Welcome to Eater Tastings, where Eater NOLA editor Gwendolyn Knapp shares the best restaurant and bar news of the week.
LGD Lots of big reveals about upcoming Square Root from chef Phillip Lopez this week. The tasting-menu focused restaurant at 1800 Magazine Street will open in February and aims to start a dining revolution. Read the extensive details right here.
NOLA Here is Eater's guide to The Best New Orleans Cookbooks 2013, for last minute holiday shoppers. If you're wondering where to take guests as they flood into town, check out The Best Show-Off Restaurants For Holiday Guests. And for ringing in the New Year, here is Eater's Guide to Dining & Boozing on NYE in New Orleans.
NOLA Here is the full-page ad that oil giant BP took out in the New York Times against Emeril's oil spill claim. As Eater National states: BP claims a "fictional loss" was created through some name licensing mumbo jumbo, and are apparently using Lagasse's claim as part of a campaign to prove oil spill damage claims were actually tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.