The Kitchen
ALFREDO NOGUEIRA
EXECUTIVE CHEF
Chef Alfredo Nogueira, affectionately known by friends and colleagues as “Fredo,” is a New Orleans native of Cuban descent, whose culinary style is shaped by his innate appreciation for Cajun cuisine coupled with his Cuban heritage and upbringing, with his first culinary memories stemming from his mother's and grandmother’s abundant home-cooking.
In the French Quarter, at Cane & Table, his seasonally-driven menus are coastally inspired and marry Caribbean flavors with Cuban influences. He takes a straightforward approach and is authentic to both his heritage and the region, utilizing culinary traditions that are now en vogue but that New Orleans cooks have been using for centuries, from whole-animal utilization to preserving and pickling.
THE BAR
Named one of the “Five Best New Cocktail Bars in America” by Bon Appétit, Cane & Table crafts tiki inspired cocktails with an emphasis on rum.
Our bartenders are not only masters of the classics, but also leaders and innovators in the cocktail community, having enjoyed recognition from the likes of Esquire, Southern Living, and Food and Wine Magazine. Cane & Table was also named a semi-finalist for the James Beard Foundation for ‘Outstanding Bar Program.”
Cane & Table works in a genre self described as “Proto-Tiki”, meaning,
"Cocktails are drawn not from the 20th-century movement that brought us the mai tai and the scorpion, but from its spiritual predecessor out of the Caribbean, an area with complicated and important ties to New Orleans."
- The New York Times
