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Top New Orleans restaurants, music venues to visit during Tulane Family Weekend

Tulane University is hosting family weekend, homecoming and class reunions from Nov. 5 to 8, giving students the perfect opportunity to show family and friends around one of the most culturally unique cities in the U.S. Here’s your guide to the best activities and restaurants for the weekend. Live...

New Orleans, LA · 10d

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The Return of the Cheesecake Queen

A cheesecake can be more than a dessert. For Raquel Masters, it is years of family tradition and legacy passed down to her through a recipe. Raquel, a third generation baker and graduate from Fletcher Community College, always had a love for baking. After getting her business degree, she said everything lined up for her to revitalize her mom’s business.

Thibodaux, LA · 10d

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This Family-Owned Local Dining ICON Has Been Winning Hearts Since 1994 in Houma, LA

Open Sun–Thu, 10:30 AM–9 PM; Fri–Sat, 10:30 AM–10 PM. Down in Louisiana’s bayou country, a restaurant named after two folk-tale Cajun characters has been feeding Houma since the late 1990s. 🦐. Boudreau & Thibodeau’s Cajun Cookin’ is a family-owned Cajun restaurant in Houma, LA, famous...

Houma, LA · 9d

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14 Top Restaurants In New Orleans, Louisiana Worth The Trip In 2026

I keep thinking about a dessert that gets set on fire right at the table. It was invented in New Orleans in the 1950s, and people still order it today. That tells me Louisiana takes its food seriously. Some dishes come with a show. Others come with decades of stories,...

New Orleans, LA · 15d

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This No-Nonsense New Orleans, Louisiana, Counter Has Been Serving Classic Po-Boys Since 1922

Every single week, a kitchen in Louisiana slow-cooks more than 1,000 pounds of roast beef and stirs up over 50 gallons of gravy. That’s not a typo, and it’s not a holiday special either. Put that into perspective for a second: all that gravy has one main job, which is soaking straight into a loaf of French bread.

New Orleans, LA · 12d

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We Ranked 11 Louisiana Restaurants With Mississippi River Views Worth Savoring

One Louisiana barbecue spot starts serving breakfast at 3:30 in the morning. That’s before most roosters bother to clock in. Grab a seat outside, and big ships drift past just over the levee. Another river town spot opens at 4 a.m. for Cajun barbecue. Some of us can barely find the coffee pot by then.

Louisiana · 12d

Easy Everyday Recipes

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5 Historic U.S. Restaurants That Offer a Truly Memorable Meal

Some restaurants serve a great meal, while others offer a chance to experience a little...

Boston, MA · 12d

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Is Vampire Café ghoulishly good or a gimmick? Here’s what I thought as a New Orleans native.

It wasn’t the flimsy blood bags flowing with ‘fangria,’ the paper bats dangling from chandeliers or the obscure psychedelic music blaring overheard that first caught my attention at New Orleans Vampire Cafe. It was, rather, the people there. The host stood in front of a snaking line...

New Orleans, LA · 12d

ITALY Magazine

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Meet La Muffuletta, the American Sandwich With a Sicilian Soul

We often associate the great 19th- and early 20th-century migration of Italians to the United States with Ellis Island and the Northeast. But there’s another chapter in the Italian-American story that unfolded down south, along the muddy banks of the Mississippi River in New Orleans. Its memory lives on in the tangy flavors of the muffuletta — a sesame seed-studded panino filled with cured meats, provolone or Swiss cheese, and briny olive salad. For 120 years, it’s been one of the Crescent City’s signature meals — all thanks to Sicilian ingenuity.

New Orleans, LA · 19d

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The Most Beloved Bar in New Orleans Is Still the Real Deal

From Mardi Gras to second lines, New Orleans knows how to let the good times roll. The French Quarter remains one of the city’s most historically rich and charming neighborhoods, but Bourbon Street — with its wall-to-wall T-shirt shops and neon-colored slushies — has a reputation for being a tourist mecca void of personality. But just off the infamous strip, no-frills dive bar Erin Rose has been slinging the city’s best frozen Irish Coffees for 25 years. It’s become a favorite of locals and pro bartenders alike.

