Peter: OK, I'll admit that I knew exactly what this wine was just by looking at the red neck of the bottle. This is the best bottle of ...

Rene : A very smooth, well balanced white wine similar to a white burgundy, but different. I get some very slight oak, which makes the wine ...

After graduating high school in New Orleans, Joe Briand enrolled at Loyola and began working in restaurants. Eventually he found his way to...

Peter : Good juice. Easy drinking, with not a lot of tannins. Want to take this to the East, via the West Bank so thinking the Korean style ...

Last year the most surprising meal of the year took place on the second to last night of the year at Le Foret. This year, it took place last...

"Corkage" is a fancy term for bringing your own bottle of wine into a restaurant. You may often hear the term "corkage fee....

No one will argue that the game was forever changed on August 29, 2005. As we approach the five year anniversary of that fateful day, no sma...

Frank Brigtsen can cook. Brigtsen's cooking is not the refined technicality of Le Foret or the whimiscal creationism of Stella! You won...

Carnival has arrived and with it another Blackened Out Feature. As Carnival traditionally was a time to bid adieu to meat, every week we wil...

"Success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan." -Mickey Mouse If Mickey Mouse is correct, then this dish has three fat...

Once or twice a year, the loyal denizens of this cyber dark alley gather at a predetermined spot to drink and nibble on victuals. These even...

This soup was inspired by a soup served at both Stella! and Vizard's. If you omit the pork in both the soup and the broccoli, you have q...

Let's get one thing straight. It was not an easy decision by Peter and I to write this piece. We went to Stanley recently with the inten...

A few months ago, we chronicled our experience at the Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Dinner at Stella! . What we alluded to was the utter pr...

The weekend got off to a great start. After work on Friday, headed over to Le Bucket's to sample his latest homebrew. A Lemongrass wheat...

Loads going on this weekend. Besides the relief of New Orleans being "spared," Lindsay and I will attempt to tackle the tasting me...

The Pope emailed me yesterday with this suggestion: "I think you and Rene should do a blog asking that if Monday was your last day on e...

Last Thursday our rowdy crew of Turks descended upon Stella! for the Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Dinner. Stella! is an absolutely beautif...

I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyo...

If you are still on the fence as to whether or not you would like to join us on July 17th as we celebrate the Tales of the Cocktail Spirited...