Evviva New Orleans

@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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I’m very familiar with this view of the bar, but now the longtime Franklin is the new @evviva.nola , and brings back a some talent in the kitchen that’s familiar too.

It’s pretty much Italian, but not strictly so.

Dropped in and started digging in with :
🔥porgy brandade (on the happy hour menu, 5-7 pm)
🔥peaches with crab, chile and fresh mint
🔥a chorus line of shrimp, simple, tasting of the grill, perfectly cooked with their fresh bounce intact
🔥burly rustic pasta of chicken liver and ham in the rigatoni
🔥a new-to-me @marginswine blend of chenin and vermentino to pair with the range

Of you like an amaro, try it shaken with ice to end, it gets all frothy and silken like an espresso martini. Game changer!

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