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The chef behind Banh Mi Boys is opening a new NOLA restaurant. There won’t be sandwiches.

The team behind Banh Mi Boys is bringing a new restaurant to a vacated hoagie shop in New Orleans, but this Oak Street location won’t be serving sandwiches. Chef and owner Peter Nguyen announced plans on social media Tuesday to take over the building that most recently held PrimoHoagies at 8228 Oak Street, a prime location in the Leonidas neighborhood surrounded by other bars, shops and cafes. While Nguyen said he hopes to have the new sister restaurant up and running by March 2027, he’s keeping many of the specifics under wraps for now.

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New Orleans concerts on Halloween weekend 2026: Widespread Panic, Quantum Leap Fest and more

Music for Halloween weekend includes two nights of a jam band at the Lakefront Arena and a multinight modern jazz festival. In 1997, Georgia jam band Widespread Panic established a tradition of performing at the Lakefront Arena on what is now the LSU New Orleans campus on Halloween weekend. Over the next six years, Panic built up to playing three consecutive nights at the Lakefront Arena. In the early years of the tradition, fans were allowed to camp on the arena grounds, creating a temporary village reminiscent of the parking lots at Grateful Dead concerts.

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Skeleton House honors icons for the spooky season

The New Orleans Skeleton House has become a Halloween tradition with its spooky display and fun pop culture references. Shan Bailey takes us there to see some of the new additions popping up this year.

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New Orleans Wine and Food Experience to host Pour Decisions: 90 Points & Above Wines

The New Orleans Wine and Food Experience is gearing up for its Pour Decisions: 90 Points & Above Wines event.

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Find Louisiana Live Poker Tournaments Taking Place November 2026

NEW ORLEANS (Gambling911.com) - Caesars New Orleans will play host to a WSOP Circuit event during the month of November (2026). Another major WSOP Circuit stop, featuring a $1,700 Main Event with a $500,000 guarantee. Caesars New Orleans offers a recognizable destination for players throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and the Gulf Coast. The WSOP brand and championship-ring opportunities make this a strong tournament for regional coverage.

New Orleans, LA · 10d

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Ghouls Ball returns for Halloween

Calling all ghosts, goblins, and monsters. Ghoul's Ball is back. DJ Ghoulsby tells us all about the arts-festival style Halloween party on Oak Street.

New Orleans, LA · 10d

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These Oysters Wear One of New Orleans’ Richest Toppings

Oysters Rockefeller transforms fresh oysters into a hot, deeply savory appetizer beneath a rich green topping of herbs, butter, and other flavorful ingredients. The oysters remain tender and briny while the topping bakes into a fragrant layer with browned edges. Every shell delivers creamy richness, herbaceous flavor, and ocean salinity in one compact serving. The dish looks sophisticated because the shells provide their own natural presentation, arranged across a tray and baked until bubbling. Created in New Orleans and named for extraordinary richness, Oysters Rockefeller still lives up to that reputation whenever the first shell reaches the table.

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4 New Orleans Kitchens Cooking Southern Comfort Food Without Animals

Vegan cooking in New Orleans has a particular problem to solve. The canon here runs on pork fat, seafood, and roux, and a plant-based kitchen that ignores that is just a salad bar with a local address. These four do not ignore it. 1. Sweet Soulfood - Broad Street The steam table does the talking […]

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One of New Orleans’ best restaurants deserves Michelin recognition. Here’s why I love it.

The menu? Unique. The atmosphere? Spectacular. The service? Fire. The FOOD? Absolutely delicious. I’m talking about Paladar 511, a local hotspot in the Marigny that is one of my favorite restaurants in New Orleans, and I believe it needs more recognition from The Michelin Guide and James Beard Foundation.

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The Cocktail Hour Opens in New Orleans, Reinventing the Guest Shift

The guest shift has had the same tired script for years: a celebrated bar packs up its greatest hits, flies across the world, pours them for a night or two, and goes home. It's a nice marketing moment. It is almost never a creative one. The Cocktail Hour wants to...

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Nina Compton Named This Warehouse District Restaurant After a Caribbean Trickster Rabbit

Compère Lapin takes its name from a mischievous rabbit who outwits bigger animals in Caribbean folk stories, and the restaurant has been telling its own version of that story on Tchoupitoulas Street since 2015. Nina Compton grew up in Saint Lucia and started cooking at a Sandals resort there before moving to the chain's flagship […]

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Grieving Pet Owners Second-Line Through French Quarter This Sunday for Dead Cats, Dogs

Grief for a lost pet doesn’t always fit into polite conversation, but in New Orleans it can fit into a second-line. The NOLA Pet Memorial Second-Line parade returns to the French Quarter this Sunday, Nov. 1, giving mourners a brass band, a route through the Quarter and a chance to carry their departed animals’ memory into the street.

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Chef Kenya Johnson brings bananas Foster beignets and more to New Orleans Beignet Fest

Kenya Johnson grew up on the West Bank and learned to cook at home. A change of career brought her to Atlanta and culinary school at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, and she launched her own catering company, Divine Cuisine. Now she does everything from private chef gigs to weekly pick-up menus. But she loves festivals, and she’ll be at Beignet Fest on Saturday, Nov. 7, at New Orleans City Park’s Festival Grounds. For information about Johnson, go to divinecuisine.org, and find menu updates via @divinecuisinellc on Instagram. For information about Beignet Fest, go to beignetfest.com.

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Compère Lapin Welcomes Back Bartender Alumni

NEW ORLEANS — Some familiar faces are returning to the bar at Compère Lapin this November as the restaurant reunites six former bartenders for a three-night celebration of its cocktail program and the people who helped shape it. The Fighting Bunnies Homecoming Weekend, set for Nov. 7–9, will feature returning alumni Ricky Gomez, Abigail Gullo and four others serving cocktails from their time at the restaurant alongside new creations from its current bar program.

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This Enormous Louisiana Market Spans Six Blocks And Welcomes Shoppers All Year

Six full city blocks. That’s how much ground one Louisiana market covers, and it opens its doors every single day of the year, holidays included. The story behind it reaches back further than the city itself. Native Americans traded goods on this riverside spot long before European settlers arrived. I can’t imagine a better place to shop with that much history under your feet.

New Orleans, LA · 14d

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This Louisiana Italian Bakery Has Been Filling Handmade Cannoli With Fresh Ricotta For Generations

The cannoli here don’t get filled until you order them. That one rule keeps every homemade shell crisp, and I think it says everything about this place. The filling is a sweet ricotta cream, usually half vanilla and half chocolate. Then the ends get dipped in crushed pistachios. A dusting of powdered sugar and cinnamon finishes the job.

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Upscale Japanese Concept Headed to Former Dakar NOLA Space on Magazine Street

Kintsugi is an upcoming Japanese restaurant from the owner of Yakuza House in Metairie

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Class action lawsuit filed in Orleans Parish Civil District Court against DraftKings, FanDuel

A class action lawsuit has been filed in Orleans Parish Civil District Court against online sports betting giants DraftKings and FanDuel. Attorney Jennifer Hoekstra, who represents plaintiffs Adrian Payton, Toi Smith and Yolanda Perkins, says the two companies go to great lengths to keep users addicted to online gambling. “When...