After a day of walking the streets of the French Quarter, we found a dinner of oysters, shrimp, crabcakes, and gumbo at The French Market Cafe. It was pretty neat watching the local fishermen pull up and deliver bushels of seriously huge shrimp they had just caught - our dinner was quite fresh, I would say!
We were looking forward to having breakfast at the famous Cafe Du Monde - but when we got there the line for a table was about 30 people long. We decided to seek out something else we had been wanting to try: Po'Boys. So we stopped in at Johnny's Po'Boys and were not disappointed. I ordered the Shrimp Po'Boy and it was really yummy. I think many people agree that Johnny's Po'Boys are the best, judging from the line!
Our next stop was, yes, for more food. Since we were headed across town for the music festival soon, we stopped in at The Central Grocery Co. for a famous muffuletta to go. We actually devoured the thing later that night, before I remembered to snap a photo... but let me tell you, that was GOOD.
As luck would have it, Southern Candymakers shop was located right next door to our hotel. We stopped in for some of the best pralines I have had... I recommend the peanut butter pralines, especially when warm...
The next morning, we decided to head out early and beat the crowds to Cafe Du Monde. It worked. We found a table right away and ordered the breakfast New Orleans is known for - cafe au lait and beignets!
On our way out, we did end up stopping at a "chain" restaurant - but only because we were told it had some of the best gumbo (yes, more gumbo). And it did.
And I suppose no trip to Louisiana would be complete without a bag of Zapp's chips... ours were Key Lime flavored. They were... unusual tasting, but I would not say they were awful!
Luckily, we found ourselves walking quite a bit this weekend - so we didn't feel too bad about all the fantastic food we ate!
4 comments:
Oh, good heavens, I am booking a flight now! Can't decide if I'm craving the po'boys, cafe au lait and beignets or the muffulettas (all of which I have heard of before and craved even then!) the most! So glad you all had an obviously wonderful time. Next up: music?
(No Holly?)
BTW, the picture of the oysters on the half shell sign is totally cool. Every time you look at it, you see something else. Very neat shot!
I don't know what po'boys or mufulettas are but those beignets and cafe au lait look pretty darn good to me!
did you actually have shrimp po'boys for breakfast?
Ummmm, yeah. It was about 10:30, but they are an hour behind, so really it felt like 11:30 to us... plus it was a REALLY GOOD POBOY! You can get served anything at anytime. There is really no concept of time down there. Cafe du monde is open 24 hours, and there were plenty of bars open for breakfast! (for other people of course)
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