Christine wrote in article ... > I'm headed to New Orleans in a couple of weeks for the first time! cool! > I know New Orleans has hundreds of wonderful eating establishments, but > I wonder if anyone would care to recommend a French Quarter place that > they just adore and why. Quarter place I adore. OK, I'm going to suggest three. First, Antoine's. It's been around since 1840, and is the ultimate in classic New Orleans Creole. We did a full feature on the place on Virtually New Orleans (the URL is in my sig). This is my all-time favorite "fancy" restaurant in town. Second, NOLA. I really enjoy this place. It's Emeril's place in the Quarter, and they have a very imaginative menu with lots of excellent things. They're as innovative as Antoine's is traditional. Third, Napoleon House. Can't beat this place for a muffeletta, hot lunch plate, or po-boy. The atmosphere is wonderful and the food is great. There you go--traditional, innoviative, casual/lunch. In addition to these, there's Port of Call, over on Esplanade. Best burger in town, although you'll want to catch a cab from your hotel. It's over on the other side of the Quarter, and I wouldn't recommend walking through that part of the Quarter at night. Too many un-lit blocks in-between the "tourist" section of the Quarter and Esplanade. Cheers, Ed.
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If you want to splurge, try Bayona. Best place I found for breakfast coffee & pastries: Croissant D'or on Ursulines St. Bistro at the Maison de Ville- another splurge. Try a small Italian place on Fenchman St.- Alberto's Also: Irene's Have a drink at Cosimo's on Burgundy St. Eat often- take a cab to the Mid-City [Bowling] Lanes on Thursday night and dance it [all] off to great Zydeco music.
barry i. strum wrote in article ... > Best place I found for breakfast coffee & pastries: Croissant D'or on > Ursulines St. Second this notion heartily. I've never been a big fan of CDM for breakfast, and Croissant D'Or is good breakfast food. Shame it's still not the old Brocato's, though. Cheers, Ed.
Christine wrote: > >I'm headed to New Orleans in a couple of weeks for the first time! > >I know New Orleans has hundreds of wonderful eating establishments, but >I wonder if anyone would care to recommend a French Quarter >I am interested in everything from fine dining (not too horribly >pretentious) to a hole-in-the-wall Po boy shop. I also like very spicy >food (though not exclusively). I always make it a point to wrap up a evening or open up a morning at the Hummingbird Cafe - outside of the French Quarter - where all the waitresses have tattoos and the folks at the next table are probably musicians who just finished playing all night at one of the jazz clubs. Great basic breakfasts. Authentically seedy ambience. Not the "best" part of town, but a walk on the wild side. Enjoy, Holly Moore
Have only been to New Orleans once, but my boyfriend and I really enjoyed a great little bar (with food) off of Bourbon Street. It's called the DeJaVu. Great red beans and rice and the nicest bartender. They have all kinds of food. Just a real comfortable place. In fact, when we were hungry and couldn't decide on a place to eat (too many great choices!!!!!) we ended up there. Go figure?!?!
For New Orleans neighborhood places try Frankie and Johnny's for fried seafood,Uglich's for lunch(nasty neighborhood,but very busy and safe at lunch),Praline Connection for Soul Food, Bozo's or Deanie's for seafood, Casamento's for oysters, Mother's for poor boys. The Camellia Grill is a funky grill, but be prepared to wait in line. Also the Bluebird Cafe for big breakfasts. Slightly up the chain: Lemon Grass is good Vietnamese, Brocato's is a few doors away for cassata and Italian Ice cream. Jack Spratt has a good Vegan menu. People rave about Gabrielle, though I have not been. Cafe Degas is good. Take-out sandwiches, salads etc. from Whole Food Company. Also new, sounds good but I have not been is the Hickory Farms Cafe. We love Crepe Nanou, but go early or you will wait. Another tick up the dollar scale--Clancy's for smoked softshells, Brigtsen's for wonderful food and pleasant service, and Gatreauxs are my favorites. A meal at Commanders is also worth doing. I never go to Antoine's or K-Paul's unless I have to. Bella Luna and Brennan's don't do much for me, but the Palace Cafe and Mr. B's are good. Have fun.
