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The Most Hipster Restaurant of all time has been opened in NOLA: N7
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:23 pm
Hipster points:
It is on the lake side of St Claude. +20
Specializes in Canned seafood. +10
Natural wines. +10
Sake. +10
It is very hidden, intentionally, so you wouldn't even know its there. +100
NOLA.com Article on N7
It is on the lake side of St Claude. +20
Specializes in Canned seafood. +10
Natural wines. +10
Sake. +10
It is very hidden, intentionally, so you wouldn't even know its there. +100
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I kept catching whispers about N7. When I was in Bywater, I overheard talk about it ("Have you been?"). Someone said it was a secret. Another friend drove by twice during the day, reporting that I must be mistaken about the address. Not even Google could find it.
A few weeks back, I stood outside a high wooden fence on a block off St. Claude Avenue. The gate was discreetly marked in red paint with an "N7" stencil. Three people biked up and entered. I followed, not sure what I would find or whether I'd be asked to leave.
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The "carte" is succinct. A soup. A salad. A few French classics, like steak au poivre or coq au riesling. The only dessert is cheese.
A whisper of Japan echoes through the menu. The salmon is cured with sake. Ginger and soy sauce flavor the mackerel tartare. The drinks list includes shochu.
Half the menu comes in cans, each one pulled open and presented with its cardboard box, some of which are pretty enough to collect.
In America, canned seafood falls low on the list of appetizing choices. We dig out dusty cans when we need a tuna salad or a single anchovy for a dressing. But in Europe, particularly Spain, canned seafood, packed by hand and filled with the best olive oil, are prized as much as the fresh catch.
The canned offerings at N7 include spiced calamari, mussels in vinegary escabeche marinade and small smoked sardines. The list is growing. A few of the cans at N7 can be found elsewhere in America; others are from producers who put them in a box and ship them straight to New Orleans.
NOLA.com Article on N7
This post was edited on 1/21/16 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:25 pm to Fun Bunch
-40 for allowing a newspaper story to be written about their location.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:27 pm to BRgetthenet
quote:Wrong. A true newspaper story would be worth +10000000 points. A story on the new fangled internet thing is -40
-40 for allowing a newspaper story to be written about their location.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:29 pm to Fun Bunch
good lord
come on, Todd
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Is N7 a bar? Is it a restaurant? Does it matter?
All those gangly modern neologisms and buzzwords, like gastropub and small plates, that we use too often aren't necessary to understand N7.
come on, Todd
This post was edited on 1/21/16 at 4:30 pm
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:31 pm to BRgetthenet
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-40 for allowing a newspaper story to be written about their location.
From the article:
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Without fanfare or publicity, the small French bar and restaurant opened at the end of 2015. The owners are so publicity-shy that they would let me photograph the restaurant only if I agreed not to publish their names.
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Euewww
To be fair, high end canned seafood is actually really good. Its pretty popular in Europe.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:31 pm to Fun Bunch
Never heard of this place until now.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:32 pm to Winkface
This board is going to love this place. Fresh baby squid in it's own ink marinated with caviar. Reminds me of the roasted feline pubic hair on top of sautéed crabgrass that they serve at Noma.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:32 pm to Fun Bunch
Can I bring my mangey dog? Is there PBR in the can?
This post was edited on 1/21/16 at 4:39 pm
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:37 pm to Fun Bunch
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Sake. +10
Shochu (which they also serve) > Sake on the hipster scale these days.
I was wondering when this topic was going to get posted.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:39 pm to NOFOX
I don't even know what Shochu is.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:40 pm to Fun Bunch
Are there complimentary cans of beeswax on the tables for their hipster circus mustaches?
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:42 pm to Fun Bunch
that style of dining is very popular in Spain.... might not fly in NOLA
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:44 pm to Fun Bunch
Why the frick would anyone eat seafood out of a can?
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:44 pm to Tiger Hoods
I actually plan on going to check it out, but I'm betting it will be super packed now with this nola article. full of phonies.
Phonies like me.
Phonies like me.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:48 pm to Fun Bunch
To each his own and NOLA is full of phonies
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:48 pm to Fun Bunch
quote:
Specializes in Canned seafood.
Had a place serving that open here in Dallas a while back. It is apparently a euro thing.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:52 pm to Zappas Stache
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Had a place serving that open here in Dallas a while back. It is apparently a euro thing.
Yeah, saw Bourdain visit a place like that in Spain (IIRC). Canned clams were something ridiculous like $300/can. Sounds like something hipsters would go for.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 4:53 pm to Tyler9258
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Why the frick would anyone eat seafood out of a can?
It is super popular in Europe, particularly in Spain (and to a lesser extent, France). Apparently they can do it in a fairly high end way now (re: it isn't shitty anymore).
Essentially, it is canned in really good olive oil (or...whatever) and it stays fresh but changes the way it tastes a bit, transforming the ingredient. Like I said, its a thing.
Todd Price is defending the place a bit out there on the internets. He seemed to like it a good deal.
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