Yearly Archives: 2021

New Orleans’s 7 Hottest Must-Book Restaurant Reservations For FallCelebrity chef reopenings, a lively cocktail bar, and plenty of live music: These are New Orleans’s best new restaurants.

Pat’s Rest A While is now open on the Mandeville lakefrontChef Pat Gallagher needs to take his own advice.

At a new Mandeville lakefront restaurant, a chef’s next act, a piece of history transformedFor a chef, making the rounds at the restaurant usually means going from table to table. At Pat Gallagher’s latest restaurant in Mandeville, it means a tour of different buildings

Photos: See Mandeville lakefront landmark Rest A While through the yearsPat’s Rest A While is a new restaurant on the Mandeville lakefront developed across a historic site that was nearly lost and has now been transformed.

Pat’s Rest Awhile | Sophisticated Woman MagazinePat’s Rest Awhile is a fabulous piece of Mandeville property. It’s prettier and more well-received than even Chef Gallagher imagined.

With noted chef on board, project to turn historic Mandeville building into lakefront restaurant gains tractionMore than five years ago, Barrett and Jill McGuire embarked on a project — controversial at times — to turn a historic Mandeville orphanage and retreat into a waterfront restaurant

New Orleans MenuOn New Year’s Eve the weather was nasty. Cold and wet, and after dark, sort of scary blustery. Tom and I contemplated staying at home but it seemed a shame to do so on the night everyone is supposed to have a blast, right?

Pat’s Rest Awhile | Mandeville, LA 70448Seafood is the star of the show at Pat’s Rest Awhile, the new casual, waterfront seafood restaurant and bar by renowned chef Pat Gallagher. There’s the Gulf Fish Almondine served with fresh crabmeat, Cedar-Plank Redfish with Citrus Horseradish Crust, Grilled Swordfish with Corn Maque Choux and Tomat…