But with two recently opened gourmet burger joints — complete with secretly-sourced buns and homemade ketchup — and two more on the way, New Orleans is on the edge of a hamburger revolution.
Pandey loved burgers so much that she decided to open a gourmet burger restaurant, one of only a handful in her city.
It tells the tale of a deaf, partly blind albino Great Dane, rescued from a shelter, who teaches his owners about love and inspires them to open a gourmet dog treat shop.
They just sold a cookie kiosk business in several local malls, where they were sure business was brisk for the new owners, and plan to open a gourmet food store in the Walt Whitman Mall in August.
An open bar, gourmet buffet stations, Dixieland jazz band and to cap it all off, fireworks.
Album release parties are typically a private affair -- reserved for tastemakers, record label suits, press and occasionally superfans -- with the actual music taking a back seat to open bars, gourmet hors d'oeuvres and shoulder rubbing.
The couple got the idea of opening a gourmet store after they had spent more than a decade owning restaurants, first in Kenilworth, N.J., and then in Toulouse.
Could it be the ghost of Lillian Feldman, who trained at Le Cordon Bleu in France and opened the gourmet shop on Main Street in 1953?
Behind the gleaming work counter of this spotless open-kitchen gourmet store and cafe, Myong Feiner is always ready for her close-up.
· Dinham Weir, Ludlow, Shropshire; 01584 874431; mr-underhills.co.uk; doubles from £140 Reviving the concept of the inn, Paul Merrett has just opened a gourmet pub with seven bedrooms near Richmond Park.
