Shoreline Mardi Gras Celebration Long Beach, CA - Dates To Be Determined

Mardi Gras at the Original Farmers Market Los Angeles, CA - Dates To Be Determined

Long Beach Bayou Festival
Long Beach, CA - Dates To Be Determined

Ragin Cajun Crawfish Jamboree
Redondo Beach, CA - 6/21/2024

New Blues Festival
Long Beach, CA - 8/31 - 9/2, 2024

Happy Face Music Festival
Simi Valley, CA - 5/25/2024

Doheny Blues Festival
Dana Point, CA - Dates To Be Determined

Harold & Belle’s

Harold & Belle’s has been serving authentic Creole cuisine since 1969, thanks to beloved family recipes of  Creole classics.  From its early days when the small kitchen served Po-Boys, Red Beans & Rice, and Filé Gumbo, to today’s 35 table fine dining experience with Shrimp Scampi, Shrimp Creole, Crawfish Étouffée and Clam Chowder, at Harold & Belle’s you truly experience their theme: NOLA in L.A. 

Little Jewel of New Orleans

A New Orleans Grocery and Deli in DTLA influenced by the rich and varied culinary traditions of the City of New Orleans. Authenticity is paramount, so their sausages and cooking meats are made in-house, as are their baked goods, desserts, and dressings. Their market sells popular and hard to find items from Louisiana (and the South in general), while offering everyday convenience items to the public at large. Look for their Daily Special calendar!

The Gumbo Pot

Simply perfect Cajun cooking has made this spot an all-time favorite for locals and visitors alike. The beignets are phenomenal (try them drizzled with chocolate!), the gumbo is fantastic, the po’boys are perfect. Be warned: when they tell you that the blackened dishes (fish, chicken, shrimp, even a meat loaf po’boy) are hot, they speak the truth. (Critic Favorite)

Darrow’s New Orleans Grill

Darrow's New Orleans Grill brings classic cajun cuisine to the Carson community. Darrow's fast, casual eatery features Southern delicacies such as fried gumbo, fried farm-raised catfish, jambalaya, red beans and rice, and, of course, po' boy sandwiches, all at down home prices.

Darrow’s brings the tradition of southern hospitality to California. At Darrow's New Orleans Grill, they'll see to it that you have a great meal with great people. Welcome to the family!

Sassafras

Sassafras is located in the heart of Hollywood, in a 1933 converted a Savannah Townhouse. It is a warm, welcoming little piece of the South, highlighting deep-rooted southern history and distinct flavors through its cocktail menu. The design is reminiscent of the bayou, with plants flourishing throughout, wicker chairs, portraits of Southern patriarchs, antique mirrors, and a creaky conveyer belt above the bar that displays bottle-aged drinks that are in constant rotation.

Willie Mae’s

Willie Mae’s Scotch House was established in 1957 as a bar in New Orleans’ Historic Treme neighborhood. The aromas of Mississippi and Louisiana cuisine emanating from the kitchen filled the air and brought on constant demand for delicious food. Their demand was met and the rest is history. In 2005, Ms. Willie Mae Seaton was honored with the prestigious James Beard Award for “America’s Classic Restaurant for the Southern Region.” The Food Network and the Travel Channel dubbed Willie Mae’s as “America’s Best Fried Chicken.” Today, Kerry Seaton Stewart, Ms. Willie Mae’s great-granddaughter runs a standalone, full-service restaurant right in the thick of Venice.

“We welcome all, love what we do and put love into everything we make for you!”

Orleans and York

Orleans and York – “cool people who make damn good food.” Raised in his family’s deli in New York, O&Y’s owner realized his dream of combining the best of a New York deli (Hero sandwiches) and a New Orleans restaurant (Po’ Boy sandwiches). Thank goodness he did … they’re delicious.

Sal’s Gumbo Shack

Sal’s Gumbo Shack "Brings the Bayou to you!" Down home cooking from the heart is what makes their food sooooooooooo good.  Sal’s Gumbo Shack believes that their customers’ needs and expectations of a great home cooked dining experience are of the utmost importance. They guarantee that you will feel at your Mama’s house at Sal’s. So, stop in and see for yourself.

Ragin Cajun Cafe

The best and most authentic Cajun Cuisine brought to the South Bay from Lafayette Louisiana and the most Down Home fun you can find West of Bourbon Street, right in Redondo Beach! Sunday Brunch from 11am-2pm. Local & Louisiana craft beers.

