Midnight Menu +1

Rolls and Bowls – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Margo is such a big fan of Vietnamese resaurant Rolls and Bowls that not only has she eaten there twice in one day, she ordered the same dish for lunch and dinner!   Co-owner Ricky Phan is the first guest to bring along a plus one that is, as he described it, “My plus two”…

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There’s no Jesus in Your King Cake – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Liz Williams had a hand in creating the World War II Museum and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Finding herself at the same age Julia Child was when she left the straight life behind and started out following her passion for food, Liz did the same and founded the Southern Food and Beverage Museum….

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How You Like Dem Tacos? – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Ray is a man of the cloth plus he’s eaten at over 750 New Orleans restaurants so we don’t take his word about food lightly. He’s on record as saying his choice for his last meal on earth, should he know that in fact it is his last meal, would be a taco from Woody’s…

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At Your Service – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

We often refer to the restaurant world as “the service industry” but the people who actually serve are mostly relegated to the role of functionary – simply a necessary conduit between the real stars of dining: the chef and the person bestowing the food with appreciation or approbation. However, there are servers in the service…

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Living Large on the Lakefront – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Back in the day – pre Katrina and Ivan and a bunch of other wicked storms that killed them off one at a time – the New Orleans Lakefreont was a mecca of seafood restaurants.  Fitzgerald’s, Sid-Mar’s, Brunings, and more, Lakefront dining was an integral part of growing up in New Orleans.  Eventually they all…

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