I am going to New Orleans!

I haven't been back to NOLA since Donna's bar closed and then reopened under new management, but in all my past trips to the city this place was a favorite:

http://www.donnasonrampart.com/

broadview seafood >>> anywhere on magazine

(for crawfish & po boys)

I prefer Domilise's (they offer a split osyter/shrimp poboy that's pretty much my holy grail) but Mahoney's is nothing to complain about.

Not sure if it's still in operation, but the cafeteria on Loyola's Law School campus (corner of broadway and st. charles) used to be operated by the owners/chefs of vaughn's, which is some of the best soul food you'll find anywhere.

never actually made it out to broadview, which is a shame since i lived in that neighborhood for a hot minute.

My favorite place to get crawfish is on Jefferson Highway way out in the suburbs called "Bobby's Seafood". Almost as good as my uncle's.

Also, your sunday morning should be hot glazed donuts from tastees and then head down to maolly's at the market in the quarter for the best bloody marys. If you want amazing margaritas at any point hit up taqueria corona on magazine.

molly's* clearly.

Hank's on St. Claude is my fave crawfish joint. Sketchy part of town, though.

not that sketchy imo? just a few blocks away from gene's po-boys, which doesn't have seafood but their hot sausage is all-time.

Hank's is great! Also, a buddy of mine is putting on a backyard party/show (TATERBUG,BUOYANTSEA,TRACEYTANCE,BLEAKENDATBERNIES) at 3152 St. Claude if you're already in the neighborhood. Can't really vouch for any of the bands except buoyant sea (my buddy) who makes spunky mandolin noise punk.

Sad that the St. Roch Market never reopened post-K. I loved that place.

Has anyone eaten at Mosca's?

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/22/101122fa_fact_trillin

Yes!! It's quirky in all the best N.O. ways -- out of the way location, seemingly unchanged for half a century, cash only...) Oysters Mosca is food of the gods.

Not sure if it's still in operation, but the cafeteria on Loyola's Law School campus (corner of broadway and st. charles) used to be operated by the owners/chefs of vaughn's

you mean dunbar's. vaughan's is the bar that i work at. if you like strong drinks and misery come visit. also i make the best bloody marys in the city but if you order them when it is dark outside i will make fun of you.

crawfish are still pretty small and $$$. cold weather sort of delayed the season. i had some the other day and they were tasty if a lot of work.

hank's is good but hood as fuck. it's a little better since a bunch of the gutter punks barbecued themselves but still full of crackheads. also they changed ownership over the past couple years so crawfish is no longer their focus. mosca's is good but a trek.

domilise's is for tourists.

jordan is right about broadview seafood. also near there is mchardy's chicken. fucking great.

go to the bakery at dong phuong on chef menteur highway in NO east (past all the strip clubs and hot sheet motels) and get banh mi and other vietnamese baked treats (the restaurant there is ok, no great shakes, but go to the bakery shop).

Ha! I always get Vaughn's and Dunbar's mixed up because the Saints had a running back for about a 3rd of a season in the 90s named Vaughn Dunbar. And Domilise's rules and you know it.

kinda bougie i guess? (lol Expensive Sandwiches), but if you find yrself in the Warehouse District definitely check out Butcher on Tchoupitoulas.

also lol @ like every recommendation on this thread revive being about food

domilise's does a nice hot sausage but stay away from their roast beef.

right next to butcher is a place called nola grocery. dude does awesome sandwiches and has the best boudin in town. also they are real po boys, not the $12 finger sandwiches the yuppies are buying next door. though i love cochon, the fancy pants sit down place from which butcher sprang.

cochon you can eat like a motherfucker, get loaded and tip well for like $60/person. one of the best deals in town.

still haven't made it into Cochon; aren't both owned by the Herbsaint dude?. i gotta rep for Butcher's pork belly & pastrami sandwiches tho.

I survived on 32" po boys from Hanks this Mardi Gras.

As far as donuts go, I'm throwing my lot in with The Buttermilk Drop. Haven't actually been there, but I hear it's just as good as the baker/owner's old place Henry's, which used to be on St. Claude.

