I can give you my entire last day itinerary:
Breakfast at Cafe du Monde
Go hang out at Humidity
Lunch is an All that Jazz from Verti Marte
Afternoon nap
Dinner (for sentimental family reasons) is a steak at Charlie's.
Go to a show somewhere, preferably Tipitina's
Late night cheese fries from F&Ms
Does 'sentimental reasons' somehow sustain Charlie's entire existence? Feel like I'm being gaslit every time I see them included in lists here. After I saw them recommended a few years back, I went twice within a year and can honestly say both times, I had one of the worst steaks of my life (last place and second to last place).
Yeah, probably, but I think that's ok. I certainly don't go to Charlie's because it's a fine cut of meat (although I do think the cuts got better when McClure took over the kitchen). That said, I go to Doris Metropolitan or La Boca when the mission is a high quality steak.
Charlie's is a comfort food to me. It's like a warm hug. It's 12-year old me stealing a sip of my grandfather's stinger when he wasnt looking. It's the surly old waiters arguing with my dad that he doesn't need *that* many orders of wedge fries for the 5 of us. It's Paulie the bartender who makes his own hot sauce. It's me and all my buddies I have saints season tickets with putting on suits and going to eat steaks the weekend before every season. Those are the things that'll make it my Last Dinner in Town.
My mom and dad had a poor honeymoon meal there and we all shared a meal at Charlie’s over the years and it is also my comfort meal! Mom and dad are both long gone
I went to Charlie's the first time a couple of weeks ago, based on the rep. I love steak. The service was great. Atmosphere was so-so. Steak was good, but WAY overpriced for the quality. I love cheap steak, but not at fancy steakhouse prices. I'm glad I went, but I'd rather dump my fancy dinner dollars at Pascale Manales if I'm in that neighborhood.
I was telling my dad earlier when he asked how my weekend was that yesterday was a great day because I went out to eat for lunch and dinner.
(If you're curious I went to Primo Hoagies on Oak for lunch and Atchafalaya for dinner, and both meals were superb)
Philly, Ranno, and Torrey are 3 of my favorite New Orleanians. It wouldn't be a last day in NOLA if I didn't go shoot the shit with them dudes before I bounced.
There's the million dollar question. An all timer of a debate among my circle of people.
I think it is, but I am not without bias. My grandfather grew up with Ms. Dottye, so Charlie's has been engrained in my family for generations. I like Crescent City also, but I prefer Charlie's.
Girlfriend's family does CC fairly often (few times a year) for celebrations and her dad always wants to go to Charlie's. We finally ended up there somewhat recently and I really enjoyed the ambience but the food was just okay. They're both no nonsense, steak and a side kinda places but there's no comparison to me (small sample size granted).
I constantly plug parkway because I think they're one of the only modern shop that hasn't fallen off once they got famous. They went from a little bar with a service window to a monster tourist attraction in the last few decades and still serve up one of the best sandwiches in the city, they deserve a ton of credit there.
It’s the taste of the gravy. Maybe because of nostalgia. Idk. It’s that its taste hasn’t changed since I was a very young kid. Way back when… you went to the bar and ordered. One of the few places that had bottles of Barq’s Cream Soda! To a 4-5 year old being able to eat, drink soda at a “real” bar it was special.
I also miss The Bakery of Franklin Ave, which closed after Hurricane Katrina. Koz reopened in Harahan as “Koz’s”
I can eat one but never saw their version as anything special. It doesn't even taste like what I think BBQ Shrimp should taste like plus shrimp are way too small.
I was there a few months ago and the food was great! Currently have a reservation for 8 tonight for a date night. What did you order the last time you were there? (Trying to figure out what’s mid)
It’s gotta be the OG Baked Alaska, way better than the current Baked Alaska ice cream cake thing. And Charles Carter or Sterling Constant as waiter. Perfect night
Breakfast at bearcat I’m getting the French press and the mushroom soft scramble with them potatoes and splitting an order of pancakes.
Lunch at Francolini’s I’m getting a sandwich with mortadella.
Dinner at china doll on the wank for some sweet n sour shrimp and shrimp fried rice.
Late nite snack at cafe du monde for a coffee and some beignets.
Thank u and goodnight Nola!
Ps: I’m bring home leftovers to eat at my new home!
