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Southern Food and Beverage Museum
The Southern Food & Beverage Museum is a non-profit museum based in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a mission to explore the culinary history of the American Southern states and to explain the roots of Southern food and drinks. Their exhibits focus on every aspect of food in the South, from the cultural traditions to the basic recipes and communities formed through food. The museum is located on the corner of O.C. Haley Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard in Central City, New Orleans.
The Museum was founded in 2004 by Matt Konigsmark, Gina Warner, and Elizabeth Williams, who was the former President and is now the founder. The current President and CEO is Constance Jackson. The museum got its start through a small exhibit on the history and influences of beverages in New Orleans. With help from co-founders Elizabeth Pearce and a growing board of interested foodies from around the South, the exhibits grew. Pearce curated an exhibit based on the revival of restaurants in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans called Restaurant Restorative that was featured at the 2006 James Beard Foundation Awards. From there, it was only a matter of finding the proper space for a full-sized museum on food and beverages that would cover the entire South, not just New Orleans and Louisiana. In the summer of 2008, the Museum finally found a home in Riverwalk Marketplace, a shopping mall right on the Mississippi River in the Warehouse District of New Orleans.
On September 1, 2011, the Southern Food & Beverage Museum announced it was relocating to a larger space on O. C. Haley Boulevard in historic Central City, New Orleans. The groundbreaking at Dryades Market building happened on June 25, 2012. The new facility opened on September 29, 2014. Its current location includes a culinary innovation center, an exhibit for every southern state, a Gumbo Garden, a Culinary Heritage Sign Gallery, the Museum of the American Cocktail, an absinthe gallery, and a temporary exhibit space.
In May 2011, Southern Food & Beverage Museum was named one of the five great museums devoted to food by Saveur magazine.
The Southern Food & Beverage Museum features a wide range of food and beverage related exhibits.
The Leah Chase Louisiana Gallery is a permanent gallery focused on the food and traditions of Louisiana. The gallery is named after New Orleans creole chef Leah Chase. Louisiana Eats! Laissez Faire – Savoir Fare, as the exhibit is called, covers everything from beignets to harvesting crawfish, to the evolution of jambalaya through colonial and native foods.
Bruning's Bar is a bar dating back from 1859 that is fully restored. It was salvaged from the wreckage of Bruning's, the third oldest restaurant in New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina. The bar is also used as such during special events.
As part of the Paul McIlhenny Culinary Entrepreneurship Program, SoFAB has a partnership with Deelightful Roux School of Cooking. The school is located inside the museum.
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Southern Food and Beverage Museum
The Southern Food & Beverage Museum is a non-profit museum based in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a mission to explore the culinary history of the American Southern states and to explain the roots of Southern food and drinks. Their exhibits focus on every aspect of food in the South, from the cultural traditions to the basic recipes and communities formed through food. The museum is located on the corner of O.C. Haley Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard in Central City, New Orleans.
The Museum was founded in 2004 by Matt Konigsmark, Gina Warner, and Elizabeth Williams, who was the former President and is now the founder. The current President and CEO is Constance Jackson. The museum got its start through a small exhibit on the history and influences of beverages in New Orleans. With help from co-founders Elizabeth Pearce and a growing board of interested foodies from around the South, the exhibits grew. Pearce curated an exhibit based on the revival of restaurants in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans called Restaurant Restorative that was featured at the 2006 James Beard Foundation Awards. From there, it was only a matter of finding the proper space for a full-sized museum on food and beverages that would cover the entire South, not just New Orleans and Louisiana. In the summer of 2008, the Museum finally found a home in Riverwalk Marketplace, a shopping mall right on the Mississippi River in the Warehouse District of New Orleans.
On September 1, 2011, the Southern Food & Beverage Museum announced it was relocating to a larger space on O. C. Haley Boulevard in historic Central City, New Orleans. The groundbreaking at Dryades Market building happened on June 25, 2012. The new facility opened on September 29, 2014. Its current location includes a culinary innovation center, an exhibit for every southern state, a Gumbo Garden, a Culinary Heritage Sign Gallery, the Museum of the American Cocktail, an absinthe gallery, and a temporary exhibit space.
In May 2011, Southern Food & Beverage Museum was named one of the five great museums devoted to food by Saveur magazine.
The Southern Food & Beverage Museum features a wide range of food and beverage related exhibits.
The Leah Chase Louisiana Gallery is a permanent gallery focused on the food and traditions of Louisiana. The gallery is named after New Orleans creole chef Leah Chase. Louisiana Eats! Laissez Faire – Savoir Fare, as the exhibit is called, covers everything from beignets to harvesting crawfish, to the evolution of jambalaya through colonial and native foods.
Bruning's Bar is a bar dating back from 1859 that is fully restored. It was salvaged from the wreckage of Bruning's, the third oldest restaurant in New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina. The bar is also used as such during special events.
As part of the Paul McIlhenny Culinary Entrepreneurship Program, SoFAB has a partnership with Deelightful Roux School of Cooking. The school is located inside the museum.