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M Bistro
After a brush with death, a chef brings new life to a hotel kitchen
M Bistro The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 921 Canal St., 670-2828; www.ritzcarlton.com/neworleans
By Ian McNulty |
February 1, 2010
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Le Foret makes an ambitious debut in the CBD
Quiet reserve isn't a virtue that usually constrains new restaurateurs, especially those who may have reason to believe they're bringing something different and extraordinary to the dining scene. Yet that is what has marked the young, promising life of Le Foret.
By Ian McNulty |
January 18, 2010
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Tastee Bones Barbecue
A Franklin Avenue smokehouse offers Slow cooking and fast lunches
No type of restaurant teases the anticipation quite like a good barbecue joint. The presence of smoking meat should fill the air with heavy, compelling aroma and fill the nose with expectation.
By Ian McNulty |
January 11, 2010
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Green Goddess
Two chefs, a tiny space and one eclectic dining experience
WHAT Green Goddess
By Ian McNulty |
January 4, 2010
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The Year in Dining
A rich and diverse wave of restaurants joined the dining scene in 2009
Discouraging economic reports seemed inescapable this year, but
narrow the focus to local restaurant news and you might have thought
2009 was a boom time.
By Ian McNulty |
December 28, 2009
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French Market Dining
A mix of new ventures and familiar faces have expanded the food options at the French Market
French Market 1100 N. Peters St., 522-2621
By Ian McNulty |
December 21, 2009
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Charlie's Seafood
A veteran chef reinvigorates a neighborhood stalwart
Frank Brigtsen says family dinners at Charlie's Seafood as a child
during the 1950s were his very first restaurant experiences. But
Brigtsen's culinary career followed quite different lines than
Charlie's bedrock of boiled and fried seafood.
By Ian McNulty |
December 14, 2009
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Stanley
Scott Boswell's Stanley has the right flavors for the right place
Stanley is like a model who is so pretty he doesn't need to be smart
to succeed, but this is a smart restaurant, too, and that makes it a
double threat.
By Ian McNulty |
December 7, 2009
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Domenica
Domenica Spans the Italian culinary map
The Roosevelt Hotel will surely be busy this month as its "winter
wonderland" lobby of holiday decor returns.
By Ian McNulty |
November 30, 2009
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New Orleans Cake Cafe
A once-wandering baker feathers his Marigny nest with frosting
Steve Himelfarb made his name in New Orleans as a man on the move.
By Ian McNulty |
November 16, 2009
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Sandro's Trattoria
A Metairie restaurant proves a neutral ground between two popular styles of Italian dining
The downtown dining buzz right now is fixed on a pair of new Italian
restaurants, Domenica and A Mano. Drawing on highly specific regional
dishes, each is a welcome flip side to the beloved-but-predictable
Creole-Italian fare that dominates the local red-sauce circuit.
By Ian McNulty |
November 9, 2009
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Panda King
Dim sum carts and Chinese cuisine at a sprawling West Bank eatery
I thought I had Panda King pegged the first time I saw its glowing
sign and semi-imperial facade shining from a Terrytown strip mall.
By Ian McNulty |
November 2, 2009
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Madrid Restaurant
Paella and tapas turn up at an unlikely Lakeview den
There aren't many areas where an upscale Spanish restaurant could
begin slinging paella in a former convenience store and still seem to
fit right in. Fortunately for the second incarnation of Madrid
Restaurant, post-Katrina Lakeview is one of those areas.
By Ian McNulty |
October 26, 2009
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Rum House
Rum and tacos highlight a restaurant navigating treacherous waters
Rum House restaurant styles itself as a Caribbean taqueria, which
translates as a cantina with lots of rum punch and other tropes of an
island vacation resort.
By Ian McNulty |
October 19, 2009
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Ciro's Cote Sud
French classics and crowd-pleasing pizza share the bill at a cozy Uptown cafe
WHAT Ciro's Côté Sud
By Ian McNulty |
October 12, 2009
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Sammy's Food Service & Deli
A Creole treasure trove hides in plain view in Gentilly
The next time visitors drop in and need a quick, no-fuss crash
course in New Orleans flavor, I'm taking them straight to Gentilly to
visit my new crush. We'll get shrimp-and-mirliton soup, maybe seafood
gumbo and certainly we'll split a heaping combo of shrimp remoulade and
crabmeat ravigote, doing business here under the deceptively mundane
name of stuffed tomato salad.
By Ian McNulty |
October 5, 2009
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Pho Orchid
Options abound on Metairie's widest-ranging Vietnamese menu
WHAT Pho Orchid
By Ian McNulty |
September 28, 2009
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Il Posto Italian Cafe
Simple elegance and Italian flavors define a backstreet cafe
WHAT Il Posto Italian Cafe
By Ian McNulty |
September 21, 2009
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Ralph's on the Park
A new chef and new flavors are turning heads
There's an air of stately permanence at Ralph's on the Park, one
that restaurants many times its age often don't achieve. It may come
from the bones of the 1860s-era building Ralph Brennan extensively
renovated to open his most ambitious restaurant in late 2003, and it's
surely abetted by the timeless grace of neighboring City Park.
By Ian McNulty |
September 8, 2009
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The Store
Offbeat specials keep an upscale CBD deli jamming
If you want to show visiting out-of-towners a vignette of New
Orleans as a bustling city of young, well-groomed professionals, take
them to The Store on any given weekday at lunchtime. That's when this
small, casual, CBD spot buzzes with law firm junior associates, bank
assistant vice presidents and nonprofit executive directors
By Ian McNulty |
August 29, 2009
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