posted 10-02-2003 16:17            

Try this site http://www.thecityofneworleans.com/shopping/

posted 10-02-2003 18:27            

Mother's for Red Beans & Rice, Ferdi's Special Po' Boy
Johnny's Po' Boys for other kinds of Po' Boys
Pascal's Manale for BBQ Shrimp, Old N'awlins as a close second
Progress Grocery is now closed, but whoever is in their place (Is it Julia's?) still makes a great Muffaletta. 915 Decatur St.
Napoleon's if you want your Muffalettas heated
K-Paul's for great upscale Creole and Cajun
Nola for the same
Commander's Palace for a one-in-a-lifetime dining experience. Go at lunch to save money and you can also go casual at lunch, not at dinner
New Orleans School of Cooking for an entertaining cooking class and a decent classic lunch of Jambalaya, Gumbo, Bread Pudding and Pralines

Some fun things to do:

Shopping at the French Market. Arts, Crafts, T-shirts, and more food to take home
A Garden District Tour
A Riverboat Ride
Walk, walk, walk through the French Quarter ("Catch a horse-drawn carriage, ride it down to Basin Street. In the old French Quarter, you know ya got ta use your feet. Dixieland and Hambone, I'm goin' back where I belong. I know what it means to miss New Orleans.")
Check out Mardi Gras World, the WWII Museum, the Cabildo and the Civil War Museum
Perhaps gambling at Harrahs, if you want to just lose your money (never seem to win there)
Check out the bars -- they all have live music. I particularly like the Funky Butt, as well as a bunch of them on Bourbon St. Just walk down Bourbon, and stop in wherever the music catches your attention

posted 10-04-2003 08:26               

The list you compiled makes me feel like going to New Orleans right away...

posted 10-04-2003 12:32            

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Originally posted by gidat1:
The list you compiled makes me feel like going to New Orleans right away...

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posted 10-04-2003 13:26               

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Originally posted by Hoc:
Some of my recommendations for food:

Mother's for Red Beans & Rice, Ferdi's Special Po' Boy
Johnny's Po' Boys for other kinds of Po' Boys
Pascal's Manale for BBQ Shrimp, Old N'awlins as a close second
Progress Grocery is now closed, but whoever is in their place (Is it Julia's?) still makes a great Muffaletta. 915 Decatur St.
Napoleon's if you want your Muffalettas heated
K-Paul's for great upscale Creole and Cajun
Nola for the same
Commander's Palace for a one-in-a-lifetime dining experience. Go at lunch to save money and you can also go casual at lunch, not at dinner
New Orleans School of Cooking for an entertaining cooking class and a decent classic lunch of Jambalaya, Gumbo, Bread Pudding and Pralines

Some fun things to do:

Shopping at the French Market. Arts, Crafts, T-shirts, and more food to take home
A Garden District Tour
A Riverboat Ride
Walk, walk, walk through the French Quarter ("Catch a horse-drawn carriage, ride it down to Basin Street. In the old French Quarter, you know ya got ta use your feet. Dixieland and Hambone, I'm goin' back where I belong. I know what it means to miss New Orleans.")
Check out Mardi Gras World, the WWII Museum, the Cabildo and the Civil War Museum
Perhaps gambling at Harrahs, if you want to just lose your money (never seem to win there)
Check out the bars -- they all have live music. I particularly like the Funky Butt, as well as a bunch of them on Bourbon St. Just walk down Bourbon, and stop in wherever the music catches your attention

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Hoc you did a good job listing this.

Can a moderator please move this post to the central boards and save it in the Faq or archives. Lets not lose this post in case it gets deleated later. Besides I want this infomation for when I go in May.

posted 10-04-2003 21:51            

You know that, after multiple years there, those were just the highlights. I have lots of suggestions and lots more detail on each one.

posted 10-05-2003 07:35               

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Originally posted by bigfrank:

Hoc you did a good job listing this.

Can a moderator please move this post to the central boards and save it in the Faq or archives. Lets not lose this post in case it gets deleated later. Besides I want this infomation for when I go in May.

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posted 10-05-2003 08:09               

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Have a Hurricane at Pat O'Briens, go to Preservation Hall, ride the St. Charles streetcar, if your are there in late March check-out some of the events at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival. Do they still have the 25 cent martinis at Commander's Palace at lunch?

posted 10-05-2003 08:18               

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Originally posted by sdwrdt:
I will put the dining information into the Louisiana Dining Guide, but don't put the other things into it. Of course, we could make just a Things to do in New Orleans file and then that would include it. What do you want?

