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Lunch with me is usually a decadent affair.  Being an innkeeper, I usually have the middle of my day free so I usually settle on some restaurant barstool for 2-3 hours sipping a cocktail and endless glasses of club soda while I read the Wall Street Journal and make idle chitchat between articles with whoever […]

I had lunch at II Tony’s the other day, home of char grilled seafood and Creole Italian.  Ever cuisine gets creolized over time in New Orleans.  That’s what makes it New Orleans cuisine.  It’s been a while since I had been here.  The time before that was with Jimmy. II Tony’s is pronounced like it’s

You will rarely hear me talk about music because I don’t have a savage breast that needs to be soothed, but Paula sent me a link to this video and I think this Freedom video by Jon Batiste is the best expression of New Orleans’ joie de vivre that I have seen in a long

I read about all the new boutique hotels that have been opening up around New Orleans, both before the pandemic and afterward, they are all interesting, but they are nothing like the original, which is La Belle Esplanade.  La Belle Esplanade is New Orleans’ most boutique hotel. We’ve been around a long time so we’ve

Taste is king when it comes to appreciating authentic New Orleans. You don’t know this but there are about 30 acres upriver from the convention center that have been empty for Heaven knows how long.  The Convention Center Authority, or whatever they are called, have invited bids to develop this land into an “entertainment district.”

You never know what you’ll find when you walk around back-of-town New Orleans.  I know that if you don’t live here, you will be spending a lot of time in the French Quarter, and doing other things that your friends who have been here before have told you do, like visiting the WWII Museum or

Google New Orleans and you will get a skrillion results.  Read with care.  If you are reading this right now, you are getting the real deal of what it means to fall in love with the authentic New Orleans.  You are on the right website.  Welcome to the real New Orleans state of mind.  Do

Something special descends from Heaven every year and lands in New Orleans.  It is the spirit of Mardi Gras.  It is what makes New Orleans New Orleans.  Mardi Gras Day is like every other day of the year in New Orleans, only it is more so.  Mardi Gras Day is New Orleans on steroids, pumped

It was Christmas Day at Frey Smoked Meat Company and the usual gang of regulars was gathered to wish each other a happy Christmas and plant the seeds of good cheer that could be shared with familiar company before they scattered across New Orleans to spread that good cheer farther than Little Metarie.  Everyone was in

I was sitting at the short end of the corner bar at Frey Smoked Meat Company in New Orleans, Louisiana.  You now know where to get the best barbecue in New Orleans.  Frey Smoked Meat Company.  ‘Nuff said. When I sit at the short end of the corner bar at Frey Smoked Meat Company, I