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NOLA's Having a Spicy Moment: Mexakase Mashups, Poolside Crawfish Boils, and Why Your Auntie's Gumbo Just Got a Glow-Up

NOLA's Having a Spicy Moment: Mexakase Mashups, Poolside Crawfish Boils, and Why Your Auntie's Gumbo Just Got a Glow-Up

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Food Scene New Orleans

New Orleans is having a moment, and it smells like Gulf snapper sizzling in chile-laced butter, truffle-scented croque madames, and charcoal from a backyard crawfish boil drifting over a hotel pool.

Across O’Keefe Avenue, Sushi by Us is rewriting the rules with what it calls a “Mexakase” tasting menu, a playful mash‑up of Japanese omakase precision and bold Mexican flavors. Imagine a tight procession of 8 to 10 bites: pristine fish dressed with smoky chile oils, citrus, and herbs that feel as at home in a taqueria as in a Tokyo sushi bar. It is New Orleans’ appetite for fusion distilled into a single chef’s counter.

In Mid‑City, Chef Chris Borges’ Charmant has slipped into the former MoPho space and turned it into a European-style bistro and wine bar that still winks at its past. The PhoMo cocktail nods to the beloved predecessor, while a fried Brussels sprout salad with lima beans and cardamom yogurt or a croque madame layered with truffle salami show how French technique, global pantry, and local produce can flirt on one plate. Sommelier Bonnie Borges’ wine list leans into discovery, offering listeners a chance to pair Gulf seafood crudo with unexpected varietals.

Just up North Carrollton Avenue, Munch Factory’s move from the Joseph M. Bartholomew Municipal Golf Course has given Chef Jordan Ruiz a bigger stage for modern Creole. The menu still leans into New Orleans soul: buffalo fried oysters that shatter at first bite, blackened fish over fried grit cakes, and a seafood and hot sausage gumbo that tastes like Sunday at your auntie’s, just dressed up for a night out.

Innovation here doesn’t mean abandoning comfort. Smash House Burgers & Shakes in the French Quarter is turning a former tchotchke shop into a halal- and kosher‑friendly burger lab, smashing patties on the flattop and crowning them with molten cheese, pickles, and sauce that drip down your wrists, chased by cereal‑strewn shakes that taste like childhood turned up to eleven.

Meanwhile, chefs are stretching the definition of “restaurant.” Lost Coyote, described in MyNewOrleans.com’s 2025 dining moments, doubles as swim club, bar, and restaurant, serving pan‑seared Gulf fish with coconut‑carrot purée and salsa verde beside a heated pool and hosting crawfish boils when the mudbugs run. Porgy’s Seafood Market’s Lady Mongers dinner series links women chefs with impeccably sourced local catch, proof that community is as important an ingredient as blue crab.

What makes New Orleans singular is how effortlessly it braids cultures: Acadian boudin and Trinidadian doubles, Creole gumbo and Nikkei ceviche, all grounded in the city’s own seafood, sausages, and stories. Listeners should pay attention because in New Orleans, the future of dining isn’t replacing tradition; it is seasoning it, one inventive, deeply rooted dish at a time..


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