We’ve heard often during the past year and a half about how the pandemic has particularly hit, and hit hard, the hospitality industry. Food service workers struggled, not just for their livelihoods but for keeping open the restaurants at which they worked. What happens when the restaurant that may not survive is part of your… Read More about From Eddie’s to Lil Dizzy’s: A Family Legacy in Restaurants
The New Orleans-based Twisted Waffles has relocated to the ground floor café space at the New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute (NOCHI). Corporate Realty’s Scott Graf, CCIM, and Austin Lavin, CCIM, represented NOCHI in this new partnership. Located at 725 Howard St at the corner of Carondelet St, the NOCHI building is on the downtown… Read More about Twisted Waffles Relocates to NOCHI Ground-Floor Café
One result of the pandemic was working from home. Some of us seamlessly transitioned, while others struggled with sharing space, 24 hours a day, with partners, children, roommates. Dining room tables, corners of a hallway, spare bedrooms, and even porches became offices. Additionally, those of us who had been in our home spaces for a… Read More about The Hymn of Him
To most of us, the yam is a common vegetable, ubiquitous as some glistening deep orange dish at our holiday tables. However, this tuber, whose meat comes in a variety of colors ranging from white to violet, is actually a revered and ancient source of sustenance that has great cultural importance, as our most recent… Read More about From Yoruba to New Orleans: The Divine Yam
Yesterday the world observed a milestone: one year of the coronavirus pandemic, as it was declared by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. One year ago in the US, the day began with more than 1,000 people infected in 40 states and at least 30 deaths. By that evening, European travel to the… Read More about Beyond the Plate: One Year Later for Our Restaurants