Chef Alon Shaya's current slate of New Orleans restaurants includes Saba and Miss River. Photo: Chelsea Brasted/Axios
🍴Chef Alon Shaya is opening a new casual spot in Lakeview, we're told. Safta's Table will have counter service for breakfast, lunch, brunch and dinner. It'll open at 129 Allen Toussaint Blvd. later this year.
🫤 A dead manatee spotted on the lakefront is the fourth to wash ashore this year. Though it's got folks talking, it's not necessarily unusual, officials say. (The Times-Picayune 🔒)
A Tufts University doctoral candidate is the latest international student to be picked up by the feds and moved to a Louisiana detention facility for what authorities are calling activities in support of Hamas. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson did not explain those activities. (Axios)
