[ARCHIVED THREAD] - In New Orleans (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 1/23/2013 3:19:27 PM EDT
I'm in NOLA for work this week and next. Hit me with some restaurant ideas. Looking for small places with great gumbo and etouffee. Going fly the lady in for the weekend so I want to knock her panties off with my cool knowledge of the city. 
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Cochon is my favorite place to eat in town. Behind the restaurant they have a place called Butcher owned by the same people. Great place to get a quick bite. Commander's Palace is amazing as well. Mr. B's in the French Quarter is nice. Cafe Beinget for breakfast. Parkway Bakery and Tavern for A great poboy and beer.
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Antoine's (kind of classy but its a interesting place)
Royal House (good Oysters) Stanley Restaurant (good Bfast stuff) K'Paul's (make sure you have a jacket) Luke's (they havea killer happy hour) I cant think of anymore of the top of my head, its a hard place to remember things from. |
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Some of the best food I have ever had in NOLA is a little place called Fiorella's Cafe it is just down Decatur St. from Margarittaville... Gotta go to Cafe Dumonde for beignets and cafe au latte too!! Great place to have breakfast!! For a "romantic" dinner check out Two Sisters... GREAT food... but pricey. |
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Cochon is my favorite place to eat in town. Behind the restaurant they have a place called Butcher owned by the same people. Great place to get a quick bite. Commander's Palace is amazing as well. Mr. B's in the French Quarter is nice. Cafe Beinget for breakfast. Parkway Bakery and Tavern for A great poboy and beer. Cochon and butcher is the bomb. |
| Commanders Palace is over rated as well as Landrys. There are tons of good places to eat. Stay away from chain type restaurants. Cafe Masperos is good for lunch Maximos in the quarter is good italian, the rib room, Cafe Du Monde is a must for beignets, Dickie Brennans steak house, Crescent city brewhouse has good food and good beer, The Gumbo shop in the French Quarter is really good. Also talk to the workers at your hotel. Have fun. All of these places are in walking distance. Just walk on streets that have some other people on them, do not walk on lonely dark streets. |
| Cochon and it's little brother Cochon Butcher are both excellent. Cafe Du Monde is good for coffee (stay away from the chicory) and Beignets. For a really good sandwich, Mufulletta 1 is enough for 2 people, hit up the Central Grocery Company (923 Decatur St.). |
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Cochon and it's little brother Cochon Butcher are both excellent. Cafe Du Monde is good for coffee (stay away from the chicory) and Beignets. For a really good sandwich, Mufulletta 1 is enough for 2 people, hit up the Central Grocery Company (923 Decatur St.). Also this place. I used to live in the woodward next door. |
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Cafe Degas and Lilette are solid choices. Clancy's is great, Herbsainte is very nice. Dante's Kitchen is awesome. Marigny Brasserie is a nice more casual place. Too bad Gabrielle's shut down, was one of my favs. John Besh places are good but done have the same qualities as the aforementioned places.
For me, avoid the so called "must go" places like Commander's, Brennan's (any of the Brennan fam joints), etc. Better outside the tourist books. The exception to that might be Jaques-Imo's. Go there once. |
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Quoted: Coops down from Central Grocery has the best fried chicken you'll ever eat. Get the combo plate with the rabbit jumbalaya..... While Coop's chicken is good... the best I have ever had was in a little town about 3 hours north of NO called Lorman, MS... it is called the Old Country Store. Alton Brown from the Food Network agrees... ETA: LINK FOR FOOD NETWORK ON OLD COUNTRY STORE! |
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ONE WORD SCORES. They will take a one dollar bill from your mouth with precision . Who puts a dollar bill in their mouth? 
ETA: Fecal matter has been found on bills. In fact, money can supposedly be more germ-infested than a toilet in your own house. That fact seems like quite the red flag, and it should. Pathogens like staphylococcus have been found on U.S. currency, and the U.S. is also one of the most likely countries to have E. coli — which causes some pretty unpleasant health problems like food poisoning.
You've probably spent some of my ass-dollars. |
| If you're looking for a higher end place, the Vineyard, across from the Bourbon-Orleans hotel in the French Quarter, is very good -- 'tis expensive though. I can't think of a place I ate at down there that wasn't good, though -- the other posters' suggestions are good ones as well. |
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Tom Fitzmoris is a local food guy with his own radio show. He really knows his stuff and I think he is a native New Orleanian. He is usually spot on with his recommendations. John Besh's places are usualy on point. He is big into Local Fresh ingredients. |
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Coops. Order the chicken chuh-kop-o-lis (I have no idea how to spell it) Great meal Tchoupitoulas Pronounced "chop-a-tool-us" |