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Canal Street Hyatt Plots Maison Creole, an All-Day Gumbo-and-Beignets Spot

The Hyatt Centric on Canal Street is preparing to debut a new full-service restaurant called Maison Creole at 819 Canal St., with city permit filings outlining an all-day menu built around regional classics like gumbo, étouffée, and blackened redfish. According to WhatNow, the restaurant is slated to offer...

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New Orleans Beignet Fest Returns November 7 With Sweet and Savory Creations

Beignet Fest returns to New Orleans City Park November 7 with sweet and savory beignets, live music, family activities, and free entry for children 10 and younger. The post New Orleans Beignet Fest Returns November 7 With Sweet and Savory Creations appeared first on Timeless Dishes .

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Tea or cocktails? Salon at a gorgeous NOLA mansion-turned-hotel pairs both with tasty bites

The historic mansion at the corner of Prytania Street and Jackson Avenue in the Lower Garden District strikes an impressive pose with its classic lines, rich detail, wrap-around porch and expansive grounds. The views from the inside are pretty captivating too, it turns out, and now there are new ways...

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9th Annual New Orleans Jazz Museum Improv Gala

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Jazz Museum will host its ninth annual Improvisations Gala on Dec. 5, transforming the 400 block of Esplanade Avenue into a holiday-themed celebration featuring live music, cuisine, cocktails and exhibits. Presented by The Herb Alpert Foundation, the fundraiser will take place from 8 to 11 p.m. and will also mark the debut of the museum’s new stage and revitalized grounds, funded through the U.S. Economic Development Administration.

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Ciera Turbinton, Jordan Jones & Marita Blevins and NOCHI hold Yatai Japanese food pop-up

Every graduating class of chefs at the New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute (NOCHI) creates a pop-up restaurant at the school near Harmony Circle. Ciera Turbinton, Marita Blevins and Jordan Jones are on the team that created Yatai, a Japanese street food concept serving a menu of skewered shrimp, udon noodles, chicken katsu and more. The pop-up is open for lunch Tuesday through Friday Nov. 10-13 & 17-20 and Dec. 1-4 & 8-11. Visit nochi.org/yatai for the full menu and reservations.

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What Now New Orleans

NYC-via-NOLA Hospitality Group Selected for Upcoming Waterfront Bar and Restaurant

Crew Hospitality is known for riverside and nautical-themed concepts in New York and New Orleans

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New virtual, instructor-led Pilates studio to open on Magazine Street

Pilates in the Park founder Sierra Mizart is opening a Pilates studio on Magazine Street this fall. Studio P will be open from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m., offering both instructor-led and independent, video-led classes. The studio will have five reformer machines, with two featuring tablets and headphones for virtual classes.

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This Forgotten Building In Louisiana Is Now A Food Lover’s Paradise Worth The Trip

The towering white columns holding up this food hall were rescued from a demolished water works building. Yes, a building borrowed from another building, and it worked beautifully. Now consider why that matters. This market opened in 1875, sat empty for nearly seven years after a hurricane, and still refused...

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Blake Pontchartrain: The rise and fall of the Metairie-born Cucos Mexican restaurant chain

A friend and I were sharing memories of Cucos Mexican restaurant, a favorite of ours in the 1990s. Was it a local or national chain and why the name? My friend remembered it also had some connection to Liuzza’s restaurant?. Cucos was a chain of Mexican restaurants which originated...

Metairie, LA · 7d

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New book ‘compassionately captures’ 1980s AIDS crisis in New Orleans throughout 18 stories

“Skylark,” by William Christy Smith, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 246 pages. I’m a sucker for novels set in 1980s New Orleans, a time and place that shaped my earliest years but which I was far too young to fully absorb. Such is the case with William...

New Orleans, LA · 6d

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Phoenix Grappling Academy Opens in Metairie

METAIRIE — Phoenix Grappling Academy, a new family-owned wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) academy, has opened inside Premier Fitness at 1909 Airline Drive in Metairie. Founded by husband-and-wife team Chuck and Shana Stall, the academy offers classes for children as young as 3 and adults, serving beginners and experienced competitors.

Metairie, LA · 4d

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New 24/7 Pet ER Opens in Old Metairie, Pairs Surgery With Cardiology

A new animal hospital on Metairie Road says it is now treating pets around the clock, combining emergency medicine with cardiology and surgery under one roof in Old Metairie. Blue Dog Veterinary Specialists says it is serving pets and families at 2328 Metairie Road, offering emergency service that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week alongside specialty care in cardiology, critical care, and surgery.

Metairie, LA · 4d

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Louisiana wildfowl come alive in Mandeville

The 47th annual Louisiana Wildfowl Festival drew master carvers, painters and collectors from multiple states to the Castine Center in Mandeville Oct. 23-25 to showcase their skills, compete for top honors, and explore the exhibits of carvings, fine art, antique decoys and other wildlife-inspired works created by a range of artists and artisans. In addition to sharing the art, the yearly gathering provided the chance for old friends to reconnect, hear stories and enjoy the camaraderie experienced by the carving community within this largest and second oldest carving club in North America.

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Fairmont hotel officially opens in New Orleans

Fairmont New Orleans officially opened on Monday, Nov. 2.

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A giraffe at New Orleans’ Audubon Zoo has died

The Audubon Zoo announced Monday, Nov. 2 that one of their giraffes has died.

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Donald Link Named His First Restaurant After the Liqueur New Orleans Invented to Replace Absinthe

When Prohibition killed absinthe, New Orleans answered with an anise liqueur of its own called Herbsaint, and Donald Link borrowed the name for the restaurant that started everything. Herbsaint opened in 2000 at 701 St. Charles Avenue as a partnership between Susan Spicer, who ran Bayona, and Link, her former sous chef. He bought out […]

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Arnaud’s Restaurant Names New Pastry Chef

NEW ORLEANS — Arnaud’s Restaurant has named Jen Giragos its pastry chef, bringing more than 20 years of experience in fine dining restaurants, luxury hotels and private bakeries to the historic New Orleans restaurant. Originally from Southern California, Giragos specializes in plated desserts, custom cakes, chocolate work and sugar artistry.

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Manning Family Children’s Holiday Parade

Who says you have to wait until Carnival season to catch a parade in New Orleans? Around here, we celebrate Christmas the same way we celebrate just about everything else — with colorful floats, marching bands, dancing in the streets, plenty of throws, and admission is free!. The annual...

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Doggie Ice Cream Parlor and Boutique Coming to Magazine Street

Salty Paws NOLA is a local franchisee of a company based in the Northeast