Stevie’s Creole Café

Want to taste something new and delicious? Try the Creole food served at Stevie’s Creole Café! Our humble café is the home of authentic Creole cuisine in Los Angeles. Indulge in a plate of mouth-watering Creole food you will surely love.

The Quarter Creole Cuisine

The Quarter is a family owned restaurant. We hope to provide the most authentic Creole dining experience outside of the New Orleans French Quarter. We use the finest ingredients and have multiple generations of family cooks that influence our food. Executive Chef Norm Theard brings authentic creole, “lick-the-plate-good” food to Claremont.  

Another Broken Egg Café

Another Broken Egg Café serves Southern-inspired breakfast, brunch and lunch. Since 1996, when the original Broken Egg Cafe opened in Louisiana, their passion is to create exceptional dishes for breakfast, brunch, and lunch that are "craveably" delicious with an artisanal flair! When you start with the finest ingredients, the dishes that follow are fresh and creative, delicious twists on classic dishes and new favorites. Each café location is designed to feel like a casual getaway, served up with a generous side of family, friends and friendly service.

Mardi Gras Tuesday

Need a taste of New Orleans? Mardi Gras Tuesday offers a sensational traditional menu with Gumbo, Po’ Boys, Jambalaya, Red Beans and Rice, and much more!

La Louisianne

La Louisanne Cajun Creole Restaurant brought New Orleans to Los Angeles via its authentic haute-Creole cookery. Creole cooking is the ethnic food of New Orleans, and it dominates the local culinary scene the way French food does in France. La Louisanne offers live entertainment nightly, featuring the top local musicians.

Les Sisters’

When  Clara Huling, Roda Hadi, and Willie Stanford opened a small café in  Chatsworth in 1986, none of them could possibly have predicted the  bright future of their venture.  For them, it was an adventure; an  attempt to realize lifelong dreams.  Each brought to the table a special  talent.  At the time, Roda was a master Cajun chef, and ran the seafood  bar at the popular Fireside Inn in Encino.  Willie was the  owner-operator of Our Place, a very popular bar and gathering place in  Northridge.  Clara’s mother owned a restaurant in Yuma where Clara  learned the trade as a young girl.  They got together and decided to try  it, and decades later, they have achieved many accolades through the years, including multiple Number 1 ratings by Zagat and Daily News many years in a row, and selection as the best in class by City Search. Do your tummy and taste buds a favor, and visit Les Sisters’ Restaurant.

The Rising Sun

Southern-style sidewalk eats with a boozy bent. An inspired and playful twist on flavorful, hearty classics.

Up From The Streets: New Orleans: The City of Music

For New Orleanians, music is a way of life and the foundation of their cultural resilience. From Eagle Rock Entertainment and Michael Murphy Productions, Inc., comes Up From The Streets: New Orleans: The City of Music, a feature length documentary that showcases the culture of New Orleans through the lens of music. Hosted by Oscar nominee and six-time Grammy Winner Terence Blanchard, the film tells stories of music as a vehicle to help battle racial injustices, unite people in good times and bad, and how music continues to be a vital form of expression today. The history of this city is distinct from any other in the US. The music created here, a powerful form of expression. The film looks at the evolution of New Orleans music and how it has reflected the culture and times in which it was created. From the drumming at Congo Square by free people of color and enslaved Africans, to the explosion of musical styles that can still be heard on the streets of the city, the power of music to change lives is evident. Personal reflections by New Orleans’ musicians including Terence Blanchard, Harry Connick, Jr, Branford & Wynton Marsalis, Mannie Fresh, and Dr. Michael White, and commentary by national and international musicians along with archival and newly filmed performances by iconic artists such as Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint and The Neville Brothers, paint the picture of "this city of music". The sounds and rhythms of New Orleans were the foundation of American music and continue to carry the torch of a liberating expression into the future.

Ella Brennan: Commanding The Table

Ella Brennan is a household name in the restaurant industry. Known today as the inspirational matriarch of the rambling Brennan family of New Orleans and the force of nature behind first Brennan's and then Commander's Palace. Fired by her family at one point, she shouldered on. She was the creator of elaborate New Orleans breakfasts and jazz brunches and revolutionized creole cuisine. A pioneer of the modern American food movement, she pushed her chefs to the forefront helping to launch the celebrity chef phenomenon.

What many don’t know is that when Ella Brennan was a teenager in 1940's New Orleans, the city’s food and drink business was in its infant stage, generating less than a million dollars a year. Today, it has grown into a billion-dollar industry for the city, many crediting the Brennan family, guided by Ella for pushing Creole wining and dining into the American mainstream and creating a lasting impact on how Americans eat and drink.

