| [ptp-dev] Fwd: What to do and where to eat in New Orleans. |
To PTP-dev'ers who are going to SC10 in New Orleans... I won't be able to make SC10, but my friend ha sent me a list of her favorite New Orleans restaurants. Here is her email... Laissez les bons temps rouler! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Betty Gunther and Grady Hughes <bghgh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:43 PM Subject: What to do and where to eat in New Orleans. Betty's Personal Guide to New Orleans Here are some of my favorite restaurants in New Orleans. The websites have maps. Especially Drago's is a little difficult to find. Actually, it is easy to find once you find its street. You can get a good po-boy almost anywhere in New Orleans. I hesitate to make a recommendation because I haven't even begun to sample all of them. Go for a shrimp or fried oyster or soft shelled crab poboy. When they ask you if you want it dressed or not --that means with lettuce, tomato and mayo. Drago's or Mandina's would be great for poboys. Acme Oyster Bar has good poboys, too. Whatever you do, never go to a chain restaurant in New Orleans. Any little hole in the wall is better than any chain I know of. Gumbo is a day to day New Orleans dish, by the way, but it is excellent at the fancy places, too. Do let me know if you go to any of these places and how you feel about them. People are always asking me about New Orleans restaurants and I would like to know what works and what doesn't. The website at the bottom is really my bible on New Orleans. Classic -- Expensive but worth it. Commander's Palace (Garden District -- historic area -- same street as my high school) http://www.commanderspalace.com/ Bayona (French Quarter --- Went there last year spring for the first time -- exquisite) http://www.bayona.com/ Brightsen's Restaurant ( River Bend area -- sort of near the airport. Another of my favorites. Often they have rabbit. Soft shelled crabs in season. ) NOLA (French Quarter -- noisy -- New Orleans traditional pot cooking. Yummy. One of Emiril's restaurants. Haven't tried it, but I gather that another of his Delmonico's, is also very good. It is uptown(on St. Charles Avenue) and probably quieter. And then there is his first restaurant -- Emiril's. We have nearly died from overeating at that one. It is a grill.) Day-to-Day New Orleans Cooking Mandina's http://www.mandinasrestaurant.com/ Drago's ( Charboiled oysters or oysters on the half-shell) http://www.dragosrestaurant.com/ Galatoire's ( Classic French-- used to be one of the best -- I haven't been there in years, but probably still good. To get into the main dining room downstairs you have to wait in line most days. Eisenhower and Zaa Zaa Gabor waited in line here. Great shrimp remoulade. (starter) Shrimp Clemenceau was one of my favorites as well. Right on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter. ) Something different Central Grocery -- Decatur Street in the French Quarter right across the street from the levee. Takeout only. It is an old Italian grocery where the muffuleta sandwich began and where they are still made the same as always. See description at: http://www.gumbopages.com/food/samwiches/muff.html You get your sandwich and take it over to the Riverwalk or to Jackson Square along with a soft drink you bought the grocery. This is one of the great New Orleans experiences. The sandwich was invented to help out the stikers in the streetcar driver's strike something like 1910. Cafe Reconcile http://reconcileneworleans.org/ This is near the downtown business district and city hall in a terrible neighborhood. It was organized as a way to train the poor and troubled kids to work in the restaurant business. It has been around 10 years now and has contributed mightily to the poor of the city. The students cook and serve local food under the supervision of some of the best chefs in New Orleans. This place is not the least bit fancy but the food is very authentic. Your waiter's hand may be shaking because it is his first day working with customers. Worth a visit. Theresa Connaughton read about it and made us go. We loved it. The Saints and lots of other New Orleans institutions have helped this place get started and stay open. Best New Orleans Website with suggested restaurants, recipes, cocktail recipes ( The corpse reviver #2 is a personal favorite.) and http://www.gumbopages.com/ Music New Orleans has always had a vibrant music scene and I don't know where to go right now, but the above website will. But I will suggest that you go to: Preservation Hall -- for the old New Orleans style of Jazz. 726 St. Peter, French Quarter. Right next door to Pat O'Brian's which is famous for college drunkenness. See: http://www.gumbopages.com/no-clubs.html -- Randy M. Roberts rroberts@xxxxxxxxxxx |