Midnight Menu +1

Wayfare: The Mother’s Milk of Sandwiches – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

If you don t hear this for yourself you won t believe it. It s hard to imagine a more innocent opening question to ask Chef Kevin White, the kitchen mastermind behind the Freret Street bistro success, Wayfare. Margo simply asks Chef Kevin, “How did you get started cooking ” From there the conversation starts…

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Handful of Sand – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Mike Yusko came to New Orleans the same way many have before him: “I met a girl from Hammond.” Yanked out of the cosmopolitan world of tending Bohemian bar in downtown Los Angeles, Mike found himself pioneering the cosmopolitan world of Bohemian Freret Street at newly opened Cure. Creating drinks named after movies and Czech…

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Queen of The Hillel – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Harveen Khera’s ethnic background – daughter of Indian and Malaysian parents growing up in London – and her cuisine career – including working in San Francisco’s finest restaurant and opening her own bar  – prepared her for almost any epicurean eventuality. Except being the chef in a New Orleans kosher kitchen. But that’s exactly what…

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Sweet Samurai – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Margo’s son just had a birthday. In his short life his sock puppet has already had a long and tortured history, featuring maiming, loss, death, and rebirth. When Margo hit on the dea that it woukd be fun to capture all that in a cake, who else could she turn to than Midori-Tajiri Byrd. Sometimes…

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BEER! – Midnight Menu +1 – It’s New Orleans

Two guys walk into a bar. One owns a beer brewing store. The other is opening a brewery. They sit down at a bar table with the guy who owns the bar, and a guy who – despite being known as “The Man Who Ate New Orleans” – hasn’t had anything to eat all day….

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