New Brewpub Will Bring Acclaimed Chef’s Viet-Cajun Creations to Bywater - [Eater New Orleans - All]

Chef Anh Luu with a famous phoritto at her Portland restaurant, Tapalaya | Tapalaya/Facebook

Bywater Brewpub’s kitchen will be led by Anh Luu, a New Orleans native who owned a Viet-Cajun restaurant in Portland

The Bywater neighborhood is getting a new 75-seat brew pub, and the kitchen will be led by talented New Orleans native Anh Luu, who most recently owned a successful Viet-Cajun restaurant in Portland before returning to the city last year.

Creatively called Bywater Brewpub, Gambit reports that the restaurant and microbrewery will serve five to eight beers and the Vietnamese-Cajun mashup items Luu cooks, like crawfish etouffee nachos and double-fried chicken wings with brown butter fish sauce.

Luu was born in New Orleans to Vietnam War refugees, ending up in Portland after Hurricane Katrina derailed her college plans. In 2013, Luu became head chef at Portland restaurant Tapalaya, where she became known for viral phorrito pop-ups and earned rave reviews. After five years and a semifinalist nod for Eater Young Guns 2016, she bought Tapalaya from owners in 2017. Last year she sold the restaurant and returned to New Orleans following the death of her mother.

Bywater Brewpub is located in the former Copperworks warehouse building at 3000 Royal Street, a former glassblowing studio (Mitchell Gaudet’s Studio Inferno, now in Arabi). Owner Nahum Laventhal tells Gambit that Sonny Day, previously at Urban South Brewery and Abita Brewing Co., will oversee the beer.

Laventhal expects to open Bywater Brewpub in April.

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• Bywater Brewpub to serve Anh Luu’s ‘Viet Cajun’ dishes and house-brewed beers when it opens in April on Royal Street [GAMBIT]
• Watch: The Secrets of the Phorrito Revealed [EPDX]
• Tapalaya Chef Anh Luu Earns Two Rave Reviews and a Second-Place Finish on Chopped
• Eater Young Guns 2016: Meet the Semifinalists [EATER]
• Chef Anh Luu Buys Tapalaya [EPDX]
• It Looks Like Viet-Cajun Restaurant Tapalaya Will Close by October [EPDX]

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Liberty’s Kitchen has teamed up with Toure Folkes to create Turning Tables, a 12-week bar and training program

A new bar and spirits training program dedicated to growing a more inclusive and diverse bar community in New Orleans showcased its inaugural class on Monday night (January 20), with a party at year-old Marigny hotspot Hotel Peter and Paul, home of the acclaimed Elysian Bar.

Called Turning Tables, the training is now part of the work done by local nonprofit Liberty’s Kitchen, which has been providing restaurant and hospitality training to underserved young adults for years. The 12-week program was created by local bartender and consultant Toure Folkes, with the help of a grant from the Tales of the Cocktail Foundation, host of the annual spirits conference held in the city.

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