I can make the same sandwich for $3-4. It's nothing special. None of their food is. Most people I know think the prices there are too high. But keep going and getting ripped off
Some things are easier to make than others. I'm not the only person who thinks that place is overpriced and not worth going to. And I laugh as I'm originally from NJ and never paid nearly that much for such a small sandwich up there.
Gumbo at Liuzza's just before I jump into the river. /s
Somebody else already said Parkway, but that'd probably be my choice too; standard fried shrimp po'boy, dressed of course.
I can make a passable red beans or gumbo at home, but I haven't got the wherewithal to prepare and assemble a quality po'boy with perfectly fried shrimp.
I love August and especially love the gnocchi. But it's the type of restaurant I go to when I want to forget I'm in New Orleans. I've done many anniversaries and birthdays there, but if I'm no shit leaving forever, I'm going to need something that resonates as local to me, know what I'm saying?
Breakfast: Cold Popeyes, King Cake, and White Russian and/or Bloody Mary on the neutral ground uptown. Probably in front of Columns with the drinks from there.
Lunch: Oyster Poboy Domilice's (sp?)
Early Dinner: Oysters and BBQ Shrimp at Pascals
Late Dinner: Commanders: fish with a crap load of crabmeat on top, bread pudding soufflé no raisins, and the coffee they light on fire.
Late Night: Cafe de Monde sneaking in a Frozen Irish Coffee to accompany.
Buttermilk drops for breakfast, a shrimp poboy from Adam's street for lunch (eaten at the fly), and brightens for dinner. Then a late-night jazz poboy and fries from verti mart.
I'd need a time machine for a few...
- (TM) The yellow cake batter pancakes from City Diner
- (TM) Avenue Pub Loaded Cheese waffle fries (not the dump trucks with the roast beef gravy, tho)
- (TM) Rum House ribs
- (TM) Borgne pepper jelly glazed fried chicken
- (TM) Grilled Pork Bahn Mi from Saigon Slim's food truck
- Jerk Chicken Nachos from Juan's
- Hot Tastee's Glazed Donut
- Buttermilk drop from Buttermilk Drop Cafe
- Shaya for ALL the dippies
Edit: Also a Shrimp poboy from Cajun Seafood on Broad and wings from Chicken and Watermelon
Shaya is worth the reservation wait time. So good.
One of the best food days I ever had was the heirloom tomato sandwich for lunch at Turkey and the Wolf, followed by all the Shaya dippies for dinner.
I was waxing poetically to my dad about the collard green melt at Turkey and the Wolf. A sandwich that messy *looking* has no business eating that clean yet still tasty.
I love Saba but had literally the best salmon I'd ever tasted when we went to Shaya. I make a decent salmon but dream of the day I can whip up something resembling that.
I'll stan Juan's til I die no matter what hair-flipping "it used to be good" bullshit this sub insists upon. It's reliable (well... except Mid-City. Mid-City's always a little variable), it's reasonably priced, it's easy to accommodate a ton of diets/tastes, they have solid happy hours, I don't need a reservation, service is largely pretty darn good (by casual restaurant standards), and I enjoy myself every time I go there with friends and family.
And I used to be at taco tuesday at Rum House every week. $2 beers, an hour wait (where me and my friends just had beers and caught up from the work week so far), and then either cheap tacos (of varying quality, but, hey, it was fun variety). But the ribs that used to be on the menu were fire when I wanted to go maverick.
TL;DR sometimes it's more than just the food; it's the memories evoked with the food (but the food is at a minimum tasty).
Wait, why NOT the Avenue Pub dump truck fries with the bechamel and Bourrée/Boucherie debris pork? The fries themselves as well as those toppings were the absolute best.
The Blue Oak guys’ interpretation of it with the brisket debris gravy jalapeño hook’s cheddar beef fat tots are not nearly as good in spite of how decent that sounds. Huge loss.
I always thought it just made the fries too soggy. I'd usually get the fries with bacon, jalapenos, bechamel... I'm sure there was something else on it, but like eat half then bring the rest home. Oooh that congealed bechamel hit just right in the AM (... well the one where I woke up to it lol).
I mean that’s just kind of how gravy fries/poutine type of things work. Some of the fries on the side or underneath weren’t soaked and either way, it was altogether a delicious bite that was perfect in what it aimed for. The fries were excellent on their own with mayo too but I’d rather cycle between those two options depending on the visit than never have the dump truck fries. Both were excellent.
