Bacchanal, in spite of its name, stands in gentle rebuke to a city compelled by excesses. The menu is Mediterranean restraint and the drinks are more for sipping than quaffing. What is generous is the spirit READ MORE
For Bookings, Click Here Read More About the Menu As anyone who has been following me here on the blog or anywhere on social media will know, I have been having an absolute blast on my culinary tour of New Orleans. But as much as I’m enjoying myself, I didn’t come here just for me. […]
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.
Uptown, on the west side of the city (“Up” being a river direction in New Orleans), is host to enough excellent restaurants to overflow the page of a moleskine notebook devoted to listing them. And if you go asking every waiter, barfly and streetcar-rider the best place to eat in town, one of the names […]
In the leafy uptown suburbs near Audoban park is a quaint, romantic, neighborhood restaurant that serves classic French food with a local accent: Patois. On the last day of my New Orleans trip last year, I treated my brother, my best friend and our NOLA host to dinner at Patois. It had come recommended to […]
The Krewe of Red Beans was started by Devin De Wulf, a red beans aficionado and transplant to New Orleans from Charleston by way of Brazil. One Mardi Gras he 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 […]
Strike out east from the red-light charms of the French Quarter and keep going through the hipster homes and pop-art covered renovated warehouses of the Bywater. When your way is blocked by a hulkingly functional wall of freight train cars, turn around and you will see a distressed brickwork and plaster building that looks just […]
Through a combination of a beloved tv show, an adventurous brother, the organisational skills of two perfect strangers and a best friend with some annual leave to use up, I found myself in New Orleans for almost two weeks over Halloween. It was the trip of a lifetime to a city whose blend of food, […]
Between my three months in New Orleans and the Autumn Run, it’s been a long time since I’ve had the chance to experiment with anything new, and therefore a long time since I’ve done any pay-what-you-want dates. But they’ll be back very soon – new dates for the new year, and I have over six months […]
Jack’s plan was to have a little summer back garden barbecue party, until he let things got a bit out of hand. Inspired by Oxford’s expansive literary tradition, Greek and Roman hedonistic drunken celebrations and the gentle excesses of a New Orleans establishment of the same name, Bacchanal morphed into a fantastic fairy tale fever-dream […]
