New eatery Sorella5 (616 Baronne St., 504-766-7158) lives up to its name. “Sorella” is the Italian word for sister, and restaurant is owned by five of them. Sorella5 opened Jan. 11 and offers what co-owner Laurie Lagasse calls “home cooking and New Orleans-style cuisine.”

The menu is loaded with dishes cooked from family recipes such as red beans and rice, fried seafood po-boys and “Nana’s homemade cheesecake.”“We’re going to be more known for Nana’s cheesecake than our po-boys because everybody that samples it wants to buy the whole pie,” Lagasse says.