We have a big eating festival this weekend, the first really major one in awhile. (Everything seems to stop cold in late August and all of September.) The Louisiana Seafood Festival is known as much for its wanderings over the years as for the food there. The first two of its seven years, it took place on the Fulton Street pedestrian mall. It outgrew that and moved to the Old U.S. Mint. From there it drifted into Lafayette Square, where even a tremendous rainstorm failed to slow things down.
Finally, last year the festival found what it says is a permanent home in City Park. Specifically, it's that field adjacent to Christian Brothers' School. The event was very well attended, even though the parking for it required a bit of a walk. But walking through the park is not the end of the world.
You will recognize the format. Twenty-two restaurants--almost all of them very well known, and including many white-tablecloth places--sell tasting plates of their dishes for modest prices. Entrance to the festival itself, with its continuous live music and cooking demos, is free. It opens Midday today (Friday, October 10), and runs all day Saturday and Sunday. A list of who'll be serving (and what) can be found in an unusually thorough list here.
NOMenu invites restaurants or organizations with upcoming special events to tell us, so we might add the news to this free department. Send to news@nomenu.com.
This weekend is the first big eating festival in awhile (that being a few weeks). You will recognize the format. Twenty-two restaurants--almost all of them very well known, and including many white-tablecloth places--sell tasting plates of their dishes for modest prices. Entrance to the festival itself, with its continuous live music and cooking demos, is free. It opens Midday today (Friday, October 10), and runs all day Saturday and Sunday. A list of who'll be serving (and what) can be found in an unusually thorough list here. More on this. . .