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...
Richard Simmons: The French Quarter Kid Who Made America Sweat
He was born in the French Quarter, sold pralines as a kid, and grew up to become the most joyfully unhinged fitness guru America has ever seen. Only New Orleans could have produced Richard Simmons....
Paul Prudhomme: The Chef Who Made the World Love Louisiana Food
He didn't just cook Louisiana food. He made the whole world want to eat it.Paul Prudhomme was the chef who took Cajun and Creole cooking — the food of Louisiana's kitchens, fishing camps, and famil...
Missing the Mark: Movies Set in New Orleans That Failed to Capture the City and Accents
New Orleans, with its unique culture, rich history, and vibrant atmosphere, has long been a favorite destination for filmmakers. While some productions have successfully captured the city's essenc...
Welcome to the The California COMMUNITY Foundation. "when we plant the seeds of vision and nurture the roots of deeds, we harvest the beauty of potential" As we look to the future, the California ...
Flying Cockroaches: The Palmetto Bug That Wants to Be Your Roommate
The Palmetto Bug: A Roach by Any Other NameNew Orleanians don't have cockroaches. They have palmetto bugs. The distinction is important — not biologically, since they are absolutely cockroaches, bu...
Humidity: New Orleans' Most Brutal Unifier
The Great UnifierThere are things that divide New Orleanians — uptown versus downtown, Zulu versus Rex, dry roux versus dark roux. And then there is the one thing that unites every single person wh...
Short-Term Rentals: The Pest That's Eating New Orleans Neighborhoods
The Neighbor You Never MeetThere was a time when the house next door had a neighbor in it — someone who borrowed your lawnmower, waved from the porch, and yelled at your kids for cutting through th...
Buck Moth Caterpillars: New Orleans' Annual Springtime Aerial Assault
The Annual Aerial AssaultEvery spring, right around April, when the live oaks are putting out their new leaves and the azaleas are in full bloom and everything in New Orleans looks like a garden pa...
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 ...
