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Eater
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Eater
Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate in New Orleans This Week
Skip to main content Current eater city: New Orleans Eater editors recently visited New Orleans and ate through a long list of restaurants. We hit the classics, taking full advantage of the 25-cent martinis and turtle soup at Commander's Palace, coffee and beignets at Cafe Du Monde, and French 75s at Arnaud's. And then we hit the new cool kids in town, like Acamaya, Lagniappe Bakehouse, and the Kingsway, among plenty of others. Some dishes left us feeling wowed, while others sent us gasping for air (finishing a muffaletta from Central Grocery is not for beginners). In our first roundup of several more, here are the best dishes we ate around New Orleans in June, 2025. Seafood spot Peche has served the New Orleans community since 2013, and it's thankfully been able to avoid the usual patina of an early aughts restaurant — it still feels fresh today with intriguing specials featuring local seafood and produce. On a visit in June, I couldn't resist a Royal Reds special since these crustaceans rarely make it up to the Carolinas. The dish was a departure from the fried shrimp I'd been eating the rest of the week (not that there's anything wrong with several po'boys on a trip to NOLA). Chef de cuisine Nicole Mills, a native of the Philippines, often incorporates Southeast Asian flavors into her dishes. The special featured Royal Reds poached to an enviable tenderness that I could never recreate at home, ripe mango, thinly-sliced radish, a hit of jalapeño, red onions, mint, peanuts, a fish sauce dressing similar to nuoc cham, fried shallots, and crispy dried shrimp from Kho Market. Imagine crushing through the first layer of tiny crunchy shrimp to reach the succulent Royal Reds, and then plunging into fresh produce, a citrus tang, and more crunch from the nuts. It's a most satisfying bite. I could have stopped there, but I went on to the crab rice and catfish in a chili broth. Basically, you can't go wrong with seafood here. — Erin Perkins, Eater editor, South. I learned a lot about the local fare in New Orleans and the proteins that are so ingrained in the city: turtle soup, delicious boudin, and best of all, rabbit. La Petite Grocery serves an excellent paneed rabbit for lunch with spaetzle, wilted greens, and turnip puree for $38. It is a hearty meal enough to split among two people. The rabbit is crispy, and sings doused with a good zip of acid from capers and lemon (grenobloise sauce). It sits on a creamy turnip puree, which makes the dish luxurious without feeling too heavy. La Petite has an excellent wine list — you can't go wrong with lunch bubbles in Collet Champagne or 2020 Lucien Albrecht cremant d'Alsace rosé with this dish. But here's what sets this lunch apart. You can order a jar of pickles for $10 to accompany the whole meal. Pickled okra, carrots, and cauliflower cut right through that fatty rabbit. It's a jar of joy. — Henna Bakshi, Eater regional editor, South. Crab is my favorite food, so you know a dish is something special when the stuffed crab served on the side isn't the part of the dish I'm most excited about. The dishes at New Orleans' tasting menu-centric Mosquito Supper Club change frequently, so odds are that you may not get the opportunity to experience its stuffed crabs with summer panzanella. But if you can sneak there soon before tomato's fleeting season ends, you'll get the chance to try the most vivid version of the summer bread salad that I've ever had. Brightly acidic tomatoes, crisp cucumber, and crunchy croutons are paired with less-expected additions like butter beans, a hefty scattering of dill, and sesame seeds. A charred scallion vinaigrette, puckery with white balsamic, brings it all together. And yes, there's also stuffed crab on the side, its filling tucked under bright-red blue crab bodies arranged artfully on a platter nearby. Participants at Mosquito Supper Club's communal table share everything family-style — remember to be generous, or you'll be tempted to snag a larger-than-fair portion of that salad for yourself. — Missy Frederick, Eater cities director. All the restaurants with the best dishes Eater editors ate are listed in the Eater app. See More:
Miami Herald
21-04-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
New Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings will push food costs higher
Farm-to-table eateries have become trendy. Fancy restaurants trumpet the idea that their chef visits local farms and select which animals and vegetables will grace your plates. There's a certain romance to the idea that what you're eating was produced locally. Related: Popular breakfast chain franchise files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy There's also a cost efficiency to this approach. Yes, local, boutique farms may have higher prices, but not having to ship the item across the country lowers the cost. Some items benefits from this. Most produce does not travel that well, and while that's not true for meat, it is for fish. If you eat Key West shrimp in Key West, for example, it might cost you $25 for a pound of the Royal Reds - sweet shrimp caught in the Keys that taste like lobster. Order some in Las Vegas, and you'll pay the same price for a shrimp cocktail weighing about a quarter of that. Don't miss the move: Subscribe to TheStreet's free daily newsletter Fish is, of course, hard to ship compared to produce, but the reality is that farm-to-table isn't just for fancy restaurants. Even fast-food chains try to source the potatoes for their french fries, and the meat for their sandwiches, from farms as close to each location as possible. In reality, farms play a key role in what Americans eat, and they're failing at a startling rate. Many Americans don't think a lot about where there food comes from. The reality is that while we do import food, the vast majority of what we eat is produced domestically. In 2016, close to 90% of the food and beverage products consumed in America were produced in the U.S., according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). American farmers, however, also rely on exporting food to keep their businesses afloat. More bankruptcies: Popular restaurant and bar chain files for Chapter 11 bankruptcyPopular athletic shoe chain files for Chapter 11 bankruptcyAward-winning cosmetics brand files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy "The United States is the world's second largest agricultural trader, behind the European Union. U.S. agricultural exports and imports increased significantly over the last 25 years due to the economic ascension of many emerging economies, as well as the implementation of foreign and domestic policies that expanded U.S. access to foreign markets," according to USDA data. A global tariff war would be very bad for American farmers. In fact, the suggestion that one will be coming in less than 90 days has already had negative effects. While the chef buying a few bags of local vegetables and hand-picking which chickens he plans to serve that night is a good restaurant business model, it's not supporting most farms. "With U.S. agricultural output growing faster than domestic demand for many products, U.S. farmers and agricultural firms have been relying on export markets to sustain prices and revenues. As a result, U.S. agricultural exports have grown steadily over the past 25 years - reaching $174 billion in 2023, up from $57.3 billion in 1998," the USDA data shows. All of the talk about tariffs has contributed to a dramatic increase in American farms filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. "President Donald Trump's global tariffs and freezing of federal agriculture grants have added to financial strains on American farmers, who are seeking refuge in bankruptcy at the highest rate in years," Bloomberg Law reported. Related: Huge burger chain franchisee files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy The situation has been particularly devastating for family farm owners. "Family farm bankruptcies increased by 55% last year compared to 2023 and are trending even higher this year as farmers continue to grapple with depressed agricultural commodity prices and high input costs," the website shared. Farmers typically only receive about $0.15 of every dollar's worth of goods they sell. These are very low-margin businesses which can easily fall victim to a global trade war, or even the suggestion of one. "The number of farm loans at risk of defaulting is the highest it's been since 2020 as demand for non-real-estate farm loans has surged while repayment rates dropped," according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, which covers much of Midwestern farm country. Small, family-owned farms generally use Chapter 12 - not Chapter 11 - bankruptcy, as Chapter 12 has special provisions for farmers. The Arena Media Brands, LLC THESTREET is a registered trademark of TheStreet, Inc.
