A limited number of tickets are available for the Friday Night Party that will kick off the 2012 New Orleans Roadfood Festival. It promises to be a food-lover's night to remember, with participants including Doug Sohn of Hot Doug's Cased Meat Emporium; Poppy Tooker, host of Louisiana Eats!; Roadfood's Jane & Michael Stern; and Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of Public Radio's The Splendid Table. The party includes cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, meet-and-greet time, book-signings, music by Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes, and an on-stage Stump the Cook battle between Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Chef Frank Brigtsen of the renowned Brigtsen's restaurant in New Orleans. Click Here for tickets and further information. [READ MORE]

Oysters are served every which way at the New Orleans Roadfood Festival. Among our favorites are these buttery char-grilled beauties made by New Orleans' own Royal House. They'll be perfuming the air at the French Market all day Saturday and Sunday.