Thank you Travel and Leisure for recognizing New Orleans and some of the stuff that make it rock! “Travel + Leisure has proclaimed New Orleans “America’s Best City for Foodies.” The magazine’s September issue, its annual ranking of U.S. cities by desirability, places us at No. 1 in several other categories, including neighborhood joints and cafes; singles/bar scene; cocktail…
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Newly opened in Uptown New Orleans is a bagel store, Artz Bagelz. Art deco design, turquoise colors, salads, sandwiches, and yes of course bagels. Bagels made by Artz who is the owner of the store. The Uptown sandwich has lox, cream cheese, red onions, tomato and capers and it is piled high. A bagel and…
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Recently opened on S. Carollton, the Dragon King Chinese Restaurant has really good Chinese food just like I remember it from New York. One of the things I have been missing here in New Orleans is a really good place for Chinese Food and now I have found one. Dragon King is mostly for take…
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The New Orleans Wine and Food Festival is a 5 day event showcasing 1000 vintages from around the world coupled with food from 100 Chefs at a series of indoor and outdoor events around New Orleans. “The culinary power of our region is so outstanding that we want to showcase our chefs and our food…
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Every city should have a really, really good hot dog stand or cafe and New Orleans has one. The owner was nice enough to let me post this of Donald Trump that is on their website – I thought it was great. Dat Dog Nola, check it out —
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Louisiana’s unique cultural makeup has created two famously original styles of cooking: Creole cuisine and Cajun Cuisine. Creole cuisine has hints of Italian cuisine, and tends towards classical European cooking styles adapted to local ingredients. Examples of Creole cuisine include turtle soup and crawfish etouffee. More well known is Cajun cuisine, which adapts rustic French…
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My husband has found the absolute best paella we have ever had. There is a Spanish restaurant by the name of Barcelona Tapas Cafe which is located on Dublin Street. The restaurant is set back off the street with a ramp to the entry. The food is fabulous. This restaurant has been open for a…
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“MARDIS GRAS is not a parade. Mardis Gras is not girls flashing on French Quarter balconies. Mardis Gras is not an alcoholic binge,” New Orleans native Chris Rose wrote is his book 1 Dead in Attic . “Mardis Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our…
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This weekend is Mardi Gras and so to avoid traffic and mobs of people I went in a different than I usually go to have some coffee and breakfast. This morning I went all the way up Magazine Street past Louisiana and continued until the road splits and I came back around onto the one…
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New Orleans has a lot of really wonderful restaurants. Some are continual go to places when visiting the area and then there are the smaller less known local restaurants. If I went out every day of the week to a different restaurant I would not visit the same place in over a year. The James…
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