PRESS RELEASE (1) – January 7, 2008

Hookah Café Chef David Duvall recently earned a 2007 Clean Plate Award from Restaurant Business magazine for his Fried-Green Tomato Napoleon (mistakenly named Crabmeat Napoleon in the article). The Clean Plate Awards, whose winners are selected each year by a notable group of culinary experts (including Ming Tsai, Marcus Samuelsson, and Ralph Brennan, among others), recognize “great food from great restaurants” around the United States. Gerry Fernandez, president of the Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance, writes:

Crabmeat Napoleon, Hookah Cafe, New Orleans

This place is tucked back in the French Quarter away from the touristy restaurants. We stopped here for drinks and appetizers and I ordered this item. It was definitely an intense dining experience! Green tomatoes are sliced to just the right thickness, dusted with cornmeal or flour and fried to perfection. The slices are layered with crabmeat and the three- to four-inch stack is served with a gumbo-like brown sauce. Everything went together perfectly.”

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Hookah Café, located at 500 Frenchmen Street in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, is proud to announce this achievement and congratulates Chef Duvall for his commendable culinary talent.

PRESS RELEASE (2) – January 7, 2008

Hookah Café, located at 500 Frenchmen Street in the Marigny, is pleased to announce their inclusion in noted food critic Tom Fitzmorris’ “Ten Best Bouillabaisses,” as published on his website, nomenu.com. From the December 16th, 2007 Issue of The New Orleans Menu Daily:

“In what looks like the unlikeliest place to find any cooking as ambitious as bouillabaisse, here is indeed an excellent one, served as a soup. (It can be had as an entree, however.) Everything about it is perfect…”

Congratulations to Head Chef David Duvall for this meritorious recognition.

Two Best of the Big Easy Awards were recently bestowed upon Hookah Café by the readers of Where Y’At Magazine. Chosen first in the category “Best Tapas”…

Finally, Hookah Café’s limited kitchen hours have been lifted and the full menu will now be available six days per week. All entrees, tapas, appetizers, and desserts will be served…

Interior renovations at the Hookah Café, a gradual process which began three months ago, were completed this week. New banquettes, chairs, and tables now decorate the main dining room, replacing the old coffee tables and accompanying teak-wood low-slung chairs, thereby giving a more dining-friendly feel to the main room…

Hookah Cafe is an easy chose for Valentines Day. We will be serving a Prix Fixe 5-Course Menu – Available Feb 14th (Valentines Day) only.

Hookah Café Chef David Duvall recently earned a 2007 Clean Plate Award from Restaurant Business magazine for his Fried-Green Tomato Napoleon…