Holly M. wrote in article ... > > I always make it a point to wrap up a evening or open > up a morning at the Hummingbird Cafe - outside of the > French Quarter - where all the waitresses have tattoos > and the folks at the next table are probably musicians > who just finished playing all night at one of the jazz > clubs. Great basic breakfasts. Authentically seedy > ambience. Not the "best" part of town, but a walk on > the wild side. A hardy second to Hummingbird. They do great breakfast food and some of the best corned beef and cabbage I've ever had for lunch on Thursdays. The quality of the neighborhood (or lack thereof) has always been part of the charm of the place--St. Charles Ave. around Julia St. has been part of "skid row" for some time. The growth of the Warehouse District around the Convention Center has expanded out and down Julia Street, with lots of art galleries, shops, the Louisiana Children's Museum, etc. This stuff now pretty much reaches all the way down to St. Charles, so it's not as seedy as it used to be. Hummingbird, excepted, of course. :-). Cheers, Ed.
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:38:32 CST Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu rec.food.restaurants:52624 Have the bread pudding soufflé at Commander's Palace. Excellent! You might try Bayona in the Quarter and Cuvee right off of Canal. You'll need to make reservations weeks, if not months, in advance though. [email removed] Lee B. wrote: I already have reservations at Emeril's and Commander's Palace but would like additional recommendations. I'll be in N'orleans for 5 days and will try many more places. Thanks, Lee
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:58:01 CST Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu rec.food.restaurants:52631 Sorry to hear that about Bayona. Know of any reason for the slide? We'll be in town for Mardi Gras and plan to check Bayona out. Will let everyone know how we fared. [email removed] Someone wrote: Based on recent visits to Bayona, the quality of the food and service have definitedly declined. Certainly not worth booking over a month in advance in my opinion. Buzz
I heard that Susan Spicer has opened another restaurant Mid City and is spending most of her time there. After our last mediocre meal at Bayona, I mentioned some specific things we were not happy with to our waiter, and his response was to encourage us to try her new place.
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:47:07 CST Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu rec.food.restaurants:52649 On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:39:29 -0500, Lee Barnett wrote: >I already have reservations at Emeril's and Commander's Palace but would >like additional recommendations. Way out past Uptown and the Garden District is Riverbend, and there you will find Brigtsen's, and finding it and eating there is a very pleasant evening's activity indeed. Give 'em a call or use an on-line reservation service, but I sure liked the place. For something a little earthier and funky, eat waaaay too many oysters (is there such a thing?) at the Acme. Or go for a beef bebris po-boy at Mother's. I also liked what we had - blackened beef tenders with beef debris sauce for me, one hell of a good pork chop for her - at K-Paul's, and I don't care if the locals think it touristy; the food was good, and being a frequent traveller to Germany and its beerhalls, I like sharing tables, so no problems there. Hey, what do I know - I even liked lunch at Uglesich's, and horror of horrors, we must have been blessed there, because we walked up the two blocks from St Charles through what was clearly a rough neighborhood, and got there just at the right time to actually get a table and sit down and order. More oysters. Shrimp Uggie. Fried green tomatoes with more shrimp. Good thing I like seafood, I guess. Walked back down to St Charles too. Well, it was a bright sunny day at noon, so maybe there wasn't so much to fear. Taxi drivers will tell you they don't go more than a block off St Charles at night in that area. I would like to see more good recommendations of good places away from town, say along Magazine or St Charles or Carrollton. Maybe even along the lake somewhere. Just as long as a mix of public transport and taxi can get me there when next I visit, I'm okay with that.
> Yea ya rite, all those places in River Bend are great, there are more restaurants than I have fingers and toes. Up Carrolton there are Japanese, Chinese, Lebanese, and a few more. I like Lebonese Cafe and Ye Olde college in, the Street Car will bring you to them. Mona's opened on Calhoun St near kokopellies, so the choices out side the Quarter is a lot larger. Nola www.bigfoot.com/nolarental