What to order at Smoke & Honey in New Orleans

• The restaurant opened in Mid-City earlier this year, taking over the Bienville Street space formerly occupied by Piece of Meat.
• Vassiliki Ellwood Yiagazis started Smoke & Honey as a pandemic pop-up, according to Gambit, but she's grown into the brick-and-mortar restaurant with a focus on what she calls Greek and Jewish soul food.
• Think breakfast gyros, matzo ball soup, fried halloumi, stuffed red peppers and a Greek-style lasagna.

The vibe: The restaurant has gotten a makeover from its time as Piece of Meat. The building is now a hard-to-miss bright yellow, and modern art and murals fill the walls.

• If the weather's nice, you can also grab a street-side table like I did.

What I ordered: At lunch, Smoke & Honey has a gyro special ($15) with the choice of pork, chicken or grilled veggies stuffed inside a beautifully soft pita.

• The best part? They put Cajun-seasoned fries inside the gyro.
• Just don't make the mistake I did and take the wrap out of the foil wrapper until you're ready to really commit to finishing it up.

What I'm ordering next time: I've got my eye on that breakfast gyro, but the boureka (a spinach and feta hand pie) also looks perfectly snackable.

• A Coffee Science pop-up inside the restaurant also has me itching to try some of the inventive coffee concoctions, like the Chaos Theory, which is espresso with ginger, lemon, turmeric and morello cherries.