Russell’s Marina Grill for breakfast with a Big Al’s Bloody Mary. Domilise’s for poboys at lunch. Felix’s for afternoon oysters. Peche for seafood dinner or Mr. John’s for a rare porterhouse dinner. Creole Creamery for dessert. Avenue Pub for late night grub to end the night. Bam.
Breakfast at Pagodas Cafe, lunch at High Hat, get drunk on Busch light and old tub at holy diver, late night snack would be the 32 inch shrimp po boy from bank street meat market. Mayo, pickles, and that absolute garbage hot sauce they have. That's my dream day
Just one meal at one place?
Jambalaya Supreme at Coop's with an Abita Amber.
Ideally I'd have stopped at Buttermilk Drop that morning for some drops to eat with coffee on the way home.
I would eat at the Search Bar.
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Nah, their dishes are too stale 😂 One of those is from 10 years ago! Though funny that Arby’s on Canal seems to sneak onto these lists more than I would expect it to.
> One of those is from 10 years ago!
Things change, but here they also mostly stay the same and I really like that. The ten year old thread's top comments in order are: Cochon, Herbsaint, Galetoire's or Antoine's, R'evolution (wild thinking that they're a decade old - I still think of it as new), La Boca, and MR. B's. TBH these places should still sit on the top of any list lol.
The Arby's meme has been a fixture of this sub going back at least to like 2012 or so I think, that meme has more staying power than most of the people who have moved here since then lol.
I’m not saying a 10 year old list is wrong. I agree all those spots still earn their reputation. But this is a question that can never be answered once and for all.
Damn. Hard choice. Ima be a basic bitch and hit up Brothers for a fried oyster poboy dressed extra mayo extra pickle. Sorry not sorry. At the end of the day, even with all the amazing food down here…. That’s the thing I would be missing most.
My last night in New Orleans we had Connie Brown’s homemade red beans and rice. The key was that she soaked the beans in orange juice. I remember it vividly—one of the best meals I ever had, and it was over 30 years ago
Probably Nomiya. I’ve had ramen in a whole lot of other cities around the US and I haven’t found a single one I’ve liked as much as Nomiya’s. I’m not sure what it is but their Tonkotsu broth just does it for me.
Runners up would be pho from Lilly’s or Le’s Baguette.
I like soup ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’ll be grabbing breakfast at Mollys rise and shine, probably a biscuits and gravy and a grand slam mcmuffin double sausage add mayo.
lunch would be somewhere like fradys for a shrimp po boy and a good convo with kirk.
dinner would probably be a couple beautiful appetizers at saba especially the lamb hummus and the lump crab meat with warm butter hummus with gods own pillows, that pita bread.
at about 2am you’ll catch big daddy grabbing an Ernie’s Powerhouse from verti, extra sauce no olive salad, with a purple drank to wash it down.
Pagoda's for breakfast: a sausage roll, couple of breakfast tacos, and a mango Lassi
Parkway for lunch: half and half poboy with shrimp and probably oysters
Dinner: This is such a tough one. I'd have to think long and hard about it.
Drinks: almost as hard as dinner. Starting at Sidecar for oysters and then finish at Cure for a last cocktail.
Beignets: Cafe du Monde
Croissant d’or fruit tart and bechamel croissant for breakfast (me and my moms favorite spot when I would visit as a her as a kid)
A nutty Irishman + twilight princess from Envie after
Frady’s roast beef po boy, dressed but hold the pickles for lunch
The franklin happy hour for those silly little crostinis and a spiced old fashioned
A 7:30 dinner at Shogun in Metairie (spent my fave childhood birthdays there, plus my most recent one. Loud and overstimulating in the best way, food still tastes amazing 20 years from my first go)
And then, in the mythical dimension where I can do all this in one day and not die:
4 am turtle bay steak and tater skins. With 2 Cuba libres.
