NOLA, French Quarter, New Orleans

NOLA, French Quarter, New Orleans
I heard that regardless of what you think of Emeril Lagasse, some people love him and some people hate him, his restaurants in New Orleans are fabulous. He did win a James Beard award, after all. The last time I was in New Orleans, I didn’t plan [...]

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Crab Cakes, Bourbon House, French Quarter, New Orleans
You probably don’t know this, but I love crab cakes. Louisiana has fabulous crab cakes, so I try to order them whenever I can while visiting. So far of the trips I’ve been down there, my most memorable crabcakes have been:

Red Fish Grill where I had some delicious [...]

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Central Grocery, French Quarter, New Orleans

Central Grocery, French Quarter, New Orleans

Central Grocery, French Quarter, New Orleans

Central Grocery, French Quarter, New Orleans
Unlike my last muffuletta in New Orleans, this time we decided to go straight to the source: Central Grocery. It’s a small, old-fashioned Italian deli that created the muffuletta sandwich in 1906.

Muffuletta, New Orleans
The [...]

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Tropical Isle, French Quarter, New Orleans

Hand Grenades at Tropical Isle, French Quarter, New Orleans
After dinner we got a few beers to go and wandered down Bourbon Street. For some reason we wandered into a place called Tropical Isle whose specialty is a drink called the Hand Grenade. What is actually in the the Hand Grenade [...]

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Dallas :: Felix’s, French Quarter, New Orleans
Dallas had to work a lot over the weekend we were in New Orleans but there was one thing he knew he wanted to do in his limited spare time and that was go to a crawfish boil. He’s wanted to do this in the past, but it wasn’t [...]

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