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| Toast the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition on Saturday, Dec. 6 12/05/2008 |
| Chris Granger / The Times-PicayuneA Sazerac at The Napoleon House in New Orleans Every time I hear Louis Armstrong I want a cocktail. More specifically, a Sazerac. I can't explain this Pavlovian response except to say that it seems to... Read More |
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| New Orleans Ballet Theatre's 'Nutcracker' is the first of the season 11/27/2008 |
| Chuck Cook / The Times-Picayune ArchiveMice and the Nutcracker's soldiers wait to go onstage before a recent Delta Festival Ballet production of The Nutcracker in Slidell. No matter what the meteorologists might say, the long-term forecast across the metro area... Read More |
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| New Orleans food and music on display at annual Mirliton festival in the Bywater 11/07/2008 |
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| Bones are the skeleton in the culinary closet 10/30/2008 |
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| Kyoto 10/22/2008 |
| Kyoto 4920 Prytania St. 504.891.3644 New Orleans' sushi scene is old enough to have spawned some modest restaurants where the food eclipses what you find at places with the resources to invest in interior designers. Kyoto stands out Uptown, an... Read More |
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| Martinique Bistro 10/22/2008 |
| Martinique Bistro 5908 Magazine St. 504.891.8495 Martinique Bistro takes its name and culinary direction from Hubert Sandot, the restaurant's founder, who was born in Madagascar to a French mother and a father from Martinique. French-born Cristiano Raggignone bought the restaurant... Read More |
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| Chateau du Lac 10/22/2008 |
| Chateau du Lac 2037 Metairie Road Metairie 504.831.3773 At Chateau du Lac, chef Jacques Saleun revels in the possibilities of classic French cuisine where so many others would bristle. The French-born chef's steak au poivre, mustard-crusted rack of lamb and... Read More |
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| Cafe Degas 10/22/2008 |
| Cafe Degas 3127 Esplanade Ave. 504.945.5635 The kitchen at this funky, almost-open-air cafe masters the staples -- onion soup, steamed mussels, salad Nicoise -- while still giving itself license to be expansive with its specials. This explains the lamb satay... Read More |
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| La Petite Grocery 10/22/2008 |
| La Petite Grocery 4238 Magazine St. 504.891.3377 Justin Devillier accepted the position at the head of La Petite Grocery's kitchen at the same time the restaurant was striving for a closer resemblance to a traditional French bistro. He has managed... Read More |
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| Luke 10/22/2008 |
| Luke 333 St. Charles Ave. 504.378.2840 Is it possible that a restaurant serving gumbo, raw oysters, crab meat ravioli and redfish meuniere is filling a niche? It is when they're injected into John Besh's vision of a New Orleans brasserie,... Read More |
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| Horinoya 10/22/2008 |
| Horinoya 920 Poydras St. 504.561.8914 Japanese cuisine lives and dies on freshness, sure, but also on its creator's capacity for precision. Nowhere in New Orleans is this more clear than at Horinoya. It's hard to find an item on the... Read More |
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| Takumi 10/22/2008 |
| Takumi 2800 Magazine St. 504.265.0421 Yusuke Kawahara is one of the people responsible for turning New Orleanians on to sushi. He's been behind more than a few area Japanese restaurants in the past 20 or so years, most of them... Read More |
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| Kanno 10/22/2008 |
| Kanno 3205 Edenborn Ave. Metairie 504.455.5730 New Orleans' sushi scene is old enough to have spawned some modest restaurants where the food eclipses what you find at places with the resources to invest in interior designers. Kyoto stands out Uptown,... Read More |
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| Yuki Izakaya 10/22/2008 |
| Yuki Izakaya 525 Frenchmen St. no phone An Izakaya is a kind of Japanese pub that also serves a small menu of specialized dishes. Yuki is Yuki Yamaguchi, the Japanese woman who introduced the concept to New Orleans when she... Read More |
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| Ristorante da Piero 10/22/2008 |
| Ristorante da Piero 401 Williams Blvd. Kenner 504.469.8585 One of the area's most unusual Italian restaurants is in an improbable spot: next door to the Kenner Planetarium & Megadome, in a cottage that could have been decorated by your neat-nick... Read More |
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| Eleven 79 10/22/2008 |
| Eleven 79 1179 Annunciation St. 504.299.1179 Eleven 79 is the kind of restaurant where waiters talk about the food in the kind of militaristic tones quarterbacks adopt when calling plays in the huddle. Pastas are the beneficiaries of some of... Read More |
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| Mosca's 10/22/2008 |
| Mosca's 4137 Highway 90 West Avondale 504.436.9942 You know the drill. If you're coming from the east bank, a breath-holding trip across the Huey P. Long Bridge is most likely required. It will be worth it. You'll start smelling the... Read More |
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| Irene's Cuisine 10/22/2008 |
| Irene's Cuisine 539 St. Philip St. 504.529.8811 It's impossible not to compare Irene's with Tommy's Cusine. Irene's came first, drawing crowds to the Quarter by weaving personality into a classic Creole-Italian repertoire with dishes like its Gulf fish cioppino and... Read More |
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| Tommy's Cuisine 10/22/2008 |
| Tommy's Cuisine 746 Tchoupitoulas St. 504.581.1103 It's impossible not to compare Tommy's with Irene's Cuisine. Irene's came first, drawing crowds to the Quarter by weaving personality into a classic Creole-Italian repertoire with dishes like its Gulf fish cioppino and oysters... Read More |
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| Dong Phuong Oriental Bakery 10/22/2008 |
| Dong Phuong Oriental Bakery 14207 Chef Menteur highway eastern New Orleans 504.254.0296 Ever wonder how completely Vietnamese cuisine has embedded itself in New Orleans? Drop by Dong Phuong Oriental Bakery just after Sunday services let out at the Mary Queen... Read More |
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