Oh, and any suggestions on what to get at La Boucherie? Going there tonight, never been.

i like their simple stuff, i think they get in over their heads with the ambitious dishes. the pulled pork cake sounds awesome but resist the urge. new orleans is great for many many many things but pulled pork is not one of them, even at the joint (who have the closest thing in town to good barbecue [tho people tell me hillbilly bbq in harahan is good but if i'm going to harahan i'm going to the shimmy shack]).

Okay, I am going to be here next month and I am already hungry. Jordan, can you send me some TIPS ON YOUR FAVORITE PLACES?

I need to get back to New Orleans

for sure, i'll email you. what part of town will you be in?

We're staying in the French Quarter

oh and you can just FB message me if that's easier since my ILX login isn't linked to my current email address.

done

just go to Verti Mart and get a poboy. walk a few blocks and eat it on the riverbank.

thanks Jordan!!

so they re-opened after the fire?

also quarter grocery has better po boys at like half the price, imo

(not to hate on verti marte though, it's been there for me when i needed it [ie very late at night after a gig, when gene's was too far away].)

i moved from NOLA in 98, last visited in 07 or so and Verti Mart was still going. i read about the fire but forgot about it. don't think i've ever gone to quarter grocery but my love for verti mart did start with late night deliveries of a wonderful assortment of goods (and good poboys). getting a poboy and eating it down by the river was probably my fav. thing to do in the quarter though. otherwise it's just a few nice buildings, a bunch of shitty tourist traps and some overpriced art shops.

vm reopened but people have told me that the new, clean kitchen doesn't produce food as tasty as the filth encrusted griddle of yesteryear.

it's just a few zillion nice buildings! I am consistently amazed that so many blocks of historic architecture survived anywhere in tear-it-down America.

Going for a week after the BCS crowd clears out -- would love it if everyone who lives/lived there or has been there would name one must-eat-at place. I've been studying Tom Fitzmorris's nomenu.com site like it was for the freaking bar exam.

bump?

a banh mi (or two) from dong phuong bakery in the east. it's the best sandwich in town, it's less than 3 bucks, it's a weird and wonderful drive if you go through the lower ninth and arabi and chalmette and up the 510 over venetian isles and past the NASA assembly plant.

tom fitzmorris is terrible, btw. he is pretty knowledgeable when it comes to super-traditional new orleans food but anything ethnic freaks him the fuck out. also he shills like a motherfucker for any shitty restaurant that gives him money--check out how hard he pimps andrea's in metairie. andrea's is laughably bad, like famously truly awful, yet he swears up and down that's it's one of the premiere NO-style italian joints. which is a damn lie.

however daily reading of his "diner's journal" is recommended as his relationship with his family as described is those columns is hilarious. there's all these passive-aggressive digs at his wife, fitz cluelessly wondering why his daughter is perma-single, some weird euphemistic writing around his son's "creative" west coast lifestyle. i half-think (hope?) it's all a brilliant troll.

also go to mosca's. mosca's is great.

trillin on mosca's

Don't forget this I Love Music thread re New Orleans--

New Orleans Brass Bands S/D

Brett Anderson who used to write for the Washington City paper for a bit way back seems to be still writing restaurant reviews for the Times-Picayune

http://www.nola.com/dining/

Was just reading about Mosca's yesterday, sounds good. Thanks for the rec and Trillin link. Re Fitzmorris, thanks for the heads-up. I'm not taking everything he says as gospel, but the site is a great reference repository to get a general lay of the land. I've been kind of following Anderson's series on finding the best roast beef po-boy in the city.

Bear's Grill in Slidell is on our route into the city, pretty well recommended from what I've seen, so we're probably going to have dinner there on day 1.

A friend's friend is the chef at Cochon, which is in the Warehouse District. It was very good. Pork-focused, obviously.

I am obsessed with burgers from the Clover Grill on Bourbon Street. I'm not sure if they are actually super good or if it's that they have good associations for me. When I lived in NOLA for 6 months I ate there just about every week. It's a small all-night place, the burgers are really thin, and they cook them under hub caps.

Wm, have you been there before?

I know that people turn up their noses at Acme Oyster House b/c it's so touristy or whatever, but GD, the grilled oysters on the half shell are profoundly delicious.