High Hat Cafe serves up the South in New Orleans, earns 'Three Beans'
January 13, 2012
High Hat Café's fried catfish tastes very much like something you've eaten before, probably at an address not far from High Hat's and likely more times than you could possibly remember.
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High Hat Cafe
October 25, 2011
The High Hat Café posits New Orleans food as part of a larger sub-category of Southern cuisine. You'll find it in areas loosely bound by the Mississippi River, starting roughly in Memphis and ending somewhere around Freret Street, where High Hat opened this summer.
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Review: High Hat Cafe, Ian McNulty samples some Southern down-home cooking on Freret Street
November 01, 2011
Dishes with a bit of a drawl jump off the menu at High Hat Cafe — Delta-style tamales wrapped neatly in cornhusks, a pimento cheese plate, homey sides of beans and greens and the restaurant's centerpiece: fried catfish with hushpuppies, practically the fish and chips of cotton country.
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Freret Street is reaching tipping point with new restaurant openings
June 21, 2011
Earlier this month Adolfo Garcia, chef-owner of RioMar and La Boca, among others, oversaw the opening of neighboring restaurants on Freret Street: The High Hat Café (4500 Freret St., 504.754.1366), a casual Southern restaurant, and Ancora Pizzeria & Salumeria (4508 Freret St., 504.324.1636), where pizzas cooked in a wood-fired oven and housemade salumi highlight a menu of casual Italian cuisine...
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Opening day on Freret; Adolfo Garcia’s High Hat Cafe and Ancora Pizzeria
June 06, 2011
High Hat Cafe and Ancora Pizzeria & Salumeria on Freret St. Monday night. Both restaurants were opened by celebrated chef Adolfo Garcia and his partners. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)...
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