Prince Naveen, many people are understandably squeamish about eating frog legs. Not only […]
A pastry by any other name . . . Gracious, the beloved New Orleans bakery launched in Gert Town by Megan and Jay Forman over a decade ago, is now under new ownership. Callais Capital Management, a Louisiana-based, venture capital investments firm, has purchased the bakery with promises to keep […]
Dinner and a show and home by 10? Pulcinella! celebrates a year of serving up Sicilian comfort food – and offering sassy burlesque and drag shows for dessert, right upstairs at the Original Nite Cap cabaret. In historic Italian theatre, Pulcinella was a stock character who personifies the “everyman.” His […]