Midnight Menu is live from Thrive at The Laurel Street Bakery this week. Ray and Margo start out the show by welcoming “the genius behind Thrive” (Ray’s understated hyperbole) Peter Menge.   Ray and Margo turn to the main course of the evening, Seth Hamstead, owner of Cleaver and Co. a whole meat old fashioned butcher…

Greg Hill has been in every one of 500-plus coffee shops in Louisiana. He bought the one without a sign surrounded by competitors. From a blank canvas Greg is turning Cafe Luna into a unique location. His ex-bandmate John Thompson is still rocking, and hating every minute of it.

Ray and Margo are coming down off the high of po’boy fest, and welcome Chef Gason Nelson to talk about working as Reggie Bush’s personal chef, competing on chopped, and what it feels like to win the Super Bowl. Then, Sun Ray Grill owner Dana Deutsch joins us to explain why he has goat in…

The power-packed personalities of Patois and Tru Burger‘s Aaron Burgau and Leon Touzet swing from Jesuit High to banning customers for life, riding horses, shooting ducks, Mardi Gras, and, incidentally somewhere along the way, running a fine restaurant and a burger joint.

Chef Adrienne Resh takes us behind the scenes into the kitchen of the shockingly creative Boucherie. Via Fortier, having led the charge of the NOLA gourmet burger invasion at Tru Burger, now turns her attention to Oak Wine Bar.