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🍴 DUBLIN DELISH 🎄 Cluck Chicken 🐔

@cluckchicken_ understood the assignment 🎄🔥

The Father Cluckmas stacks hot honey smothered fried chicken with baconaise, sausage & herb stuffing, pickled fried onions, cranberry ketchup and festive gravy on a potato bun.

A full Christmas dinner. Zero cutlery.

It’s the last Dublin Delish of the festive season — but now we ask the real questions… is a burger a sandwich? 👀

Cluck Chicken also won The Dublin Delish Award at 98FM’s Best of Dublin Awards 2025 🏆 Less

When in the area around City Park, go check out @charmantnola , newly opened in the former home of MoPho.

Brunch, happy hour and dinner — more to come on this place, but here’s a quick look at a really lovely brunch.

Avocado and gravlax toast, nicely layered

Fried brussels sprouts that finally got me interested in fried brussels sprouts again, with a base of cardamom yogurt, lima beans, sourdough croutons, lots of cheese

Croque madame sandwich

And the Phomo - a tribute to MoPho, essentially grillades and grits rendered with star anise-braised short rib, rice grits and bean sprout salad under an egg.

Espresso martini because, coffee

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They call it a wine bar but don’t miss the cocktails at @winebaratemerils , especially these seasonal beauties:

🎄nutcracker Manhattan with sherry, amaro, pecan bitters

🌶️tamarind sour with smoky mezcal, chile and cocoa

🐝the apiary old fashioned with bee pollen.

A visit for snacks at the bar before some downtown holiday hotel lobby hopping was a causally elegant and delicious dinner.

Foie gras as bar snack, gumbo with velvety texture, deep flavor, and amazing rice (really!), shrimp and lobster dumplings, and duck fried rice.

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First course at @clancysrestaurant …. Sazerac of course.

Boxing Day lunch in this gracious room is fantastic.

Oysters with Brie (or is it the other way around?)
Smoky gumbo
Crabmeat salad
Shrimp pasta
Sheepshead amandine
Lamb
Great wine
Fun, gregarious company at the table and beyond!

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Cocktails off the naughty list and a very nice Réveillon dinner at @caneandtable .

This is one of those French Quarter businesses right up against it, meaning the construction fences, that will be here for months to come. But inside, it’s just delightful, as usual.

The garlic soup on the Reveillon menu from @alfredo_nogueira is worth a visit all on its own. We added a few things of course - that pork ribeye, so good!

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Enchiladas, the Honduran type, piled high at La Cocinita in Kenner.

There was just one other customer in the dining room when I chowed down on this at the peak workday lunch hour this week, plus a few people coming in for take out - which has been a lifeline for some.

Link in my bio has my story on how Hispanic restaurants and markets are suffering in the New Orleans area right now and how bringing them a little more business can go along way to support.

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@evviva.nola is the restaurant you visited in Italy, the neighborhood spot that speaks softly and that you couldn’t stop talking about afterward.

It’s the one with the menu that reads simply, overdelivers in fresh and vivid flavors, and changes constantly with the market and the catch of the day. You swore that after that your trip you’d keep eating like this back home, and now you can again at Evviva.

It reunited a circle of people who opened the restaurant this year (in the former Franklin), including two chefs who have fed us so well through the years, Rebecca Wilcomb - once of Herbsaint and Gianna - and Marcus Jacobs - of the late Marjie’s Grill and Seafood Sally’s.

Start with happy hour, which goes late and always has something new and interesting coming through, like a workshop for the two chefs behind this kitchen.

Some photos here by @cgranger of the roasted mussels, endive/radicchio salad and anchovy bread, and garlicky grilled shrimp, martinis and vibes.

Link in my bio has the full story and lots more photos

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Draw a day-trip diameter around New Orleans, and the range of places where you can feel that desired release from the norm and still be back home the same night, is varied but not exactly endless.

So it was a joy to discover how the new restaurant @saintclaire_neworleans has created a new one that’s actually within the city limits.

Saint Claire will serve you a lovely dinner, in the vein of French country cooking filtered through Louisiana.

It also an enchanting destination, thanks to a combination of an old house with a new glow-up, the expansive, oak-laden grounds around it and the warmth of hospitality.

People go on retreats for the kind restorative feeling I took away from an early Friday dinner around sunset.

Link in my bio has the full read and more photos

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Came to @porgysnola to shop oysters for Thanksgiving , stayed for the big fat shrimp po-boy, Thai-style ceviche of amberjack and the daily special - this time spicy ground shrimp and squash curry with apple, cuc and daikon salad , your cue in that @pwchell formerly of MoPho is cooking here these days.

Oysters from @bayourosaoysters , @murderpointoysterco and @tesvichoysterfarms.2 “reef candy” for the big day.

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“Where eating is a pleasure” — the motto at @tia.marias.kitchen rings true with the incredible Honduran fried chicken for this pollo con tajadas and tasty catrachitas too (like loaded tostadas).

It’s also a pleasure having such richly diverse cultures in our community, and in tense times a little support may go a lot further — it’s great to see people turning up.

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