The restaurant group that Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman have built in their hometown of Memphis is as tight knit as they come. The two chefs have been friends since the sixth grade. They live a few blocks from one another. Their three restaurants all sit on the same block.

Now they've leapfrogged about 400 miles due south to New Orleans for their Italian restaurant Josephine Estelle, which opened this week in the CBD inside the new Ace Hotel.

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