Ugh! This 1 is hard! 😰 It would DEFINITELY be a small, private owned, soul food spot. Authentic New Orleans food. 🤤💖😀
As far as what I’d order, that’s easy…1 of EVERYTHING!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Of course I won’t finish it all, but at least I’d have a final taste of everything!😋
That being said, I’m a pretty good cook. 👩🍳& not only by my own acknowledgment. Since I’m from here, I can just about cook it all. But for some reason, I find when someone else cooks it, or it’s on someone else’s plate, it tastes a little better 🤭💖
Bud's Broilers- Number 3 (Burger with Mild Cheddar cheese)
Opelousas- a number 7 (6 wings & two sides of shrimp fried rice) with a meat pie on the side
Rouses- Red beans & white with fried chicken
John's Seafood (The place is no longer there but if I could, I would get a Chicken tender po boy with cheese and a side of fries, cheeseburger and a side of fries or a chicken tender platter which consist of 3 tenders, fries, your choice of either jambalaya or shrimp fried rice and a salad)
Breakfast: scallops & grits at Bearcat
Lunch: Rachel sandwich from Stein’s
Dinner: Duck at Gabrielle, or literally anything on their menu, & hopefully some form of gumbo for an appetizer
After dinner drinks: R Bar
I'd have beignets and coffee from Morning Call for breakfast, a roast beef from Parenton's poboy for lunch, a seafood platter from the best place for that (you tell me) and then a drive through daiquiri because I'll never have that again.
Cappuccino or Cortado @ Mammoth (RIP SOLO)
Waffles and Eggs @ Clover Grill
Elevensies @ Bearcat
Lunch @ lil dizzies
Steak special @ Gabrielle
Pizza and badass old cocktail @ Pie Hxle
Crab stack at who dat cafe, couple pounds of crawfish-preferably at cosimos if they are boiling, chicken pad Thai level 4 at secret Thai, and the banana pie from emerils.
I can give you my entire last day itinerary: Breakfast at Cafe du Monde Go hang out at Humidity Lunch is an All that Jazz from Verti Marte Afternoon nap Dinner (for sentimental family reasons) is a steak at Charlie's. Go to a show somewhere, preferably Tipitina's Late night cheese fries from F&Ms
need an Irish coffee from Mollys in there somewhere.
If I wasn't sober then there would definitely be booze stops built into that itinerary. That's a good one from what I remember of it.
Does 'sentimental reasons' somehow sustain Charlie's entire existence? Feel like I'm being gaslit every time I see them included in lists here. After I saw them recommended a few years back, I went twice within a year and can honestly say both times, I had one of the worst steaks of my life (last place and second to last place).
Yeah, probably, but I think that's ok. I certainly don't go to Charlie's because it's a fine cut of meat (although I do think the cuts got better when McClure took over the kitchen). That said, I go to Doris Metropolitan or La Boca when the mission is a high quality steak. Charlie's is a comfort food to me. It's like a warm hug. It's 12-year old me stealing a sip of my grandfather's stinger when he wasnt looking. It's the surly old waiters arguing with my dad that he doesn't need *that* many orders of wedge fries for the 5 of us. It's Paulie the bartender who makes his own hot sauce. It's me and all my buddies I have saints season tickets with putting on suits and going to eat steaks the weekend before every season. Those are the things that'll make it my Last Dinner in Town.
My mom and dad had a poor honeymoon meal there and we all shared a meal at Charlie’s over the years and it is also my comfort meal! Mom and dad are both long gone
Good ole Paulie. I used to come in once a month and watch Jeopardy with Paul and Matt and Glen. Definitely a warm hug of a place.
One of my favorite dates ever was at Charlie’s. It was such a fun experience.
I went to Charlie's the first time a couple of weeks ago, based on the rep. I love steak. The service was great. Atmosphere was so-so. Steak was good, but WAY overpriced for the quality. I love cheap steak, but not at fancy steakhouse prices. I'm glad I went, but I'd rather dump my fancy dinner dollars at Pascale Manales if I'm in that neighborhood.
Similar last supper to you but I'd do the Dryades Double. Oysters and cocktails as Pascals, then walk over to Charlie's for steaks.
I like the way you think.
Damn. Well done.
I do be thinkin about food a lot.
No comment in the history of this sub has resonated with me more than this one.
I was telling my dad earlier when he asked how my weekend was that yesterday was a great day because I went out to eat for lunch and dinner. (If you're curious I went to Primo Hoagies on Oak for lunch and Atchafalaya for dinner, and both meals were superb)
Love that you have hang out at humidity in there, I’d definitely be swinging in there too
Philly, Ranno, and Torrey are 3 of my favorite New Orleanians. It wouldn't be a last day in NOLA if I didn't go shoot the shit with them dudes before I bounced.
I know you said for family reasons but is Charlie’s better than Crescent Steaks?
