Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate in New Orleans This Week, July 2025 | Eater New Orleans
"The reviewer went for brunch despite not liking traditional brunch — “eggs, pancakes, bacon, the regular brunchy stuff” — and found the menu deliberately atypical, with family-style Asian dishes offered as part of a brunch package for two for $50 (Chinese chicken and rice dumplings, crispy beef wontons, poha breakfast potatoes, and garlic noodles). The pani puri drew special attention: described as a fried, hollow spherical shell of dough stuffed with spiced potatoes and chutneys and a staple street food for the reviewer from New Delhi, it arrived garnished with strawberry, which the reviewer initially called “a blasphemy! There’s no fruit in pani puri, I thought.” Still, the heat from the spiced mint water and the sourness from the tamarind chutney was brilliantly cut with the sweetness of the strawberries, producing a refreshing twist on a major staple, and the reviewer concluded, “I couldn’t believe it. I’d order another round.” — Henna Bakshi, Eater regional editor, South." - Henna Bakshi
