French Quarter Dining Featured Stories

Photo courtesy of Antoine's Restaurant on Facebook A lot of towns have dinner theater, but in New Orleans dinner is theater. This is especially true in the old line Creole restaurants where locals and visitors partake in dining experiences as cultural and theatrical as they are culinary. In...

Photo Courtesy of Louisiana Pizza Kitchen on Facebook Despite its steamy reputation, the weather in New Orleans for most of the year is actually quite mild and pleasant. Winter days and summer nights and mornings often feel just as spring-like as an April afternoon. With this abundance of...

By: Ian McNulty Top to Bottom: Brennan's Restaurant; Bacco Restaurant; Palace Cafe; Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse; Dickie Brennan's Bourbon House New Orleans is famous for its Creole interpretation of French cuisine, but one of the most famous names in the New Orleans culinary scene...

By: Ian McNulty Top to Bottom: Holy Smokes Cafe, Hand-rolled cigars from New Orleans Cigar Factory, Cigar Rolling Demonstration at Cigar Factory, Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse. Cigars may not be native to Louisiana, but they have certainly taken firm root in the city's celebrated...

By: Ian McNulty Top to Bottom: Galatoire's, Antoine's & Brennan's Restaurants Only in New Orleans - and perhaps only at Galatoire's Restaurant (209 Bourbon St., 504-525-2021) - would people greet with apprehension the news that soon they would no longer need to stand in line on...

By: Ian McNulty Visitors who think a clutch of plastic beads, a hurricane glass and an obscene T-shirt are the best they can bring back home from a trip to New Orleans clearly haven’t experienced one of the city’s distinctive cooking schools. Anne Gormly has, and after a lunchtime class...

By: Ian McNulty Top to Bottom: K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen; Chef Paul Prudhomme; Chef Susan Spicer; Bayona Restaurant; Emeril Lagasse's NOLA Restaurant. For the past century, the musicians of New Orleans have used instruments, concert halls and recordings to tell the world about the...

By: Ian McNulty Delicious Culinary Team Creations Food-lovers from casual tourists to cultural scholars have long been fascinated by the long and winding road that is New Orleans’ distinctive culinary heritage, with its rich traditions and polyglot influences. But when it comes to...