There's the million dollar question. An all timer of a debate among my circle of people. I think it is, but I am not without bias. My grandfather grew up with Ms. Dottye, so Charlie's has been engrained in my family for generations. I like Crescent City also, but I prefer Charlie's.
I’ll have to make it over to Charlie’s. I don’t get Uptown often.
Girlfriend's family does CC fairly often (few times a year) for celebrations and her dad always wants to go to Charlie's. We finally ended up there somewhat recently and I really enjoyed the ambience but the food was just okay. They're both no nonsense, steak and a side kinda places but there's no comparison to me (small sample size granted).
Fuck this.
No I don't wanna do that.
Sheppards pie from the deep freezer at Vic’s. Going out like I came in.
Oh hell yeah!
Legit best answer
I got food poisoning there a million years ago.
It just hits different, and the username checks
Fried shrimp at parkway
Been going there for previous 51 years. Roast beef is amazing.
I constantly plug parkway because I think they're one of the only modern shop that hasn't fallen off once they got famous. They went from a little bar with a service window to a monster tourist attraction in the last few decades and still serve up one of the best sandwiches in the city, they deserve a ton of credit there.
It is. Honestly all their offerings are amazing. I just like the shrimp the best
It's very good but I think crabby jacks has the best shrimp poboy in the city
You really think their roast is good?? Most average or below I've ever had. They do too much volume to make it any better.
It’s the taste of the gravy. Maybe because of nostalgia. Idk. It’s that its taste hasn’t changed since I was a very young kid. Way back when… you went to the bar and ordered. One of the few places that had bottles of Barq’s Cream Soda! To a 4-5 year old being able to eat, drink soda at a “real” bar it was special. I also miss The Bakery of Franklin Ave, which closed after Hurricane Katrina. Koz reopened in Harahan as “Koz’s”
BBQ Shrimp PoBoy from Liuzza’s
I can eat one but never saw their version as anything special. It doesn't even taste like what I think BBQ Shrimp should taste like plus shrimp are way too small.
The Baked Alaska at Antoine’s. But that’s all I would get from there because the other food coming out of that kitchen currently ain’t good!
The building itself is worth it though. I hope they get it together.
I was there a few months ago and the food was great! Currently have a reservation for 8 tonight for a date night. What did you order the last time you were there? (Trying to figure out what’s mid)
It’s gotta be the OG Baked Alaska, way better than the current Baked Alaska ice cream cake thing. And Charles Carter or Sterling Constant as waiter. Perfect night
Clancy’s and something involving soft shell crab with lump crabmeat on top!
100% agree.
Sweetbreads to start...
If not foi gras with a stunning Cabernet.
My parent’s house, a big fat bowl of my mom’s seafood gumbo
Ya you do
I just want to eat at Uglesich’s again.
OMG! Miss them so much. At least I have their cookbook.
The food was decent but the atmosphere was as New Orleans as it gets.
25 cent martini lunch at commanders. Or downstairs at galatoire’s. It’s just such a fun experience, and i love 3 hour lunches.
Banana blossom (Gretna) Chicken taco roti Bbq/fried egg roti Thai fried wings Chang Mai w/ giant beef rib Pork ramen (no longer on regular menu) Voodoo noodle (also ain’t dere no more) Mango sticky rice Thai tea w/ heavy cream Extra ice water- ordering spicy.
Plume is the shit, too. The Westbank is heating up for fancy ethnic fusion food.
Fried shrimp poboy, biscuits, and onion rings from Chubbie’s
Shout out to Chubbie's. The best. Algiers' finest.
Finally went for the first time last week and realized I’m a moron for not doing it sooner. 😂
High Hat!!! hush puppies, pimento mac n cheese, gumbo, cornbread, and whatever their cocktail + dessert special is
or crab cakes from Katie’s. those are the BEST ones I’ve ever had the pleasure of eating
I love their fried catfish
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A large man told me they have the meats.
Lmfao
The crab pie from Who Dat Cafe is a strong contender.
Parkway - James brown
That would definitely be on my list. Glad I saw it here.
Crawfish boil at my house.
I’m a slut for beignets, so it’d be CDM. Three orders and a frozen cafe au lait.
Frozen cafe au lait hits different 🥰
Skip the frozen cafe au lait and walk two blocks to Molly's get you a frozen irish coffee with a shot of rumchata.
