Tonight’s challenge: show up without a reservation and convince the maitre ‘d that you can eat and clear his only empty table before a 7:15 reservation. That’s exactly what happened when we arrived at Miso Isakaya. We succeeded on both counts – on getting the table, and on getting out by 6:45. After the fantastic […]
In conversation with several of the folks I work with, I had mentioned that we were going to Willie Mae’s for lunch on Friday. Several said “if you’re going to Willie Mae’s for chicken, you really need to go to Dooky Chases’s Restaurant“. So after roaming around several of the suburbs on a shopping expedition, […]
Willie Mae’s Scotch House has been on my “to-try” list on the last half dozen trips to New Orleans, but business concerns haven’t aligned with the ability to get there. I first read about it in Garden & Gun’s “100 Southern Foods You Absolutely, Positively Must Try Before You Die”, several years back and today, […]
We originally had reservations elsewhere for our third dinner in NOLA, but one of folks that I work with there told me that I really needed to think about going to Restaurant R’evolution, instead. He knows that I like to eat (a huge understatement) and he persuaded me. To the point of me seeing if […]
Before we left for a business trip for NOLA, I consulted my sources and made some plans. Cross referencing my list with places that took reservations, I locked in three places for dinner, with the middle night being at Coquette. We ended up just down Magazine Street from the previous night’s meal at Le […]
The first nice dinner in NOLA was at Le Petite Grocery, which ended up being Jo’s favorite meal of the week. Located Uptown, on Magazine, this restaurant opened in 2004 in a building that had housed a grocery store, under one set of owners or another, for more than a century. Executive Chef (since 2007) […]
Arriving in New Orleans, fairly late, on Monday evening, and looking for a quick dinner, Hamburger America sent us to Port of Call, a bar (there’s no other word for it) on Esplanade. I called to check their hours, afraid they might close at nine and found that they were only open until midnight, since […]
Over the last several months, I’ve been following the prospective opening of Le Fat in the local food press. Earlier this week, I had seen them appear in the Easter 38 and realized that they were open (they had opened around the first of April). This afternoon, as we were wandering through our Saturday, […]
With an afternoon meeting in Buckhead, and a need for lunch, the stars aligned for a visit to Bones. Bones has been a Buckhead fixture for over 35 years and is one of the places you go for a “power lunch” in the city. On this occasion though, I wasn’t looking for a “power lunch”, […]
I was a couple of days into my own Burger Week, following the recent passing of Ms. Anne, and ready for another burger. I have absolutely no idea where I heard about the burger at Augustine’s. That is a rare thing for me – I usually remember what put some place on my list, or […]
Burgers, Barbecue and Everything Else 