Issue Articles — OffBeat Eats
Dining Out: Café Amelie
Walking the French Quarter’s cramped streets, I sometimes glimpsed more expansive spaces. Beyond the clumps of tourists who seemed to have multiplied in recent months, private oases of fountains and […]
Dining Out: Tucker’s Tavern
Two guys jogged past me as I approached Tucker’s Tavern. They were getting a midday workout and I was headed to the home of the deep-fried burger. I felt guilty […]
Don’t Fear the Green Space
It’s seven o’clock at night in the Lower Ninth Ward. What is there to eat? “Nothing is open,” says Greta Gladney, 42, who founded the Renaissance Project in 2001 to […]
Dining Out: Dunbar’s
At Dunbar’s new location inside Loyola’s Broadway Activity Center, you’re not likely to see a meeting of officers from Zulu. And at the original location on Freret, I don’t remember […]
Cook Me Something, Mister
On Twelfth Night, members of the Garden District Citizens Command Post gathered to plot their strategy for Carnival. Laminated signs had been printed. A port-a-potty had been rented. Last year, […]
Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement Award in Music Education: Harold Battiste
The words “The Future of Our Past” printed on the upper right cover of Harold Battiste’s sheet music/workbook, The Silverbook, speak volumes about the musician and the man. Generally, when […]
What’s in a Name?: Michael Sichel of 7 on Fulton
“I’m listening, I’m listening. Michael Sichel bounces around the kitchen at 7 on Fulton, where he took over as Executive Chef in October. Tall, thin, with a crop of tight […]
Dining Out: Jazz Tacos
I was prowling the French Quarter one afternoon last August, when a food writer friend called with a tip to check out Jazz Tacos. On the way over, I stopped […]
Gabrielle’s Fate
In September,Chef Greg Sonnier returned from a frustrating trip to City Hall, hung a “For Sale” on the banquet facility he had purchased Uptown on Henry Clay Avenue and Laurel […]
