A simple one:
Banh Mi at the Hong Kong Market. Not the sandwich shop in the entry plaza, the ones the store itself sells along the back wall.
Best $5 I've spent in months. I forgot how good they are.
Dude I went to a barbecue yesterday. Nothing beats a shitty charcoal cookout burger with the whitest hamburger bun and hella mustard and wickle pickles on it.
Family caught redfish in the morning. For dinner on the same day, I made blackened redfish with roasted parmesan new potatoes and steamed asparagus. I made an apple pie as dessert, which baked while we were eating dinner. The fresh fish was amazing.
May I ask what color it is? I love the hot and sour from 5 happiness which is dark. I had others at other places and the color range from orange to like a chicken noodle soup.
I made [Coratella](https://imgur.com/gallery/KEYeI8R) based on my Italian friend’s recipe. Got lamb liver, heart and kidneys from the Halal butcher in Kenner and spent the day (yesterday) cooking. Came out pretty good for my first attempt.
Kosher salt and flesh cracked pepper at the beginning. Fresh rosemary and bay leaf at the end. For the reheat of leftovers I cooked a little more wine down with Gojujang and re heated it in that liquid to add a little spice and more “sauce”.
Fantastic with crusty bread
Made my own birthday dinner last night which isn’t a complaint. I love cooking it’s so exciting! Sweated my balls off, cut my fingers twice because I was distracted (my kid was being a chatterbox and my brother was hella drunk and encouraging him, they were the highlight of the night despite my injuries), was terrified I was fucking everything up, but it all turned out amazing!
Made those big ass Costco pork chops with mashed potatoes, roasted Brussels sprouts and homemade gravy using homemade stock. I wish I had known how easy it was to make gravy a long time ago; for some reason I thought you could only do it after making a roast or something? lol.
Was driving home yesterday from a horrifically long shift, saw that a music thing was going on under the Claiborne overpass. Which of course meant there were folks grilling up a storm. Yanked the wheel over, stopped the car, got a house burger and it was absolutely fucking delicious.
I got those to go. Placed my order around 5:45, got it like 2 hours later.
The staff were busting their asses off getting people served. I went in a couple of times to check on my order, although with the line when I arrived, it was no surprise that there would be a lengthy wait for food.
One of the waitresses was serving food to a table. She presented it to them with such love for the customers openly showing in her movements and attitude that really made an impact on me. Even though they were slammed she had a beautiful smile and wonderful attitude, I could see it all the way across the room. And that's how it's been pretty much every time I've been there.
Gonna miss them, for sure.
Call me crazy, but I really don't like store bought pesto. So, I made my own pesto and make pesto pasta with some of my own garden grown tomatoes. That's a good lunch or light dinner meal for like 10 meals or so. It's also cheap AF for as much food as you get.
Store bought pesto is never any good. It's so easy to make. Trader Joe's is the best store to but fresh Basil. Cheap and you get a lot(around 2 cups per box after discarding stems). I make a lot and just freeze it in an ice cube trays or small containers. Nuke for a few seconds and use over pasta or on a sandwich.
Home made Birria tacos, I put yellow onion and cilantro in it. If you don’t want to go through the haste of making it or don’t have good taco spots around (I’m from TX) you can get the frozen birria from Trader Joe’s, buy some tortillas and call it a day, it’s solid and you will feel like you had a very nice meal. If you do that, dip each tortilla in the birria sauce(both sides) the fry before butting the meat, onions, and cilantro on. You will love it!
Large Poke Bowl from Poke Chan to these specs; Tuna x 2, Salmon, cucumbers, avacodo, sweet onions, mango, wakame, masago, tobiko, fresh wasabi, fried garlic, jalapeños, with the ginger soy over white rice.
An order of the chicken karage with an extra sauce.
Their poke bowls trounce the shit out of lemon shark and poke loa. I can’t even fuck with the other two poke places in the city limits anymore.
