NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Mardi Gras is just around the corner. With the beginning of the new year, people are ready to flock to their favorite king cake shop. Many may have their go-to place, but if you ...

While the rest of the world considers their New Year’s resolutions, revelers in New Orleans are giddy because king cake season is upon us. Carnival kicks off with plenty of parties and parades, and it ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Carnival season is underway in New Orleans! As revelers begin to partake in the fun, some may be looking for a festive cocktail to sip on as they prepare to head to the parade ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — You can have your cake and music, too. It’s The King Cake Soiree on Saturday, Jan. 10, at Ashe Cultural Arts Center. WGNO Good Morning New Orleans features reporter Bill Wood has ...

There was a visit to both a hub and a headquarters, a roadside trailer and a New Orleans neighborhood bakery and a French one, too. It was the Epiphany, Jan. 6, signaling the start of another Carnival ...

NEW ORLEANS — King Cake Hub, the New Orleans pop-up market known for selling king cakes from local bakeries during Carnival season, has found a new home in Mid-City after the closure of its last ...

Bakeries are for the morning and bars are for night. Sure. But then Mardi Gras comes along and early cocktails or late-night pastries make perfect sense. Now the creative Carnival spirit has blended ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — When Carnival season begins, so does the rush to enjoy king cakes, as the unwritten prohibition against eating them is lifted. WGNO stopped by to check out the new King Cake Hub.

“Why would anyone bake a king cake when local bakeries are turning them out by the thousands every morning from now until Mardi Gras?” an article in the Jan. 15, 1987, edition of The Times-Picayune ...

Yes, these customers could have slept in and then visited any bakery in Houston at a later time. But they wanted the real deal. So they showed up early for the King Cake Drive-Thru, which brought ...