A fried shrimp po boy from Singleton’s Mini Mart
Over the last decade I have eaten at nearly 200 restaurants, gas stations, cafes and corner stores on my quest to find the best po boys in greater New Orleans. I recently began filming videos to further detail this project. I hope you enjoy these short documentary films.
In June of this year I drove from my home in New Orleans 9th Ward to Harahan, Louisiana, to visit Gary ‘Koz’ Gruenig, legendary raconteur and old lion of the greater New Orleans po boy scene.
Gruenig’s restaurant is tucked away on a leafy side street adjacent to a tree-lined common surrounded by parking for po boy lovers who have poured into the restaurant for nearly 20 years. Continue reading
Bragging about selling locally caught Louisiana seafood but actually plating up fishes from Vietnam, China or some other far-off land has been a feature of New Orleans restaurant life since the first Creole cooks fired up cast-iron pots filled with daube glacé.
That Hollygrove fish fry joint touting Des Allemands catfish? It just might be Swai or Basa, frozen, then shipped in from thousands of miles away. Continue reading
I’ve eaten at nearly 200 po boy joints but this is the first video in the series. It’s 84 seconds long. Enjoy.
Vance Vaucresson is the scion of a family whose Creole sausage-making roots extend all the way back to New Orleans 7th Ward in the 19th century. Continue reading
2023 Oak Street Po Boy Festival in New Orleans