Serigne Mbaye, an acclaimed young chef who once cooked at Commander’s Palace before moving on to two Michelin-starred restaurants, has returned to New Orleans with a contemporary Senegalese pop-up called Dakar. Jyl Benson at My New Orleans reports the pop-up in Bywater takes over the former space of Polly’s Bywater Cafe (3325 St. Claude Avenue).

The New York-born, Senegalese-American chef (and Eater Young Gun ‘18) got his start in New Orleans as a line cook at Commander’s, quickly being promoted