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suz

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We will be going to New Orleans with another couple mid November. None of us have ever been before. Based on recommendations the following are the dinner reservations we have made. Any other places that we must go to? Places you have been that you loved?

Clancys, Nola, Luke, Pascal Manale, Galatoire, K Paul and Cochon.

We have also been told to go to Commanders Palace for lunch Mothers for breakfast and Cafe Deluno for beignets.

 
Big thumbs up on Cochon and Restaurant August. Had we more time, we'd have gone to >>

Jacques Imo's Cafe, Herbsaint, Upperline and Patois. For something affordable but still totally kick ass, check out the Acme Oyster House for soft-shell crab or shrimp poboys and fresh oysters.

Finally, ignore the fact Cafe du Monde is ridiculously over-hyped as a signature N.O.spot and ... go. They have beignets. In fact, they're some of the best beignet's in town. It's a great little sit-down in the Quarter and did I mention the beignets?

Laissez les bon temps roulez!

 
I loved Cafe du Monde for the coffee and beignets, despite the wait.

If you are taking a taxi back to the airport, ask your taxi driver to stop there so you can get a bag to go!

Court of Two Sisters is so pretty.

John Besh's restaurant August looks gorgeous.

Wish I could say I have been there recently but it's been many years.

Have a great trip!

 
I'm stsrting to think that there are more restasurnts in NOLA than my home NYC!

Cafe du Monde is recommended by everyone. Will just have to have a biegnet or two or three.....
Jack-Imos was also just recommended to me by a girl/chef from New Orleans. Looks like another must go!
Luke is the same owner as August.
I will also note your other restaurants.
Thank you!

 
I'll put in a plug in for the not so well known joints of NOLA. I don't believe

you can get bad food in NO. And some of my fondest memories is of the small restaurants in the french quarter or the outskirts. You never sit by yourselves. You are seated at a community table and will get to meet people from all over, in the U.S. and outside, over a meal. Wonderful, and the food is terrific. Or sitting on the second story balcony of a little restaurant in the French Quarter over looking Bourbon St. eating the best Shrimp Etouffee I have ever had. One upper scale I would say you might want to do is Brennan's for brunch. Famous for their Bananas Foster. And my absolute "funnnest, you absolutely cannot miss" is Pat O'Brians. I could say, just trust me, go but I'll do a bit more. Go to the inside bar where on stage are two baby grand piano's with two women banging out and singing every song you have probably ever heard in your lifetime with a huge amount of people drinking their signature drink, the Hurricane, and singing right along....(gasping for a breath of air here) A word of warning here...their drink, the Hurricane or the smaller, Breeze, is delicious and goes down VERY easy and is extremely potent. Trust me on this! And OK, I admit it, I have a complete set of Hurricane glasses and a complete set of Breezes! But at least I can say I have a full experience to recommend? OK, I'll stick to that. I've added a link here to a cooking school in the Quarter that I went to. Fantastic! Much fun and I really saw and understood how a rue is made. This guy is terrific and the lunch is fantastic. (Edited to say..."this guy" is Kevin) I highly recommend.
Suz, I love NOLA. You can't have a bad experience.

http://www.neworleansschoolofcooking.com/calendar.html

 
Mothers is good but for fun and breakfast anytime take the streetcar up to the end of the line

and eat at the Camilla Grill. Stop in to Central Grocery for the best muffaletta ever! We love the Bar b qued shrimp at Mr. B's Bistro. Second vote for August- wonderful.
Take a walk through the French Market- cheesey but interesting.
A cemetery tour is also fun-especially if you run into a funeral procession. That sounded not so nice but it's more a celebration of life.

We go every year for a 3-4 day weekend and I never tire of it! You'll have a blast!

 
I can attest to those extremely potent Hurricanes! (Got a grocery bag full of beads to prove it!)

 
I'm feeling the energy and it's still several weeks away, thank you...

We like off the beaten track finds...

 
Oh, I'm trying hard not to picture you receiving your beads, as I have my morning coffee. LOL

 
warning, we had to check back into our hotel for an extra day after brunch at Brennans. just sayin'

 
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