Everyone in New Orleans knows how good Drago’s charbroiled oysters are. They remain one of my favorite treats in the city during my lunchtime excursions with friends. On July 11 you can treat yourself to this delicacy and help rebuild New Orleans at the same time. In celebration of Drago Cvitanovich’s 90th Birthday, Drago’s Seafood [...]
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Drago’s Metairie Restaurant’s July 11 Proceeds to Benefit St. Bernard Project
July 3, 2012 – 1:00 pm
New Orleans Oyster Festival in Woldenberg Park This Weekend
May 30, 2012 – 3:57 pm
The New Orleans Oyster Festival is moving off the hot pavement of the Jax Brewery parking lot and into Woldenberg Park (at Conti Street) this year. The festival begins Saturday, June 2 at 1 p.m. and continues Sunday, June 3 from noon to 8:30 p.m. The centerpiece of the fest is of course the food, [...]
New Orleans Oyster Festival: Photos
June 8, 2011 – 11:46 am
The second-annual New Orleans Oyster Festival was held Saturday and Sunday in front of Jax Brewery in the French Quarter. The free festival included music from the Treme Brass Band, Bucktown Allstars, Bag of Donuts, John Popper and the Dusk Ray Trubadors, James Ray Brad, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. and Irma Thomas. [...]
Jazz Fest Seafood One Year After the Oil Spill
May 1, 2011 – 12:20 am
During a memorable set at last year’s Jazz Fest, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam took to the bully pulpit and skewered BP for the disaster that was becoming the Deepwater Horizon. In not-so-kind words, he strongly encouraged BP’s executives to send down their sons and daughters to clean up the oil spill. At that time, [...]
Farewell To Seafood, As I Once Knew It
June 2, 2010 – 5:43 pm
An old friend called me today about some advice. We were chatting, as old friends do, and she suggested lunch, which I gladly agreed on. Then she said, “ I hear that the supply of oysters is supposed to run out next week. I think we should run out and get some before they totally [...]
Hubris
May 19, 2010 – 4:48 pm
I need me some zen. And I don’t mean the absinthe, either. I’m worried about New Orleans and the Louisiana Gulf Coast. There’s an oil spill out there that will most certainly negatively impact not only the quality of my life, but my children’s. It’s another Katrina, except we haven’t experienced its full impact yet. [...]
Tasty, Cold and Firm: Slurpin’ Up the Best Raw Oysters
April 1, 1993 – 12:01 am
The big question I always ponder about oysters is, what motivated the person who first picked up this rock-like thing from the bottom of some primordial lagoon and decided to crack it open and eat the gray amorphous blob within? Perhaps it was the labia-like appearance that served as the enticement. (While the connection of [...]
