New Orleans: Food, Drinks and Dining

New Orleans food (and drink), well, we’re a bit famous for it, you know? Delicious food and amazing restaurants are waiting for you all over New Orleans. From Cajun and Creole, to 4-star white tablecloth dining, to new twists in traditional New Orleans classic recipes, goNOLA.com will keep you up to date on all the latest dining news.

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GoNOLA Recipes at Home: Creole Crawfish and Tasso Chowder

by Sally Tunmer January 22, 2012 Food

Because crawfish season will soon be upon us, we thought a recipe featuring the Louisiana swamp bugs would be inspiring to start getting in the spirit. Every spring, New Orleanians host daylong crawfish boils filled with friends, family and pounds upon pounds of delicious bayou crustaceans dumped atop pages from yesterday’s newspaper. There are many things you can do with …

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New Orleans Around the Web | Week of January 9

by Sally Tunmer January 13, 2012 Arts & Culture

This week, New Orleans made appearances in blogs, message boards and travel logs buzzing about the NFL playoffs, the ultimate science fiction conference known as Wizard World and reflections on outstanding memories from New Orleans. And, as always, there’s plenty of eye candy to satisfy – or perhaps intensify – a longing for New Orleans cuisine. Enjoy some light leisure …

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Enter the Dragon: Top 5 Restaurants for Chinese New Year in New Orleans

by Liz Genest Smith January 9, 2012 Arts & Culture

I don’t want to brag, but I once threw a baby shower with a Chinese New Year theme – for a Catholic girl of Irish-German heritage. I’m about as far away from being Chinese as she is, but I’ve always had an unnatural affinity to this holiday. Call it one of life’s mysteries. Anyway, in case you didn’t know, we’re …

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GoNOLA Recipes at Home: Blackened Redfish With Cabbage

by Sally Tunmer January 8, 2012 Food

While football fans from around the country are in New Orleans supporting their teams in the Allstate Bowl Championship Series and enjoying the city, they can also discover the rich cultural tradition of Louisiana Gulf seafood. In welcoming Tiger and Crimson Tide fans, The Gulf Coast Seafood & Tourism Bash is a citywide culinary celebration and promotion offering seafood specials …

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GoNOLA Flickr Pick of the Week: King Cake

by Sally Tunmer January 7, 2012 Flickr

If it’s not painfully obvious by now, we’re kind of obsessed with king cakes at the moment, as is the rest of New Orleans. Once it was socially and ritualistically acceptable on Twelfth Night, it seemed like everyone in the city scrambled to their bakery of choice to pick up the first king cake of the Carnival season. New Orleans …

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A Guide to New Orleans King Cake Season

by The Red Streetcar January 6, 2012 Food

In most cities, the holiday season only goes through Christmas and New Year’s Day. As folks from around the country are hauling their decorations to the attic and working on breaking their resolutions for the new year, New Orleanians are anxiously awaiting the official start of the Mardi Gras season on Twelfth Night, January 6. However, for us Twelfth Night …

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Warm Hearts, Full Bellies: UR Way In Mid-City

by Sara Hudson January 2, 2012 Food

Everywhere you turn these days there’s another corporate soft serve yogurt or ice cream bar popping up, be it Tutti Frutti or Pinkberry overflow.  The problem? Many. As someone whose likely claim to fame when I die will be the amount of soft serve I can – and do! – consume, I’ve tried every establishment, all with the same drawbacks: …

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We Got The Beat: OffBeat Honors the Best in New Orleans Music

by Sally Tunmer January 2, 2012 Events

Even though the New Year is upon us, the musical strides of 2011 in New Orleans continue to be applauded. The Best of the Beat Awards are kind of like the New Orleans Grammys – and not to mention share a nominee with the actual Grammy Awards: Rebirth Brass Band – presented by the New Orleans music authority, OffBeat Magazine. …

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GoNOLA Recipes at Home: Mardi Gras King Cake

by Sally Tunmer January 1, 2012 Food

New Orleans has quite a history with the giant purple, yellow and green cinnamon bun called king cake. Its origins are derived from celebrating Twelfth Night when the Three Wise Men – or Three Kings – came to visit the Christ child. New Orleans adopted the pastry tradition and eventually bakeries like Haydel’s started making it with a little plastic …

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We Asked, You Answered: Favorite New Orleans Dishes

by Andy December 27, 2011 Food

When you tell someone you’ve been to New Orleans, chances are they ask you about what you ate. In New Orleans, food is taken very seriously. We discuss what we’re doing for lunch while we’re eating breakfast, and what we’re doing for dinner while we’re eating lunch. Food is just a way of life here. A week ago we asked …

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GoNOLA’s Best of 2011 Awards: New Orleans Festivals

by The Red Streetcar December 23, 2011 Events

In the closing hours of 2011, it is always great to reflect back on how much fun we’ve had in the past year. Today, we’re going to look back at some of our favorite festivals from 2011. One great thing about living in New Orleans is that we always have a festival going on. The only downside is that it …

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GoNOLA Top 5: Why New Orleans is America’s Favorite City

by Sally Tunmer December 21, 2011 Arts & Culture

New Orleans is America’s favorite city. Well, according to the nation’s premier travel publication, anyway. In Travel and Leisure’s America’s Favorite Cities poll, New Orleans was voted #1 by both visitors and locals in several categories, and that’s enough to cement the distinguished honor for us. Of course the locals never questioned the distinction – this accolade is just a …

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GoNOLA Recipes at Home: Ramos Gin Fizz

by Sally Tunmer December 18, 2011 Cocktail Culture

The New Orleans Fizz was created in 1888 by Henry Ramos and quickly became the toast of the town, literally. The Sazerac Bar at the Roosevelt Hotel later bought the rights to the drink and deemed it the Ramos Gin Fizz, as it’s been called ever since. Governor Huey P. Long famously enlisted a New Orleans bartender on a mission …

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Go Nuts for New Orleans Donuts

by Elizabeth Pearce December 16, 2011 Food

When the little Creole children, taking a peep into the kitchen, saw that the cook was going to make Apple Fritters, Orange Fritters or cook fried bananas for dinner, there was always some endearing term applied to her and she never failed to respond in the wholesome and practical way that the Creole cooks of those days did by handing …

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The Thrill of the Chase: New Orleans’ Legendary Dooky Chase’s

by Liz Genest Smith December 13, 2011 Food

I was sort of disappointed by my first visit to Dooky Chase’s. Not because of the food or ambiance or service, but because of my inability to exercise portion control while feasting on their lunch buffet. Halfway through my gut-busting first plateful, I glanced at my husband’s plate and realized I still had much to sample. Word to the wise: …

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GoNOLA TV Presents: The New Orleans Cooking Experience

by Andrew December 12, 2011 Food

The culinary world is a battlefield and the sense of camaraderie felt among its soldier chefs is strong and distinct. New Orleans chefs go to battle every day and when they leave on their ride, march or trudge back home – or to the nearest bar – they say “alright” with a knowing nod to their passing fellow men, for …

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