Peter Vazquez might be the best chef in New Orleans you’ve never heard of. And he probably likes it that way. Once upon a time, he ran Marisol, a restaurant much loved and much ahead of its time. After Hurricane Katrina forced its closure, he served Sunday meals outside Bacchanal Wine Shop to those desperate for comfort and community in a newly-unknown landscape—a stint that eventually inspired a character arc on the New Orleans-based TV show, Treme. There were other pop-ups as well, other restaurant stints. For a while, he made…
