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Midnight Menu +1

Hosted ByRay Cannata & Margo Moss

Ray Cannata has eaten at over 750 New Orleans restaurants, so he knows a thing or two about hanging out. Margo Moss has turned Ted's Frostop from a greasy spoon into a considerably less greasy but not quite silver spoon. When the sun goes down on The NOLA Brewing Tap Room in the Irish Channel, Ray and Margo entertain members of New Orleans restaurant community. Their guests bring along a friend, a +1. Anything can happen.

Meat: A Love Story – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

July 8, 2014 Midnight Menu +1 Comments Off on Meat: A Love Story – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Chef Rob Bechtold loves his meat smoker so much he sleeps with it. Well, next to it. And gets up every half hour to tend to the flames.

emily bechtold, chef rob bechtold

Apparently you can taste the love and dedication in every bite because Chef Rob and wife Emily’s NOLA Smokehouse sells out of barbq every single day.

nola smokehouse love story

Rob and Emily met on that romantic boulevard, Veterans Highway in Metairie, at the short-lived take-out for foodies Mecca, Foodies. Rob was a sous chef and Emily was making her first foray into pastries. Foodies came and went, Rob and Emily bounced around the New Orleans restaurant scene till Katrina bounced them out of town.

Obsessed with coming back to New Orleans and opening a barbecue restaurant, Rob and Emily started out with a couple of pop-ups before settling on their new home on Jackson Avenue near the river. Along the way Rob found his Buddhist path and his penchant for Bonsai.

rob bechtold

This is a true story of love, enlightenment, and smoked meat.