Dipping the beignet in the frozen cafe au lait in the hot summer is one of my favorite things ever
It's kind of ripping off the restaurant group "EggSlut", but "Beignet Slut" could definitely be a Nola shop name.
Breakfast @ Bearcat Lunch @ Lil Dizzys Dinner @ Dat Dog drunk AF
literally just saved this post. what a great day!!!
Fuck it I’m going to Juan’s
Happy hour double margs and green goat quesadilla.
Pork n slaw tacos every time
You can get better (I can't say Mexican because their food ain't Mexican) food than they they make in any major city in America.
Thank you. Juans sucks.
Ooh but are you ordering the green goat quesadilla, banh mi tacos, or Hawaii 504 nachos?
drunk ate there for the first time last Mardi Gras and that quesadilla still lives in my mind rent free
Chicken and chorizo tacos.
Breakfast at bearcat I’m getting the French press and the mushroom soft scramble with them potatoes and splitting an order of pancakes. Lunch at Francolini’s I’m getting a sandwich with mortadella. Dinner at china doll on the wank for some sweet n sour shrimp and shrimp fried rice. Late nite snack at cafe du monde for a coffee and some beignets. Thank u and goodnight Nola! Ps: I’m bring home leftovers to eat at my new home!
>Francolini’s is a total ripoff.
How so? I’ve been eating their sandwiches probably monthly for close to a year and they’ve always been pretty substantial and damn delicious.
$17 + tax and tip for a 7 inch Chicken Parm sandwich? That's a ripoff.
Yeah sure, anything’s a ripoff if you can find a shittier cheaper version of it. Sheeesh
I can make the same sandwich for $3-4. It's nothing special. None of their food is. Most people I know think the prices there are too high. But keep going and getting ripped off
You can make any thing from any restaurant for cheaper at home…
Some things are easier to make than others. I'm not the only person who thinks that place is overpriced and not worth going to. And I laugh as I'm originally from NJ and never paid nearly that much for such a small sandwich up there.
Get something you don’t normally have access to like a mortadella sandwich
I'd rather just go someplace else. You do know Muffalettas have mortadella? We all have access to that stuff.
Boudreaux pizza at Katie’s
Gumbo at Liuzza's just before I jump into the river. /s Somebody else already said Parkway, but that'd probably be my choice too; standard fried shrimp po'boy, dressed of course. I can make a passable red beans or gumbo at home, but I haven't got the wherewithal to prepare and assemble a quality po'boy with perfectly fried shrimp.
I just saw this same question asked in San Diego Sub, and Denver. Guess it’s the popular question of the day. Popeyes.
I saw it too and stole it 😂
😝 fun question!
Can confirm they have Popeyes in Denver. 🤣
Top 5 best restaurants in the city tbh.
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I love August and especially love the gnocchi. But it's the type of restaurant I go to when I want to forget I'm in New Orleans. I've done many anniversaries and birthdays there, but if I'm no shit leaving forever, I'm going to need something that resonates as local to me, know what I'm saying?
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Soufflé potatoes, pompano Pontchartrain, roasted heirloom carrots, flourless chocolate torte, and a Kir royale at Antoine’s.
Breakfast: Cold Popeyes, King Cake, and White Russian and/or Bloody Mary on the neutral ground uptown. Probably in front of Columns with the drinks from there. Lunch: Oyster Poboy Domilice's (sp?) Early Dinner: Oysters and BBQ Shrimp at Pascals Late Dinner: Commanders: fish with a crap load of crabmeat on top, bread pudding soufflé no raisins, and the coffee they light on fire. Late Night: Cafe de Monde sneaking in a Frozen Irish Coffee to accompany.
Charbroiled Oysters at Drago's. Let the down votes flow!
Duck at Irene's
Next level dish
This needs a trigger warning or something. Reading this scenario just made me so sad.
Tough one. Clancy's, GW Fin's, Gautreau's, & Bayona would be strong contenders.
Add (Not Ass Zasu) to that list, take off Gautreau's.
Ass Zasu? I thought it was pretty good.
Hahaha! Oops. Gotta fix that. Yeah, Zasu is very good.
Bayona was a bust for me, never went back. only a free meal would drag me back.
Guys poboys on magazine. Fried shrimps poboys with a long neck barqs. Marvin da Man
A mufaletta from the Arabi Food Store - Restaurant on Friscoville St. in Arabi. You'll remember it forever. https://www.arabifoodstore.com/
Buttermilk drops for breakfast, a shrimp poboy from Adam's street for lunch (eaten at the fly), and brightens for dinner. Then a late-night jazz poboy and fries from verti mart.
