Save room for hand pies filled with wood oven-roasted apples ($8 for two) and coffee and doughnuts, which includes three magically flaky beignets atop a bed of espresso chocolate cream ($10).

Pyre Provisions is slated to open in mid-November in the former home of Bacobar, not far from downtown Covington. It’s the first restaurant from New Orleans chef Jeff Mattia.

Yes, the Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Pyre burning city issues, which was responding more than two years ago to residents fed up with the smoke coming from fire pits ignited mostly by visitors to the beach ...