The Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival will return for its 50th celebration this weekend, April 8 to 10, at Ponchatoula's Memorial Park and North Sixth Street. It will mark the return of the festival for the first time since 2019. The festival went on hiatus for the 2020 and 2021 season due to Covid shutdowns. You can […]
Beginning Friday, March 4, the Fish Fry Fridays campaign will serve as a fundraising event to benefit Hospitality Cares, a partnership between Louisiana Hospitality Foundation and United Way of Southeast Louisiana (UWSELA). Participating restaurants will donate $1 per fish fry entrée sold each week through April 15. Hospitality Cares is a crisis grant program offering […]
On Wednesday, February 16, New Orleans lost a little bit of its sweetness when Loretta Harrison, founder of the famed Loretta’s Authentic Pralines, died of cancer at age 66. Dubbed “The Praline Queen,” Harrison got her start in her mother’s kitchen in St. Bernard Parish. She made pralines throughout her life using a recipe passed […]
Cora’s Girls Coffee is the new roaster on the New Orleans coffee scene. Owners and sisters Mia Patterson and Kiara Smith started the roaster in August, and it's named in honor of their late mother. Since she was sixteen, Kiara Smith has been in the coffee industry, working as a barista and managing coffee shops […]
The Will and the Way, one of the best bars in French Quarter, is the much-anticipated bar from the LeBlanc + Smith hospitality group, opened on October 15th in the spot that used to be occupied by Longway Tavern, also from LeBlanc + Smith. Robért LeBlanc and Liam Deegan are partners in the venture. General […]
Here in Southeast Louisiana, we take our food seriously. We're hunters, We're fishers. We're cooks. Nothing says love like a homemade Louisiana meal that comes from the kitchen. Whether it's a gumbo, a stock, some game meat, or bone broth, in Louisiana food just means something different. On top of that we are, admittedly, food […]
In the wake of Hurricane Ida, Feed the Second Line is, once again, stepping up to help those most in need in our community. The latest initiative is Stay Lit, a collaboration between Feed the Second Line and Glass Half Full NOLA. The project’s goal is to crowd-fund an installation of solar panels and batteries […]
I first heard about Fam Bizz, and their delicious food, when owner and founder of HTMSports, Devin Snow, visited for his famed "RB&R Mondays". Every Monday, Snow visits a new spot that serves red beans and rice, and ranks it accordingly. When Snow raved about the red beans here, and ranked them in his top […]
In 2005, New Orleans-native Mignon Francois was at a crossroads in her life. She had just moved to Nashville, and she and her family were struggling to make ends meet, after jobs they were promised fell through. "My husband and I had moved to Nashville for a better life for our children," Francois explained. "We […]
Chef Joanna Euraque is building a cheesecake empire, right here in New Orleans. Her company, The Batterina, is whipping up delicious cheesecakes to the delight of dessert fans across the city. Euraque was born and raised in Metairie and attended East Jefferson High School and UNO. She was deciding what she wanted to do with […]
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