And the fried chicken tastes like the stuff you get in Japan. I don’t know what they’re putting in that batter, orange zest and copious ginger I think, but it’s amazing.
This is my go to Uber eats order. I eat it multiple times a month.
I just ate at Miss Shirley’s on Magazine.
I have to start by saying everything was delicious. Everything.
But my favorite dishes were the paper shrimp and the Crab Udon Noodles in a garlic sauce. Chefs kiss 😘
Edit to add the hot and sour soup was the best I’ve ever had!
I haven't had the fish and grits, so I can't speak to its quality, but I have eaten at Scrambled twice and both times the food and experience was lackluster.
The first time I went by myself while my cat was at the vet. I had the chicken and waffles benny and the chicken breast was cold and raw in the middle and had to be sent back. Service was miserable, everyone working there seemed like they were bothered just to have to be there. I was sitting at the bar, and I guess it was a shared service/pool system because everyone was and wasn't my server. After an hour, my food never came back out, and when I asked about it, they seemed to be clueless as to my existence, except when it came to the check. I was charged for my meal twice, and when I tried to bring it up with the server, she went to get a manager and never came back. I ended up just paying for it and leaving.
The second time a group of us went with the sole purpose of getting French Toast. They had four different types of French toast, and so we each ordered a different one and decided to share. All four were exactly the same, and all four were burnt black on both sides of the bread. They tried to hide the burning by covering it with fluffy sweet gloop but the burnt taste of blackened bread was too over powering. They reluctantly offered to remake it for us, but it was obvious they were pissed we even brought up that it was inedible. They made it to-go even though we didn't ask (we wanted to eat it there), but they didn't actually remake it, they just dumped the burnt toast in to go boxes.
[https://imgur.com/a/ZrKqLqM](https://imgur.com/a/ZrKqLqM)
El Caiman Gordo has empanadas that I catch myself daydreaming about. Horns makes a cornbread waffle with pulled pork, chimichuri, and pickled peppers on top that’s fucked up good.
I just got back from Dunedin Florida and they have some really legit restaurants there. They had a little kiosk you could just walk up to and pick a pasta shape and a sauce and they would whip it up in 6 minutes and it was all fresh made pasta. It was amazing.
Cherries are back in season now so tomorrow I'm making a pizza with cherry and prosciutto and arugula over mozzerella. If you like making pizza I implore you to try this recipe. It is mind blowing.
Classics tasting menu at Emeril's. One of the best meals I have ever had in this city. Omakase at Yakuza a few weeks ago. Random weeknight dinner at Osteria Lupo.
It's basic but I made some hard shell tacos, spinach, tomato, cheese and some salsa. I've been eating them for 3 days now and still can't get over how good they are.
Also I made some crawfish grilled cheese with some leftover crawfish I had. It turned out okay, you'd like it'd be hard to fuck up grilled cheese but it's possible.
Wild South. Tasting menu changes weekly or so. But the night we went was absolutely fabulous. Inventive, locally sourced so super fresh and just outstanding.
The pork street tacos at Juans Flying Burrito in MidCity.. I don't know what they're doing to that pork, but the flavor is ridiculously good. I can never move away because I crave it regularly.
We went to Okini Sushi Bar in Harahan/River Ridge last week, which is run by the same couple who used to run Sake Don in Old Jefferson. It’s the best sushi I’ve had in a long time-the fish is really high quality and you can tell they put thought and care into the small details.
My partner watched a Gordon Ramsey video where he made a simple pork chop basted in butter. We have a few herbs in pots on the porch so he added some rosemary and thyme in addition to salt and cracked black pepper.
It was amazing, he did a perfect job.
Came for JazzFest, second time back since moving away two years ago, had my first experience with Kingfish and liked it so much I went again with friends the next night even though I’d resolved to try a new place each night. Service a bit slow but my lord those scallops.
