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The French Quarter gets a new restaurant from executive chef Tom Branighan and business partner and sommelier Molly Wismeier. Plus, the Capital Grille arrives in Kentucky with a February launch in Louisville. ....
Tomorrow, Palm&Pine’s three course Holiday Lunch Extravaganza is returning to the cozy restaurant at the edge of the French Quarter from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. ....
New Orleans resident Charles P. found himself without power during Hurricane Ida’s 2021 landfall in the French Quarter. His journal recounts the devastation and will to recover. ....
The historic Beauregard-Keyes House will resume its practice of honoring of St. Joseph’s Day with an altar this year along with a concert of Italian classics. The public is welcome to join staff and volunteers in marking this sacred Sicilian tradition, which has been celebrated in the French Quarter since Sicilian immigrants began arriving in the city in the late 19th century. Every March 19, New Orleans Catholics celebrate St. Joseph’s Day by constructing elaborate altars of bread, fruits, vegetables, seafood, cakes, and other food items and statuary to honor the relief St. Joseph provided during a famine in Sicily. The tradition began in the late 1800s when Sicilian immigrants settled in New Orleans but has since been adopted by families and churches of other ancestries. ....