All of the locavore lingo that New Orleanians have been regurgitating for the past two weeks can persist after this month’s Eat Local Challenge, with help from NOLA’s Good Eggs marketplace. The San Francisco-based company is slowly rolling out in the Crescent City, offering local vendors a new way to deal with their customers.

Tujague's won't be joining the legions of Decatur Street T-Shirt shops. The owner of the famed historic French Quarter restaurant reached a new lease agreement that will allow the famed eatery to stay where it was for "many more years," according to a statement released this afternoon by owner Mark Latter.

A Crescent City Farmer's Market favorite now has a permanent location Uptown. Rivista Café and Bakery (4226 Magazine) is serving up pastries full of local ingredients, including Lisa Barbato's own crawfish bread.

Top Chef finished Season 5 in New Orleans, but now they're set to be here for the duration. The Bravo show announced its upcoming 11th season would be in New Orleans today.

City Councilwoman Stacy Head put down the ketchup and backed away from a potential food fight with Mayor Mitch today. On Wednesday, Landrieu vetoed the ordinance Head drafted to launch a program of changes to the laws governing food trucks, raising the spectre of a potential vote to override da Mayor by the City Council. But Head decided instead to put more food truck legislation forward. The latest draft contains only an increase in the number of permits available for mobile vendors, leaving aside other reforms.

Locals have seen Anthony Bourdain around R-Bar, going whole hog in Cajun Country and even weighing in on our blogosphere. Turns out, we showed the fast-talking foodie such a good time that even New York doesn't compare. Asked by his now-CNN colleague at Fareed Zakaria GPS about America's must-eat destination, the man who traded No Reservations for a life of perma-Layover turned toward the Crescent.

A new French Quarter restaurant has a plan to share the wealth of fine ingredients throughout its menu. 

Hotel Modern gets another update as southern and contemporary cuisines converge at their new hotel restaurant, Tivoli & Lee.  

Kajun’s Pub, St. Claude's 24hr karaoke dive bar, is the unassuming low-brow setting for a new form of high-brow bar food.  Kajun’s opened its kitchen a little over a week ago, sporting a menu featuring handmade gourmet sausages, prepared and smoked in house. Head chef Chris Smedley runs the in-house charcuterie of Borracho.

Tujague's Not T-Shirts has become a rallying cry around New Orleans lately, as the recent death of longtime manager Steven Latter has left a question mark around the famed French Quarter eatery's future. Latter's son Mark, currently runs the restaurant, which was opened on Decatur St. in 1856. Latter's brother, Stanford Latter, owns the building. Rumors are circulating that Stanford Latter has plans to sell the building and turn it into a T-shirt shop and fried chicken joint. Like many New Orleanians, Tales of the Cocktail's Ann Tuennerman doesn't want to see that happen. Click through for her thoughts.