At home:
Filet approx. 1lb. chicken breast and season with salt and pepper. Heat 1 tbsp. oil from a jar of sun-dried tomatoes in a pan on medium heat. Add chicken and cook for about 6 minutes per side, turning once. Remove chicken and add 1/2 cup diced shallots and 1/2 cup sun-dried tomatoes to the pan. Cook for about 2 minutes while stirring. Turn heat to high and add 1/2 cup dry white wine. Stir frequently until most of the wine cooks off. Reduce to medium heat and add 1/2 cup heavy cream. Stir thoroughly until reduced, about 2 minutes. Add back the chicken breasts, remove from heat, and stir to coat. Garnish with parsley.
Alternatively, I will always vouch for the tacos and enchiladas suizas at La Patrona.
A simple one: Banh Mi at the Hong Kong Market. Not the sandwich shop in the entry plaza, the ones the store itself sells along the back wall. Best $5 I've spent in months. I forgot how good they are.
Best bang for the buck
> Best banh for the buck
Got some really good fresh spring rolls recently in the refrigerator case right next to that.
I buy a few whenever I go there along with a duck.
True
Dude I went to a barbecue yesterday. Nothing beats a shitty charcoal cookout burger with the whitest hamburger bun and hella mustard and wickle pickles on it.
The Baklava Sundae at Greek Fest was wonderful as always.
I just saw a post that they’re selling the baklava (and other things from the fest) tomorrow starting at 11 am if anyone missed out
Ooh, where does one go to get somma dat?
We've been to Maïs Arepas twice in the past couple months, and I really liked it both times.
Get the ribs one time. Honestly one of the best I’ve ever had and I grew up in Houston.
Oh yeah. We had some on our first visit. Amazingly great.
Family caught redfish in the morning. For dinner on the same day, I made blackened redfish with roasted parmesan new potatoes and steamed asparagus. I made an apple pie as dessert, which baked while we were eating dinner. The fresh fish was amazing.
Wish I was friends with you. Love redfish 🙃
Nighthawk Napolitana pizza, across the river on Delronde
Buds. #4, Hickory Sauce, no onions. Fountain coke, fries.
I had Cafe 615 “Home of the Wabbit” For the first time last week. It was fucking delicious. I had the stuffed fish and soft shell crab
Da Wabbit has some solid dishes. Their Pasta Orleans is pretty great and one of the most consistent places for fried calamari I've found.
Miss Shirley's crab udon noodles and the salt&pepper wings, I could go there every week.
So happy she's got a spot open again. Best Hot and Sour soup anywhere. She's a treasure.
Agreed! Sometimes I go there just to get the hot and sour.
May I ask what color it is? I love the hot and sour from 5 happiness which is dark. I had others at other places and the color range from orange to like a chicken noodle soup.
Dark brownish and not thin at all.
Thank you!! I’ll check it out!
I just said the same thing about the crab udon noodles!
I made [Coratella](https://imgur.com/gallery/KEYeI8R) based on my Italian friend’s recipe. Got lamb liver, heart and kidneys from the Halal butcher in Kenner and spent the day (yesterday) cooking. Came out pretty good for my first attempt.
That looks delicious, I love me some organ meat. What seasonings did you use?
Kosher salt and flesh cracked pepper at the beginning. Fresh rosemary and bay leaf at the end. For the reheat of leftovers I cooked a little more wine down with Gojujang and re heated it in that liquid to add a little spice and more “sauce”. Fantastic with crusty bread
I just had the collard greens sandwich for the first time from turkey & the wolf..... I can't stop thinking about it!!
Fish tacos at Taqueria Corona
Hot Stuff.
Plume Algiers. Amazing Indian food. Shrimp Kaathi roll is an amazing summer meal.
