DiCristina’s Italian & Seafood Restaurant, Covington, LA Report #573

I have a good friend named Donald who is apparently trying to muscle in on my territory. Every time he goes to a new restaurant he goes on Facebook, post pictures of the food and critiques it. I don’t think this state is big enough for the both of us! Anyway, he went to this…

Amoré Ristorante Italiano, Birmingham, AL Report #565

Whenever I travel somewhere I like to try new and different local cuisines. My problem here was figuring out exactly what would be considered a new and different local cuisine here in Birmingham, Alabama? Something that I’m not already used to just a little further west in Louisiana? After pondering this for a while it…

Stella Pizzeria & Restaurant, Metairie, LA Report #557

I have a friend who’s a certified New Orleans Italian (pronounced EYE-talian by many old school New Orleanians). She’s also very rich. She’s so rich when normal New Orleanians are cutting up potatoes and icing up the Miller High Life to have a crawfish boil, her servants are icing up a case of Dom Perignon…

Sandros Trattoria, Metairie LA Report #545

I have a friend who’s an authentic, New Orleans Italian. She’s never shown me any paperwork to prove it, but I believe her. She’s the one that told me about this place. I tried to get here once before but couldn’t get a reservation. It was kind of last minute. Today I happened to be…

The Original Fiorellas’ Cafe, New Orleans, LA Report #516

This area of New Orleans has had a few restaurants as long as I can remember. I used to eat at all of them when I lived and worked near here. But 25 years ago, I moved to the Westbank of New Orleans, so I hardly get to this area anymore. But I’ve heard several…

Mandina’s Restaurant, New Orleans, LA Report #507

This place has been around a long time. In fact, it’ll make its 100th birthday in a decade. I haven’t been here since back in the early 1990’s. A friend of mine and I used to work in the area and spent many a night after work closing down the bar here. Around that same…

Randazzo’s Family Restaurant, Metairie, LA Report #483

A few nights ago I did something I hadn’t done in years. Looked at the restaurant section in Groupon. I used to do it pretty often to get ideas on new places to try, plus it saves you some money. Nothing wrong with that! There was a deal in there for this place. I bought…

II Tony’s Restaurant, New Orleans, LA Report #460

There are a bunch of restaurants in this little area right on Lake Pontchartrain. The ones I’ve reported on are Felix’s, Lakeview Harbor, Landry’s, Ming’s, Russel’s Marina Grill, Sala and The Blue Crab. I ate at this place a long time ago. So long ago, I forgot if I liked it or not! Tonight, we…

Giorlando’s Restaurant, Metairie, LA Report #451

You ever drive by a place, hundreds of times, and every time you pass you look at it and say, “One day I’ve got to try that place”? This is one of those places. I live in New Orleans and it’s located in Metairie, but right at a very busy intersection on a main thoroughfare.…

Augie’s Restaurant, Harahan, LA Report #440

We had no intention of stopping at here for lunch. We were driving along headed to do some Christmas shopping, saw this place, realized we were hungry, so we stopped in. Beautiful place! They also do special events such as weddings. We decided on: %%%%% THE FOOD %%%%% The seafood gumbo was delicious. Nice consistency,…