Keeping up with restaurants in New Orleans has always been a challenge; since Hurricane Katrina it can be a full-time avocation. Not only are there new ones opening in some places where other restaurants once stood, but in many cases the old ones also have a new look or at least a new chef. We – a committee consisting of our editors and our dining and spirits writers – have been listening to what people have been saying. Based on what we’ve heard (and our own observations), we made our selections for what are the best and the newest in the local dining season. For our purposes, new, as in Best New Restaurant and Best New Chef, encompasses the period from October 2007, when the selections were made for last year’s issue, to the present. Read More