📍 Central City, New Orleans

The Willie Mae's name goes back to Willie Mae Seaton's 1957 Treme fried-chicken room — a James Beard America's Classics winner routinely called the best fried chicken in the countr...

Kaitlin Guerin bakes seasonal pastries out of a Central City storefront, folding French technique into Southern foodways and West African tradition. The signature is the Vaucroissa...

This Central City nonprofit on Oretha Castle Haley trains at-risk young New Orleanians in the food-service trade, and the weekday-lunch plate is the real reason locals keep the lin...