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New Happenings in New Orleans

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Looking for something to occupy your leisure time in the Big Easy? If there is one constant about New Orleans, it's that there is always something exciting, fun, or interesting popping up for locals and tourists to have a blast at. Whether it's food and wine or art and culture, the real question has kind of become, "When isn't there something happening in New Orleans?"

 

Last month, Bon Appetit’s Andrew Knowlton unveiled his list of the best new restaurants in America.

The top spot went to Alma, a 39-seat restaurant run by a 26-year-old chef in Los Angeles. Among the others who made the cut: A reinvented Austin, Texas, institution called Jeffery’s (along with its sister, Josephine House); Ava Gene’s in Portland, Ore.; Fat Rice, a Macanese restaurant in Chicago; Rolf & Daughters, chef Philip Krajeck’s Italian restaurant in Nasvhville's Germantown; and Saison, Joshua Skenes’ critically lauded San Francisco restaurant, where dinner for two can easily set you back 1,000 bucks.

Conspicuously absent from the list are any restaurants from New Orleans. Knowlton chose his top 10 from a list of 50 nominees; Peche, the new Warehouse District from the chefs Donald Link, Stephen Stryjewski and Ryan Prewitt, was among them. Read More

 

Hans Limburg and Gary Darling have been business partners for 20 years. Along with Greg Reggio, they run the popular chains Semolina and Zea Rotisserie Grill. But the two have been friends for 40 years.

They were students at San Diego State when they met. Darling had grown tired of living in his van, so he answered Limburg's ad seeking a roommate. As students in Southern California, they traveled often to Mexico's Baja region to drink and eat. And over the years, they've sample food throughout Latin America.

At Mizado, set to open later this fall, they created a menu of their favorite Latin American dishes. Read More

 

FILM FESTIVAL EVENTS

24th annual New Orleans Film Society Patron Party and Gala Ogden Museum of Southern Art. On the eve of its 24th New Orleans Film Festival next month, the nonprofit New Orleans Film Society hosts its annual signature fundraising gala (8 to 11 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 28), featuring food by Galatoire's, music, a live auction (including items such as 2 VIP red-carpet tickets to the Tribeca Film Festival, a New Orleans Saints game ball and more), and a "sneak peek" at this year's film festival lineup. The main event will be preceded by a patron party from 7 to 8 p.m. Single gala tickets are $150 ($125 for Film Society members). Patron party tickets are $250 and include admission to the gala. Ticket packages also are available at various levels of support. All tickets are available through the New Orleans Film Society website. Read More

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