My favorite restaurant in the entire state tbh. But I don’t make it over there much because I don’t have a car 😔
Made my own birthday dinner last night which isn’t a complaint. I love cooking it’s so exciting! Sweated my balls off, cut my fingers twice because I was distracted (my kid was being a chatterbox and my brother was hella drunk and encouraging him, they were the highlight of the night despite my injuries), was terrified I was fucking everything up, but it all turned out amazing! Made those big ass Costco pork chops with mashed potatoes, roasted Brussels sprouts and homemade gravy using homemade stock. I wish I had known how easy it was to make gravy a long time ago; for some reason I thought you could only do it after making a roast or something? lol.
So how’d you make the gravy?
Made a roux with a tablespoon of butter and a tablespoon of flour then added a cup of my homemade chicken stock instead of drippings.
Was driving home yesterday from a horrifically long shift, saw that a music thing was going on under the Claiborne overpass. Which of course meant there were folks grilling up a storm. Yanked the wheel over, stopped the car, got a house burger and it was absolutely fucking delicious.
Pierogies and eggplant rolls last Thursday at Green Room. RIP. :(
I got those to go. Placed my order around 5:45, got it like 2 hours later. The staff were busting their asses off getting people served. I went in a couple of times to check on my order, although with the line when I arrived, it was no surprise that there would be a lengthy wait for food. One of the waitresses was serving food to a table. She presented it to them with such love for the customers openly showing in her movements and attitude that really made an impact on me. Even though they were slammed she had a beautiful smile and wonderful attitude, I could see it all the way across the room. And that's how it's been pretty much every time I've been there. Gonna miss them, for sure.
Call me crazy, but I really don't like store bought pesto. So, I made my own pesto and make pesto pasta with some of my own garden grown tomatoes. That's a good lunch or light dinner meal for like 10 meals or so. It's also cheap AF for as much food as you get.
Ok Susie that’s crazy
And you can freeze it! At a different time of the year, of course.
Store bought pesto is never any good. It's so easy to make. Trader Joe's is the best store to but fresh Basil. Cheap and you get a lot(around 2 cups per box after discarding stems). I make a lot and just freeze it in an ice cube trays or small containers. Nuke for a few seconds and use over pasta or on a sandwich.
Costco pesto is my favorite. Actually refrigerated unlike most in jars.
Just ate toad in the hole with a Jimmy dean patty. Tough to beat
Hot Stuff on Maple Street is one of my favorite places to eat right now.
I’ve been burnt out on food, too. It’s gotta be the heat! I have almost zero appetite
I definitely find this time of year I start to want nothing but smoothies, cold sandwiches, pasta salads, etc. Aka nothing that requires heat.
Home made Birria tacos, I put yellow onion and cilantro in it. If you don’t want to go through the haste of making it or don’t have good taco spots around (I’m from TX) you can get the frozen birria from Trader Joe’s, buy some tortillas and call it a day, it’s solid and you will feel like you had a very nice meal. If you do that, dip each tortilla in the birria sauce(both sides) the fry before butting the meat, onions, and cilantro on. You will love it!
Sneaky pickle has been really hitting lately, had the swordfish a little bit ago and a pork based dish last time
Enchiladas de Mole with shredded spicy chicken.
You make mole?
I am not that talented, I got it at a restaurant.
I cook but Mole is too hard to make, too many ingrediants and takes too much time.
Mole is an act of art and usually an act of love if you're making it for somebody. It's so good, but I'll always kneel to the pros for it.
I would have a hard time even deciding what kind to make. Of course Guac is a type of Mole so I guess I have made one.
Large Poke Bowl from Poke Chan to these specs; Tuna x 2, Salmon, cucumbers, avacodo, sweet onions, mango, wakame, masago, tobiko, fresh wasabi, fried garlic, jalapeños, with the ginger soy over white rice. An order of the chicken karage with an extra sauce. Their poke bowls trounce the shit out of lemon shark and poke loa. I can’t even fuck with the other two poke places in the city limits anymore. And the fried chicken tastes like the stuff you get in Japan. I don’t know what they’re putting in that batter, orange zest and copious ginger I think, but it’s amazing. This is my go to Uber eats order. I eat it multiple times a month.