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I have been to NOLA once and going again in May. I Think you should ask both Hoc, Gin Gin and Bruce to help compile a list. They go so offten that they are renameing the streets after them.

posted 10-05-2003 10:07            

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Originally posted by sdwrdt:
I will put the dining information into the Louisiana Dining Guide, but don't put the other things into it. Of course, we could make just a Things to do in New Orleans file and then that would include it. What do you want?

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If you're adding to the list, you should add the following:

Sid-Mar's (near the lake): Possibly the best shrimp, crab and oysters in town, and at reasonable prices. Their oyster soup and seafood gumbo are legendary with locals.

Gumbo Shop (in the Quarter): Great gumbo, good shrimp remoulade, and decent crawfish pie.

Dooky Chase (mid-city): Homestyle creole cooking with a heavy African influence. Best dishes are Shrimp Dooky, Creole gumbo, Shrimp Clemenceau, Stuffed shrimp, Crawfish etouffee, Breast of chicken a la Dooky (stuffed with oysters and topped with marchand de vin sauce). Very good fried chicken.

Galatoire's (in the Quarter): People rave about the Trout Meuniere, but also a classic, "old-time" restaurant in the tradition of Antoine's for classic New Orleans creole preparations. Consider Shrimp remoulade, Crabmeat maison, Canape Lorenzo, Oysters Rockefeller or Oysters en brochette. Also the steak bearnaise is great. Jacket required.

Antoine's (in the Quarter): This restaurant is splurge material only. It is one of the oldest operating restaurants in the U.S., and claims to be the oldest. They invented Oysters Rockefeller. There is better food in New Orleans, but it is done very well here, and is worth it once for the experience. Classic creole/french cuisine and classic presentation. Jackets required, and quite expensive.

Edit: By the way, I added these because they are not already in the New Orleans Dining list. There are a lot of restaurants already on the list that I heartily recommend. I still think that the Wyndham (used to be the Westin) Riverview Room's Sunday Brunch is the best buffet brunch in town, with great food, good music and a spectacular view.

posted 10-06-2003 16:18               

Fern

posted 10-06-2003 18:38            

The trolley also stops by the New Orleans zoo and Audubon Park.

posted 10-07-2003 06:30            

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Originally posted by GinGin:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I also saw one of Emeril's restaurants on the St. Charles route.

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I believe it is Delmonicos.

posted 10-07-2003 08:03               

Fern

posted 01-24-2004 08:43            

The most wonderful dishes we had there, in order of wonder: 1) a lump crabmeat and roasted beet salad with a horseradish dressing on the crab and a beet-balsamic vinaigrette on the plate; 2) a bowl of mussels in a saffron-cream-aioli emulsion sauce; 3) Free-range Chicken with a pan gravy and spaetzle. We kept turning the plate, because there was a different flavor on every portion of the plate. In the middle of dinner, the owner and executive chef, Ann Kearney, came out to see how we were enjoying it. When my cousins mentioned how much they liked the mussels, she came back out later with the recipe and sat down with us for 10 minutes, giving us a tutorial on how to make them. Delightful woman, by the way. She grew up in Dayton, went to school in Cincinatti, and eventually made her way up the food chain in N.O.

Peristyle is on the Northeast edge of the Quarter, at Rampart and Dumaine, but well worth the walk.

We also had Hurricanes at Pat O'Briens, which is a classic tourist thing to do, but I had never done it before. Pre-tipped our waitress a few bucks, who then set up a table for us right next to the flaming fountain in the courtyard, and we had a delightful time getting blasted on one hurricane each (I don't recommend more, unless you plan on getting so drunk and sick that you can't walk).

Edit: We ate at the Redfish Grill on Sunday night, because it was the only thing still open after our Ghost Walk. Food was pretty much unremarkable. EXCEPT the Double Chocolate Bread Pudding, which consisted of bread pudding infused with chocolate, and covered in a dark chocolate sauce and a white chocolate sauce. One of my cousins, who said that she does not like bread pudding, was running her finger along the empty plate, trying to get whatever last morsels she could scrape up. So, go there for the dessert, but not the dinner.