Food and more: Marielle's Blog

Tales of the Cocktail 2024 was last week, and, like last year, I was determined to make the most of it.

I was recently invited to attend a bourbon dinner at The Chloe hotel courtesy of Pinhook Bourbon in celebration of its newest release,...

On September 16, I attended the first-annual NOLA Coffee Festival at the Morial Convention Center here in New Orleans. What a wonderful...

I got to experience a Chef Meg and Company Dinner hosted by Chef Meg Bickford at Commander's Palace.

How I spent my Tales of the Cocktail, the world's biggest cocktail convention.

Good food and good people is just what the doctor ordered. Well, it’s been a while. The world kind of turned upside down, what with the...

One of New Orleans coziest new bars is located underneath The Orpheum Theater. Deep below the streets of New Orleans, the city’s newest...

Tasty American-Chinese in the Lower Garden District. I’m not usually one for formalities. I tend to lean towards things that are on the...

Delicious family Italian is just what the doctor ordered. I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% not Italian, but that doesn’t stop...

I’m a well-known lover of all things glamorous and, here in New Orleans, it doesn’t get more glamorous than The Roosevelt Hotel. Since...

Celebrating the life of someone who touched so many. It’s an odd feeling to mourn someone that you didn’t know — though, maybe in this...

Mouthwatering onion rings and fried chicken at one of New Orleans' favorite institutions. Being a lifelong local is a funny thing: it...

Rizzuto's offers a fabulous meal for a special night out. The weather is finally starting to cool down and that could only mean one...

Observing All Saints' Day, New Orleans style. New Orleanians have always had a cultural, if not sometimes morbid, fascination with death....

The building in which the restaurant is housed has been dealing with suspicious activity for years. If you’re anything like me, you love...