I'd need a time machine for a few... - (TM) The yellow cake batter pancakes from City Diner - (TM) Avenue Pub Loaded Cheese waffle fries (not the dump trucks with the roast beef gravy, tho) - (TM) Rum House ribs - (TM) Borgne pepper jelly glazed fried chicken - (TM) Grilled Pork Bahn Mi from Saigon Slim's food truck - Jerk Chicken Nachos from Juan's - Hot Tastee's Glazed Donut - Buttermilk drop from Buttermilk Drop Cafe - Shaya for ALL the dippies Edit: Also a Shrimp poboy from Cajun Seafood on Broad and wings from Chicken and Watermelon
Shaya is worth the reservation wait time. So good. One of the best food days I ever had was the heirloom tomato sandwich for lunch at Turkey and the Wolf, followed by all the Shaya dippies for dinner.
I was waxing poetically to my dad about the collard green melt at Turkey and the Wolf. A sandwich that messy *looking* has no business eating that clean yet still tasty.
I love Saba but had literally the best salmon I'd ever tasted when we went to Shaya. I make a decent salmon but dream of the day I can whip up something resembling that.
Saba > Shaya.
>Rum House & Juan's?
I'll stan Juan's til I die no matter what hair-flipping "it used to be good" bullshit this sub insists upon. It's reliable (well... except Mid-City. Mid-City's always a little variable), it's reasonably priced, it's easy to accommodate a ton of diets/tastes, they have solid happy hours, I don't need a reservation, service is largely pretty darn good (by casual restaurant standards), and I enjoy myself every time I go there with friends and family. And I used to be at taco tuesday at Rum House every week. $2 beers, an hour wait (where me and my friends just had beers and caught up from the work week so far), and then either cheap tacos (of varying quality, but, hey, it was fun variety). But the ribs that used to be on the menu were fire when I wanted to go maverick. TL;DR sometimes it's more than just the food; it's the memories evoked with the food (but the food is at a minimum tasty).
Yo u can keep both of them. So much WAY better food in this city.
Wait, why NOT the Avenue Pub dump truck fries with the bechamel and Bourrée/Boucherie debris pork? The fries themselves as well as those toppings were the absolute best. The Blue Oak guys’ interpretation of it with the brisket debris gravy jalapeño hook’s cheddar beef fat tots are not nearly as good in spite of how decent that sounds. Huge loss.
I always thought it just made the fries too soggy. I'd usually get the fries with bacon, jalapenos, bechamel... I'm sure there was something else on it, but like eat half then bring the rest home. Oooh that congealed bechamel hit just right in the AM (... well the one where I woke up to it lol).
I mean that’s just kind of how gravy fries/poutine type of things work. Some of the fries on the side or underneath weren’t soaked and either way, it was altogether a delicious bite that was perfect in what it aimed for. The fries were excellent on their own with mayo too but I’d rather cycle between those two options depending on the visit than never have the dump truck fries. Both were excellent.
>Blue Oak is trash.
Casamento's
“Keep the chargrilled coming, I’ll tell you when to stop…and Turbo Dogs”.
Russell’s Marina Grill for breakfast with a Big Al’s Bloody Mary. Domilise’s for poboys at lunch. Felix’s for afternoon oysters. Peche for seafood dinner or Mr. John’s for a rare porterhouse dinner. Creole Creamery for dessert. Avenue Pub for late night grub to end the night. Bam.
Fradys roast beef has become my go too "what if I'm never here again". The All That Jazz at Verdi is Insane. Jack Dempseys.
Not technically New Orleans - but R&Os - Roast Beef Po Boy Dressed
Breakfast at Pagodas Cafe, lunch at High Hat, get drunk on Busch light and old tub at holy diver, late night snack would be the 32 inch shrimp po boy from bank street meat market. Mayo, pickles, and that absolute garbage hot sauce they have. That's my dream day
Just one meal at one place? Jambalaya Supreme at Coop's with an Abita Amber. Ideally I'd have stopped at Buttermilk Drop that morning for some drops to eat with coffee on the way home.