New Orleans, LA · 14d

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This Louisiana Country Market Packs Fresh Produce, Boudin, Cracklins And Homemade Treats

A whole roadside business grew out of a 5-acre strawberry patch and the back of a pickup truck. That alone makes me smile. Now the same family sells boudin, hot cracklins, and gator sausage under one roof. The shelves keep going from there. Jams, jellies, honey, and boiled peanuts share...

Raceland, LA · 15d

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Roosevelt New Orleans Opens Café Alice

NEW ORLEANS — The Roosevelt New Orleans, A Waldorf Astoria Hotel, has opened Café Alice, a new all-day dining concept in the French Quarter hotel. Replacing the former Teddy’s Café, the European-style café and bar features a menu developed by Executive Chef Daniel Mills and Pastry Chef Kareena Dennis, with coffee, house-made pastries, breakfast dishes, savory small plates and cocktails.

New Orleans, LA · 13d

WGNO

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First-ever ALDI grocery store to open in River Ridge

Popular, affordable grocery store ALDI will be opening its first-ever store in River Ridge next month.

River Ridge, LA · 12d

NOLA.com

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Brothers who transformed NYC waterfront dining bringing open-air restaurant to NOLA riverfront

A New York-based hospitality group with deep New Orleans ties is bringing an open-air restaurant overlooking the Mississippi River to the Audubon Nature Institute’s Goldring Woldenberg Park, a key development in Audubon’s ongoing effort to open the downtown riverfront to entertainment and recreational use. Audubon officials announced Friday...

New Orleans, LA · 13d

The Call Of

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A Vacant 1860s Building on Canal Street Now Turns Out a Barrel of Rye a Day

A Creole apothecary named Antoine Amédée Peychaud mixed bitters at his Royal Street pharmacy in the 1830s, and the drink that came out of it eventually got its own building. The Sazerac House opened in October 2019 at the corner of Canal and Magazine, a few hundred yards from the original Sazerac Coffee House. The […]

New Orleans, LA · 13d

What Now New Orleans

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Banh Mi Boys Founder Teasing ‘Sister’ Concept for Uptown

Like Banh Mi Boys,, the upcoming Uptown fast-casual spot will combine Southern and Asian influences

New Orleans, LA · 11d

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Bar Pomona cosplays as a famous steakhouse every Halloween. This year is extra special.

If you visit Bar Pomona on a typical night, you’ll find casually dressed cooks chatting up customers as they pour glasses of natural wine and plate light dishes of braised white beans and tinned fish from behind the kitchen counter. On Oct. 31, you’ll find a different kind of...

New Orleans, LA · 13d

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WYES-TV Juleps and Generosity Gala

WYES-TV put its own fresh spin on the Kentucky Derby — which had been a few days earlier — at its annual gala titled, “Juleps and Generosity.”. This version of the Run for the Roses was held May 7 at the WYES Paulette and Frank Stewart Innovation Center for Educational Media, and guests did not disappoint in their Derby-flair attire — fascinators and hats (men and women) were de rigueur.

New Orleans, LA · 13d

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A brand new Mississippi Coast restaurant gets Michelin nod, joins list with 3 other hotspots

A Mississippi Coast restaurant open for less than six months has scored a recommendation from the Michelin Guide, joining a small list of hotspots with the same designation. Maringouin, a farm-to-table Southern fusion restaurant inside The Roost Boutique Hotel in Ocean Springs, joins the prestigious list of dozens of recommended restaurants across the American South, which includes New Orleans.

Ocean Springs, MS · 21d

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From a New Orleans Candy Shop to a Ponchatoula Factory: Elmer Chocolate's Christmas Season Starts Nov. 1

Plenty of Louisiana stockings could end up holding a box of chocolates made in Ponchatoula this year, and the company behind it has been at the candy business for more than 170 years. Started in New Orleans. Elmer Chocolate traces its roots to Christopher Henry Miller, who came to the...

Ponchatoula, LA · 15d