Phillip Lopez of Root plating his version of Thanksgiving dinner.  When it opened in 2011, Root became the talk of New Orleans. Reacti...

Who among us hasn't searched for the ideal po boy spot? I like Freret St. Po Boys, which has dispensed crusty loaves stuffed with deli...

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Sadly the world has moved away from grand fine dining. The hottest restaurants now take few reservations or have some other Byzantine system...

A few years ago, I started hearing rumors about a kitchen of the late nineties early 2000s which served as a graduate school of sorts for to...

There has been a lot of talk about Go Cups lately . I am not sure who started this ruckus; but quite frankly, it has me craving a daiquir...

The Cocktailians have arrived. That's right the mid-summer exodus of bartenders from their home bars to the Monteleone has begun. If you...

Sometimes it is a relatively mild summer afternoon. Perhaps you are all out of beer and wine seems too demanding for the occasion. A cock...

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Just because Matt Weiner has taken his Don Draper ball and gone home for the summer, doesn't mean you need to give up drinking like D...

A collection of cocktails at Bayona Susan Spicer has been a culinary bad ass for about thirty years longer than the cronut will be po...