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Your Secret Life – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

When we get up and go to work each day, most of us assume that everyone else going to work is a decent person like ourselves. Even if we have competitors, our basic assumption is that they’re okay people – after all, they’re doing the same thing we are. That’s not what going to work…

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Battle Maiden Canada – Happy Hour – It’s New Orleans

Sasha Masakowski doesn’t look all that fierce. But she doesn’t look like she hangs out in strip clubs either. Looks can be deceiving. Sasha’s middle name is Hildegard, German for Battle Maiden, which is not coincidentally the name of her newest music venture, Hildegarde. And if you go to Deja Vu strip club on Bourbon…

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Bistro to Baja – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

When acclaimed Boston chef Dustin Brien mistakenly applied for a job as a line cook at Salu restaurant on Magazine in Uptown New Orleans neither he nor the equally confused owner understood what either of them was thinking. Once they got the confusion sorted out, the restaurant owners decided to ditch their plans to hire…

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The Art of Buildings – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

New Orleans is a beautiful city. But very little of that beauty is natural. Even our magnificent parks and tree lined avenues are planned and planted. Mostly, when we talk about the beauty of New Orleans, we’re talking about buildings. Almost every commercial building has some sort of art-work on it. We don’t typically refer to…

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Dis Dat ‘n Kiss – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

The last thing you d think of as British food is hot dogs, right Right. And if you were going to import hot dogs into Britain the last person you d turn to would be a foodie from New Orleans. Right Wrong. Skip Murray introduced the unsuspecting Brits to the delicacies of second rate meat…

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