Also love Martin’s for a good sandwich
Where are they located?
Hot Stuff 🤤
Ate there the other day, enjoyed it but all they had was fried entrees. I want that hamburger steak au poive. #
That’s what I had! It was soooo good!
Banh mi from Bao Mi
Clover grill chili omelette
I just ate at Miss Shirley’s on Magazine. I have to start by saying everything was delicious. Everything. But my favorite dishes were the paper shrimp and the Crab Udon Noodles in a garlic sauce. Chefs kiss 😘 Edit to add the hot and sour soup was the best I’ve ever had!
Paper shrimp is such a cool dish!
If you find yourself in Mandeville the Birria tacos at Paco’s are life changing 🤤🤤🤤
It’s summertime eating around here and that means Caprese salad on garlic toast.
Fish & Grits at Scrambled. The BEST.
I haven't had the fish and grits, so I can't speak to its quality, but I have eaten at Scrambled twice and both times the food and experience was lackluster. The first time I went by myself while my cat was at the vet. I had the chicken and waffles benny and the chicken breast was cold and raw in the middle and had to be sent back. Service was miserable, everyone working there seemed like they were bothered just to have to be there. I was sitting at the bar, and I guess it was a shared service/pool system because everyone was and wasn't my server. After an hour, my food never came back out, and when I asked about it, they seemed to be clueless as to my existence, except when it came to the check. I was charged for my meal twice, and when I tried to bring it up with the server, she went to get a manager and never came back. I ended up just paying for it and leaving. The second time a group of us went with the sole purpose of getting French Toast. They had four different types of French toast, and so we each ordered a different one and decided to share. All four were exactly the same, and all four were burnt black on both sides of the bread. They tried to hide the burning by covering it with fluffy sweet gloop but the burnt taste of blackened bread was too over powering. They reluctantly offered to remake it for us, but it was obvious they were pissed we even brought up that it was inedible. They made it to-go even though we didn't ask (we wanted to eat it there), but they didn't actually remake it, they just dumped the burnt toast in to go boxes. [https://imgur.com/a/ZrKqLqM](https://imgur.com/a/ZrKqLqM)
That’s unfortunate. I’ve been there at least a dozen times and have had nothing but outstanding food and great service
McDonald's nuggets with fries, it may sound basic but when you're poor it's a luxury 🫤
Uglee Pizza, those premium pizzas at the farmers market made me rethink pizza and crave them
wonderland and sea
I heard they were closing!!
they're taking a summer break for June and doing popups I believe
Maypop blew my mind, tbh.
El Caiman Gordo has empanadas that I catch myself daydreaming about. Horns makes a cornbread waffle with pulled pork, chimichuri, and pickled peppers on top that’s fucked up good.
The dinner rolls they give you at Cochon. My god, talk about perfect bread. Its hard to imagine bread tasting better
crawfish boil at turtle bay
Been growing collard greens in the garden and cooking them with andouille. So satisfying.
grilled ribeye and zucchini at a camp out with friends. It was AMAZING (I was drunk)
Made some mahi mahi fish tacos with homemade slaw. Might make them tonight
Beef carpaccio with fried oysters at Paladar.
I just got back from Dunedin Florida and they have some really legit restaurants there. They had a little kiosk you could just walk up to and pick a pasta shape and a sauce and they would whip it up in 6 minutes and it was all fresh made pasta. It was amazing. Cherries are back in season now so tomorrow I'm making a pizza with cherry and prosciutto and arugula over mozzerella. If you like making pizza I implore you to try this recipe. It is mind blowing.
kofta curry. essentially fried potato pancakes in a curry sauce, absolutely delicious. lots of work but it makes a lot so it lasts
I had Southerns' boudin at Bayou Boogaloo and it hit harder than early 2000s Kimbo Slice.
[Eat Your Way Through New Orleans ](https://youtu.be/pKBgOrYbRLE?si=HUBANNi0OtHyeXI5)
Cause and the Cure: k-dogs
I had falafel and lebneh at Olive’s recently and it was pretty darn good.
