Mardi Gras Indians Super Sunday in New Orleans
There is a moment every March, usually on the third Sunday, when something extraordinary happens on the streets of Central City and Mid-City. No barricades, no Ticketmaster presale, no VIP section....
Elmwood Plantation: Where Italian Met Creole in a Crumbling Plantation House
Where Italian Met Creole Over an Open FlameElmwood Plantation was the kind of place that could only have existed in New Orleans — a restaurant set inside a crumbling antebellum plantation house, wh...
Verti Marte: The Tiny 24-Hour Deli That Feeds the Entire French Quarter
The Tiny Store That Feeds the QuarterAt 1201 Royal Street, wedged between the antique shops and galleries of the lower French Quarter, there's a market so small you could miss it if you blinked. Ve...
Tivoli Circle: The Column, the Conversation, and the Empty Pedestal
The Circle With a Column and a ConversationFor 133 years, a bronze statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee stood atop a 60-foot marble column at the center of one of New Orleans' most prominent...
The Fly: The Butterfly-Named Riverbank Where Uptown Watches the Sunset
The Butterfly That Named a RiverbankIf you ask someone from Uptown New Orleans where they go to watch the sunset, the answer is usually the same: "The Fly." It's the waterfront stretch of Audubon P...
Tipitina's: The House That Professor Longhair's Fans Built
The House That Fess BuiltTipitina's was founded in 1977 for the simplest and best of reasons: a group of New Orleans music lovers wanted Professor Longhair to have a place to play. Henry Roeland By...
Dirty Coast: Born From Bad T-Shirts, Built on New Orleans Pride
Born From Bad T-ShirtsDirty Coast exists because someone looked at the t-shirt racks in the French Quarter and said "we can do better than this." Founded in 2004 as a response to the tourist-trap t...
Hansen's Sno-Bliz: The Oldest Sno-Ball Stand in America, James Beard Approved
The Oldest Sno-Ball Stand in AmericaHansen's Sno-Bliz has been shaving ice and pouring syrup on Tchoupitoulas Street since 1934, making it — by all credible accounts — the oldest sno-ball stand in ...
Arnaud's Restaurant: The French Wine Merchant's Creole Masterpiece
The Wine Merchant Who Built a Restaurant EmpireArnaud Cazenave was a French wine merchant who arrived in New Orleans and, like many immigrants before and after him, saw an opportunity in a city tha...
Langenstein's: Uptown's Grocery Store Since the 1920s
Uptown's Grocery StoreLangenstein's is not just a grocery store — it's an Uptown institution that has been supplying the neighborhood's kitchens since the early 1920s, when Michael Langenstein and ...
Dorignac's Food Center: The Grocery Store Where You Can Buy Dinner Already Made
The Grocery Store That CooksMost grocery stores sell ingredients. Dorignac's Food Center sells dinner. Since 1947, this family-owned grocery on Veterans Memorial Boulevard near the Orleans Parish l...
Meyer The Hatter: 20,000 Hats and 130 Years on St. Charles Avenue
20,000 Hats and CountingMeyer The Hatter has been putting hats on heads in New Orleans since 1894, when Sam H. Meyer opened a shop during a time when a man without a hat was like a house without a ...
Angelo Brocato's: A Century of Sicilian Ice Cream in New Orleans
Sicily to the French Quarter to Mid-CityAngelo Brocato's is one of those New Orleans institutions that makes you wonder how the city got so lucky. Founded in 1905 on Ursulines Street in the French ...
Central Grocery: Where the Muffuletta Was Born on Decatur Street
Where the Muffuletta Was BornCentral Grocery is a small, old-fashioned Italian-American grocery store on Decatur Street with a sandwich counter, a limited menu, and one of the most important culina...
The Levee: The Wall That Keeps New Orleans From Becoming the Mississippi River
The Wall Between the City and the WaterEvery city has its defining feature — New York has its skyline, San Francisco has its bridge, Paris has its tower. New Orleans has the levee. It's not glamoro...
Lakefront Airport: The Art Deco Jewel Huey Long Built on the Lake
The Art Deco Jewel on the LakeLakefront Airport is what happens when a dictator with grand ambitions and a Depression-era workforce build an airport. Constructed in the mid-1930s under the directio...
Kaldi's Coffee Shop: The French Quarter's Living Room That Rent Killed
The Living Room of the French QuarterBefore the coffee chains colonized every corner in America, before "third wave" and "pour over" entered the vocabulary, there was Kaldi's — a coffee shop on Dec...
Masonic Cemetery: The Freemasons’ Resting Place in New Orleans
Masonic Cemetery: The Freemasons’ Resting PlaceMasonic Cemetery is one of the more enigmatic burial grounds in New Orleans. Established in 1868 by the Grand Lodge of Louisiana, Free and Accepted Ma...
St. Peter Street Cemetery: Where New Orleans First Buried Its Dead
St. Peter Street Cemetery: Where New Orleans First Buried Its DeadBefore there were cities of the dead, before the above-ground tombs became the signature of New Orleans burial culture, there was t...
Hebrew Rest Cemetery: On the High Ground of Gentilly Ridge
Hebrew Rest Cemetery: On the High Ground of Gentilly RidgeHebrew Rest Cemetery occupies some of the highest ground in New Orleans—Gentilly Ridge, a natural levee formation that runs through the Gen...
