Issue Articles
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 […]
Howard Wiley, The Angola Project (Independent)
Howard Wiley’s The Angola Project is full of anger, bitterness, sorrow, joy and beautiful music. Inspired by Louisiana’s Angola State Penitentiary, which he calls “one of the last hold […]
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 […]
The Go-Between
Mischa Byruck melts butter in a pan as he slices eggplant and oyster mushrooms for lunch. The butter comes from Smith Creamery, the eggplant from Christine Monica and the mushrooms […]
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 […]
Fragile History
We know what New Orleans would be like without Angelo Brocato. For 13 months after the storm, it remained closed and there were no ices, no gelato and no fig […]