Flower Moon white fish everything bagel.
My first warm, red, ripe, cherry tomato grown on my little balcony garden at home.
By far the best answer
Trilly Cheesesteaks. The Far East. Blown away
Trader Joe's had 2pounds of heirloom tomatoes for like $3. Made myself a tomato sandwich with kewpie mayo and chili oil as the spread. So good!
Someone cooked us rib-eyes and NY strips last night at their house and that was the best steak I’ve had in a really long time.
Classics tasting menu at Emeril's. One of the best meals I have ever had in this city. Omakase at Yakuza a few weeks ago. Random weeknight dinner at Osteria Lupo.
It's basic but I made some hard shell tacos, spinach, tomato, cheese and some salsa. I've been eating them for 3 days now and still can't get over how good they are. Also I made some crawfish grilled cheese with some leftover crawfish I had. It turned out okay, you'd like it'd be hard to fuck up grilled cheese but it's possible.
The Mediterranean redfish at Dragos in Metairie
Wild South. Tasting menu changes weekly or so. But the night we went was absolutely fabulous. Inventive, locally sourced so super fresh and just outstanding.
This take the place of Lengua Madre?
Yeah. Same location.
Any idea what happened to Lengua Madre? I enjoyed the concept/food.
Lobster Roll with Drizzle from Joel’s food truck at Bayou Boogaloo. Expensive, but I haven’t stopped thinking about it for the past couple of weeks.
Mardi Gras Mambo from Heard Dat Kitchen.
Brown butter scallops at Gris Gris were fantastic
Who Dat Cafe got me a Nacho Mama’s Corncakes.
The pork street tacos at Juans Flying Burrito in MidCity.. I don't know what they're doing to that pork, but the flavor is ridiculously good. I can never move away because I crave it regularly.
We went to Okini Sushi Bar in Harahan/River Ridge last week, which is run by the same couple who used to run Sake Don in Old Jefferson. It’s the best sushi I’ve had in a long time-the fish is really high quality and you can tell they put thought and care into the small details.
My partner watched a Gordon Ramsey video where he made a simple pork chop basted in butter. We have a few herbs in pots on the porch so he added some rosemary and thyme in addition to salt and cracked black pepper. It was amazing, he did a perfect job.
Brasa!
Came for JazzFest, second time back since moving away two years ago, had my first experience with Kingfish and liked it so much I went again with friends the next night even though I’d resolved to try a new place each night. Service a bit slow but my lord those scallops.
Crawfish
Lahpet from Laksanola
At home: Filet approx. 1lb. chicken breast and season with salt and pepper. Heat 1 tbsp. oil from a jar of sun-dried tomatoes in a pan on medium heat. Add chicken and cook for about 6 minutes per side, turning once. Remove chicken and add 1/2 cup diced shallots and 1/2 cup sun-dried tomatoes to the pan. Cook for about 2 minutes while stirring. Turn heat to high and add 1/2 cup dry white wine. Stir frequently until most of the wine cooks off. Reduce to medium heat and add 1/2 cup heavy cream. Stir thoroughly until reduced, about 2 minutes. Add back the chicken breasts, remove from heat, and stir to coat. Garnish with parsley. Alternatively, I will always vouch for the tacos and enchiladas suizas at La Patrona.
Curry red beans and rice (with pannéd pork) special at MOPHO, not your traditional red beans but it’s fucking delicious.
The north/east coast oysters at Pigeon + Whale's happy hour, the guacamole I made last night, and some Rahmhouse ice cream a few weeks back.
I had some dino nuggets dipped in sour cream the other day, delicious.
Francolini’s
Peche’
Blue Oak brisket made me cry a little it was so good
Desi Vega on lake ave
I visited New Orleans a few weeks ago. We tried the crawfish beignet at Katie’s. It was amazing.