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General Discussion => Beer and Queso => Topic started by: Tralfaz on August 10, 2011, 12:51:26 pm
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First trip to New Orleans and need some foodie advice. Looking to avoid the tourist traps and find the real deal. Expensive or inexpensive, swank are dive, don't care. Looking for creole, cajun, soul food, etc.
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ger grad...paging 94cougergrad...please pick up the blue courtesy phone...
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My all-time favorite restaurants in New Orleans are Antoine's and Galatoire's. Sit downstairs only at Galatoire's (I had my own waiter at both places), and don't let the maitre d' sit you in the front room at Antoine's-that's where they put the tourists. Insist on going further back and act like you've been there before. My favorite lunch dive in New Orleans is Domilise's Po-Boys uptown on Annunciation Street. I also can strongly recommend another locals spot: Clancy's.
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Happy's recs are spot on, and I bumped my N'awlins vacation thread from last month for you. Also good are The Gumbo Shop, Magazine Po-boy, Mahony's (more po-boys... get the Peacemaker), and K-Paul's, which serves lunch a few days a week. Domilise's is great, and some on this site extol the virtues of Parkway, but I've not been there yet.
Mother's on Poydras serves a little of everything Cajun, Creole, and Soul. The bread pudding is divine but not for diabetics. You must eat there at least once. Acme is good enough, but it's touristy, so don't go.
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My all-time favorite restaurants in New Orleans are Antoine's and Galatoire's. Sit downstairs only at Galatoire's (I had my own waiter at both places), and don't let the maitre d' sit you in the front room at Antoine's-that's where they put the tourists. Insist on going further back and act like you've been there before. My favorite lunch dive in New Orleans is Domilise's Po-Boys uptown on Annunciation Street. I also can strongly recommend another locals spot: Clancy's.
I agree in full.
I would add Jacques I'mo's on Oak Street with the suggestion that you go on a Tuesday when the Rebirth Brass Band is playing at the Maple Leaf next door.
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I agree in full.
I would add Jacques I'mo's on Oak Street with the suggestion that you go on a Tuesday when the Rebirth Brass Band is playing at the Maple Leaf next door.
Seconded.
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Not foodie, but make your way to the Camellia Grill on South Carrollton.
Great diner food, including burgers, breakfast and chocolate freezes.It's also a nice tour on the St. Charles Line to get there if you take the trolley.
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Not foodie, but make your way to the Camellia Grill on South Carrollton.
Great diner food, including burgers, breakfast and chocolate freezes.It's also a nice tour on the St. Charles Line to get there if you take the trolley.
Their chili omelet is greatest hangover food of all time.
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I think we once arrived at a consensus regarding Pascal's Manale. I'm ambivalent about the barbecue shrimp, their signature dish, but their oysters on the half shell were the best Gulf oysters I have ever had.
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First trip to New Orleans and need some foodie advice. Looking to avoid the tourist traps and find the real deal. Expensive or inexpensive, swank are dive, don't care. Looking for creole, cajun, soul food, etc.
http://www.liuzzas.com/
My wife grew up in New Orleans and loves this place. It's full of locals and the food is good and reasonably reasonably priced. Not high end dining but just good food done well. Bring cash, as I'm pretty sure they don't take credit cards.
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I think we once arrived at a consensus regarding Pascal's Manale. I'm ambivalent about the barbecue shrimp, their signature dish, but their oysters on the half shell were the best Gulf oysters I have ever had.
I've only had the shrimp once, as an app. I'd be happy just to go stand at the bar and rap with the shucker while the oysters keep coming.
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Yeah, keep cash on hand, as several of the po-boy shops we went to only take cash. As does the Creole Creamery, which makes some good ice cream.
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I've only had the shrimp once, as an app. I'd be happy just to go stand at the bar and rap with the shucker while the oysters keep coming.
That is an unassailably sound strategy.
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It's also a nice tour on the St. Charles Line to get there if you take the trolley streetcar.
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I'm from Houston. Anything involving public transportation frightens and confuses me.
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Upperline (http://www.upperline.com/) is a cool, funky place in Uptown just off St. Charles. I know the owner's daughter and they are Nawlins through and through. Haven't been there in a few years but I can't imagine it's declined.
Our friends took us here (http://www.lacrepenanou.com/index.html) in May and it was fantastic. Not any of the cuisines you mentioned but I'm pretty sure the pommes frites were cooked in duck fat.
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Galatoire's is a don't miss Frecnh Quarter nostalgia trip. Haven't been there in awhile but it used to be coat and tie required except for priests - no tie but they still had to have a coat. Also no reservations, wait in line outside - tough when it rains.
Bayona is superb and Brigstens is a great experience.
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You don't want touristy? Well, damnit... you'll get touristy and damn well like it!
Cresent City Brewhouse (http://www.crescentcitybrewhouse.com/)
The Red Stallion beer I had there once was the best tasting beer and the pilsner there was one of the best I've ever had. At that time, they supposedly claimed to have a beirmiester (master brewer) on staff who brought his family secret to the micro-brewery. Oh, and the alligator tail was out of this world good!
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We like Cafe Maspero in the quarter. Pretty cheap and everything we've gotten there has been good.
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Looking to avoid the tourist traps
But you are, in fact, a tourist.
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But you are, in fact, a tourist.
All the more reason to avoid traps.
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All the more reason to avoid traps.
Obligatory (http://cache.ohinternet.com/images/b/be/Ackbar.jpg)
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But you are, in fact, a tourist.
Yes, but he doesn't want to dine with the masses in the 3rd class cabin in case the lower decks are scraped by a traveling iceberg.
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Yes, but he doesn't want to dine with the masses in the 3rd class cabin in case the lower decks are scraped by a traveling iceberg.
Exactly! Thanks for all of the recommendations. My list got very long, very fast. Gonna need to add a couple more weeks to the trip to fit it all in!