Issue Articles — Dining Out
Dining Out: New Orleans Cake Café and Bakery
I was having a hard morning in the Marigny, and I blame it all on New Orleans Cake Café and Bakery. Mulling over the menu and the white board of […]
Dining Out: Whole Hog Cafe
Can you find great gumbo outside this state? I imagine that many Louisiana exiles have located passable gumbo elsewhere. When they long for home, they can order a foreign-born bowl […]
Dining Out: World’s Healthiest Pizza
World’s Healthiest Pizza, a New Orleans-based chain, is far from meek. Its Web site preaches the miracles of fiber. Customers don’t offer endorsements; they testify about reaching “dietary nirvana” through […]
Dining Out: Brazilian Grill Steak House
How will you celebrate your Mardi Gras? Will you follow the Buzzards down to St. Charles and then beg Zulu for coconuts? Chase after Indians in the Treme? Or stuff […]
Dining Out: Cafe Freret
Café Freret makes an imposing muffuletta. The massive round loaf, studded with sesame seeds and dusted with Parmesan cheese, sits on the plate like a land mass. It’s split down […]
A Southern Review
Is Southern food just the way we eat in the South? Or is it the way we used to eat? In the lively Southern Belly (Algonquin), first published in 2000 […]
Dining Out: La Vita
In New Orleans, a neighborhood restaurant is often worth a trip across town. It’s the funky joint that gets glossy press and attracts swarms of tourists, who imagine themselves to […]
Almost Everybody…
OffBeat started “Backtalk,” its monthly Q&A in January 1996, when Michael Tisserand interviewed BeauSoleil’s Michael Doucet with brothers Sid and Nathan Williams—the former, the proprietor of El-Sid-O’s; the latter, the […]
Dining Out: Luke
At Luke, chef John Besh has built himself a clubhouse. It’s a place to kick back and eat well without the fussiness of fine dining. The space in the corner […]