Interviews and verite footage with current and former chefs from Commander's Palace, restaurateurs, peers, family and friends will provide past and present glimpses into Ella's unique life and world. This is the intimate and triumphant story of a groundbreaking American woman.

Do U Want It?

Do U Want It? is an exploration and celebration of the musical culture of New Orleans. The film chronicles the rise of legendary New Orleans' band Papa Grows Funk and uses their illustrious thirteen-year career, from formation up to the band's emotional final shows, as a vehicle to explore the nuances of success and struggle in the greatest musical city in the world. 

Preservation Hall Jazz Band - A Tuba to Cuba

Ben Jaffe, the creative director of New Orleans’ famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band seeks to fulfill his late father's dream of retracing their musical roots to the shores of Cuba in search of the indigenous music that gave birth to New Orleans jazz. A TUBA TO CUBA celebrates the triumph of the human spirit expressed through the universal language of music and challenges us to resolve to build bridges, not walls.

Bearded Lady’s Mystic Museum

Museum of Occult, Spirit Boards, Fortune Telling and More! We also have a Gift Shop Filled with New & Unique Items! We host Frequent Events and Exhibits such as Art shows, ghost investigations, movie nights, witch craft classes, seances and MORE!

I Wanna Do That!

The move from spectator to participant is a quantum leap. In New Orleans, thousands of people have joyfully made this leap to participate in marching krewes. To document this movement, I Wanna Do That!: The Magic of Mardi Gras Marching Krewes (IWDT) was born. Through IWDT we celebrate the creative impulse that moves someone from the sidewalk and into the street. Our creative team was on the street night and day to capture as much of the phenomenon as possible, photographing and tracking krewes in the 2020 Carnival season. We think marching krewes are extraordinary and believe you will too! I Wanna Do That! is a 9” x 11” hardcover book with 272 pages and 240 color-rich photographs that capture what  Mardi Gras historian Arthur Hardy calls, “the most significant movement in Mardi Gras in decades.”

Miss Ella

Ella Brennan, “Miss Ella,” changed the way America eats. At 18 years old, she went to work at her brother’s bar on Bourbon street. The New Orleans dining scene had no idea what was about to hit it. Turns out it was one of America’s greatest business coaches, whose impact on the restaurant industry and Creole cuisine is evident across the nation today. The story of our restaurant family matriarch!

Death, Magick, Abundance by Akasha Rabut

More than any party, parade, team, or disaster, New Orleans is the people. The ones who persevere, survive, strengthen, and transform the city in all its unceasing vibrancy. For nearly a decade, photographer Akasha Rabut has documented this thriving culture. In Death Magick Abundance, her first book, she reveals the city’s spirit through the pink smoke of the Caramel Curves, the first all-female black motorcycle club; alongside the Southern Riderz, urban cowboys on horseback in the streets; and many others who represent the next generation of New Orleans. Seeking to interpret and preserve a sacred cultural heritage while redefining itself against a constantly shifting landscape, Death Magick Abundance is a conduit for the love and unending beauty of New Orleans and its people to flow to the rest of the world.

Akasha Rabut is a photographer and educator based in New Orleans. Her work explores multi-cultural phenomena and tradition rooted in the American South. Akasha is also the founder of Creative Council, a mentoring program for young people in New Orleans pursuing careers in the arts. Akasha’s photographs have appeared in museums and galleries around the world. She holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Cherchez la Femme - New Orleans Women by Cheryl Gerber

New Orleans native Cheryl Gerber captures the vibrancy and diversity of New Orleans women in Cherchez la Femme: New Orleans Women. Inspired by the 2017 Women’s March in Washington, DC, Gerber’s book includes over two hundred photographs of the city’s most well-known women and the everyday women who make New Orleans so rich and diverse. Drawing from her own archives as well as new works, Gerber’s selection of photographs in Cherchez la Femme highlights the contributions of women to the city, making it one of the only photographic histories of modern New Orleans women. 

Alongside Gerber’s photographs are twelve essays written by female writers about such women as Leah Chase, Irma Thomas, Mignon Faget, and Trixie Minx. Also featured are prominent groups of women that have made their mark on the city, like the Mardi Gras Indians, Baby Dolls, and the Krewe of Muses, among others. The book is divided into eleven chapters, each celebrating the women who add to New Orleans’s uniqueness, including entertainers, socialites, activists, musicians, chefs, entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders, and burlesque artists.