“People would come in, four to a table, and say, ‘Four blackened redfish. We got to a point where we literally limited blackened redfish to one to a table. And we’d usually convince them to order one as an appetizer and everybody would taste it” READ MORE
K Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen is in the French Quarter in a beautiful Creole townhouse. It was the flagship restaurant of the late, groundbreaking Cajun chef Paul Prudhomme, who brought Cajun food out of the countryside and into New Orleans, and then to the whole nation. I really recommend this oral history of Paul Prudhomme from […]
I came to New Orleans to bring back inspiration and ideas from the Crescent City. This is what I came up with. READ MORE
The New Orleans Feast menu will run on the 16th and 17th of May, at The Varsity Club, on the Oxford High Street. The night will celebrate the food, the music and the libations of the Crescent City. Tickets are £30 and that includes the four courses listed above as well as a cocktail of […]
Saffron NOLA is an Indian restaurant with a New Orleans accent. They make some of the best Indian food I’ve had anywhere. READ MORE
Saffron NOLA is an Indian restaurant with a New Orleans accent. They make some of the best Indian food I’ve had anywhere.
Just across Canal St from the French Quarter are the refurbished factories and stockyards of the Warehouse District. Cochon, and its Executive Chef Donald Link, are right at home there. Cochon cooks Cajun food, the down-home, country-style cuisine of Louisiana. READ MORE
Nominally, Shaya is an Israeli restaurant, but the menu features dishes that make reference to origins in Morocco and Bulgaria and all points in between – a nine-hour wide clock sweep around the Mediterranean for influences. READ MORE
“We’ll lowball ’em. We start with the sweet potato, andouille shrimp soup. Then we get the rabbit kidneys out of the freezer – they’re tiny, they’re gonna thaw fast. We skewer them with some lardons of the Benton’s bacon. Then we hit ’em with sweetbreads and crawfish over grits. And how about this for the […]
One Mardi Gras a red beans aficionado dedicated an old jacket, two weeks of his life and a whole lot of hot glue to celebrating his love of red beans in costume form. It was such a hit he decided that next year, he’d have his own red beans themed parade. READ MORE
