Explore Louisiana’s Northshore with a Tammany Taste of Summer

St. Tammany's location makes it all but inevitable that this little slice of the South should emerge as a dining mecca.

Sponsored by Louisiana Northshore

This August, head to the Northshore for the second annual Tammany Taste of Summer, a showcase of St. Tammany Parish’s increasingly legendary food scene. In Covington, Mandeville, Madisonville, Abita Springs, and Slidell, participating restaurants—including Del Porto, Oxlot 9, Café Lynn, Gallagher’s, Dakota, LOLA, N’tini’s, Pardo’s, Hambone, The Wine Garden, and more—will offer prix-fixe menus under $39 that show off some of the best food in Louisiana, which, by extension, means among the best in the world. Both old favorites and up-and-comers will participate, leaving gleeful foodies spoiled for choice.

St. Tammany’s location makes it all but inevitable that this little slice of the South should emerge as a dining mecca. Across the lake from New Orleans, a global foodie metropolis, the Northshore benefits from the infrastructure, expertise, and enthusiasm generated by one of the few things the Big Easy takes seriously. Just a thirty-minute drive from the city, the Northshore food scene can interact with the one going on in New Orleans (and attract visitors looking for a new experience) while still developing its own identity. The farms, forests, and fisheries of St. Tammany provide an endless, delectable supply of the very freshest food possible, which the growing population of Northshore chefs put to excellent use—as do many chefs in New Orleans, which has long benefitted from the proximity of this lakeside larder.

Tammany Taste of Summer promises to become one of the highlights of the already-enviable, jam-packed Louisiana culinary celebration calendar. Wine dinners, culinary artisan baking demos at Bella Cucina Cooking, cookbook signings, special demonstrations at the Farmers Markets, Abita Brewery’s Northshore Food Truck Roundup and spirits tastings at the Southern Hotel are just a few of the events on tap. Follow TammanyTaste.com for up-to-date information and lists of participating restaurants, and clear your August calendars—you’ve got a lot of eating to do.

Make it a weekend getaway and book a discounted room through TammanyTaste.com!