Issue Articles — Dining Out
Dining Out: Brazilian Grill Steak House
How will you celebrate your Mardi Gras? Will you follow the Buzzards down to St. Charles and then beg Zulu for coconuts? Chase after Indians in the Treme? Or stuff […]
Dining Out: Cafe Freret
Café Freret makes an imposing muffuletta. The massive round loaf, studded with sesame seeds and dusted with Parmesan cheese, sits on the plate like a land mass. It’s split down […]
A Southern Review
Is Southern food just the way we eat in the South? Or is it the way we used to eat? In the lively Southern Belly (Algonquin), first published in 2000 […]
Dining Out: La Vita
In New Orleans, a neighborhood restaurant is often worth a trip across town. It’s the funky joint that gets glossy press and attracts swarms of tourists, who imagine themselves to […]
Almost Everybody…
OffBeat started “Backtalk,” its monthly Q&A in January 1996, when Michael Tisserand interviewed BeauSoleil’s Michael Doucet with brothers Sid and Nathan Williams—the former, the proprietor of El-Sid-O’s; the latter, the […]
Dining Out: Luke
At Luke, chef John Besh has built himself a clubhouse. It’s a place to kick back and eat well without the fussiness of fine dining. The space in the corner […]
Dining Out: Shaggy’s
We are a nation united by our love of processed meat between a bun. At least that’s what I believed before a friend and I tore through the half-dozen different […]
Chef John Besh
This month, Restaurant August celebrates its fifth anniversary. During those years, John Besh, the restaurant’s chef and now owner, became one of the city’s most celebrated chefs and a rising […]
Backstage at Emeril’s
John Boutte walks onto the set of Emeril Live in New York City, tired and triumphant after a sold out show at Joe’s Pub the night before. Leonard “Doc” Gibbs, […]