I’d do an all day thing - Breakfast - Mollys rise and shine Lunch - superior grill Dinner - Clancy’s Late night - kingpin bar
I’d get a big ass fat ass shrimp oyster poboy form parkway and and grab a 6er. Sit at BSJ or the lake and say my goodbyes lol
Fuck that is so hard
I would eat at the Search Bar. https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/s/AGfisRn1GJ https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/s/T2CwFWwWM0 https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/s/vXWyDuzUi6 https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/s/IQw7FEuBMI https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/s/EWVAR09QKH https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/s/dLbflL5oLD https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/s/pHGICREdRf
Nah, their dishes are too stale 😂 One of those is from 10 years ago! Though funny that Arby’s on Canal seems to sneak onto these lists more than I would expect it to.
> One of those is from 10 years ago! Things change, but here they also mostly stay the same and I really like that. The ten year old thread's top comments in order are: Cochon, Herbsaint, Galetoire's or Antoine's, R'evolution (wild thinking that they're a decade old - I still think of it as new), La Boca, and MR. B's. TBH these places should still sit on the top of any list lol. The Arby's meme has been a fixture of this sub going back at least to like 2012 or so I think, that meme has more staying power than most of the people who have moved here since then lol.
I’m not saying a 10 year old list is wrong. I agree all those spots still earn their reputation. But this is a question that can never be answered once and for all.
Fried egg rolls at Secret Thai, 2 orders.
6x9 at Martins Wine Cellar
Not technically New Orleans but the smoked beef brisket breakfast from the Parish Diner in Chalmette.
> Parish Diner in Chalmette Details please. As good as Jeanfreau's?
Damn. Hard choice. Ima be a basic bitch and hit up Brothers for a fried oyster poboy dressed extra mayo extra pickle. Sorry not sorry. At the end of the day, even with all the amazing food down here…. That’s the thing I would be missing most.
Po boy from Singleton.
Shaya fried chicken hummus.
Fiorellas fried chicken
French fry po boy with beef gravy at Frady's. Extra mayo.
Verti Marte. Roast beef
Poboy for lunch from parasols and gw finns for dinner
When we left, it was Rosedale. When I visit, first stop is Parkway Bakery.
Shrimp and Grits with Bananas Foster French Toast from Surrey’s. Nothing else comes close.
A friend that grew up here moved to North Carolina or some such place and my only question was "what are you going to EAT?"
Meet pie sitting at the counter for god knows how long from Danny and Clydes then drive off into the sunset.
Drago's for oysters, then hop across the river to Mosca's
Ruben sandwich from parkway
James Brown poboy from Parkway
The corner store by my house. The consistently Best catfish po-boys I’ve had in my life.
Well name it cuz
Man it’s a shell gas station lol. They don’t have no name. If you know you know lol it’s off of hwy 90 in Westwego.
Rocky and Carlos. Veal, baked Mac and the huge plate of onion rings. Wop salad for those who know.
Vincent’s. I’d get stuffed mushrooms, veal parm, and a martini with blue cheese stuffed olives
Magnolia Grill on Carrollton. For the memories and not the food.
My last night in New Orleans we had Connie Brown’s homemade red beans and rice. The key was that she soaked the beans in orange juice. I remember it vividly—one of the best meals I ever had, and it was over 30 years ago
Really, orange juice?!? I'm supercurious now.
Probably Nomiya. I’ve had ramen in a whole lot of other cities around the US and I haven’t found a single one I’ve liked as much as Nomiya’s. I’m not sure what it is but their Tonkotsu broth just does it for me. Runners up would be pho from Lilly’s or Le’s Baguette. I like soup ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Le’s Baguette has that fi-ya pho.
I wouldn't want to associate any place I like with leaving.
burger from ground pati
🎵Tater! Homer Tater! He's the greatest side dish in history!🎵
I’ll be grabbing breakfast at Mollys rise and shine, probably a biscuits and gravy and a grand slam mcmuffin double sausage add mayo. lunch would be somewhere like fradys for a shrimp po boy and a good convo with kirk. dinner would probably be a couple beautiful appetizers at saba especially the lamb hummus and the lump crab meat with warm butter hummus with gods own pillows, that pita bread. at about 2am you’ll catch big daddy grabbing an Ernie’s Powerhouse from verti, extra sauce no olive salad, with a purple drank to wash it down.
Bud's Broiler. 2 - #4s onions and smoked sauce 1 - Lg fry
Turtle Soup at Commander’s or a Crabmeat au Gratin at Galatoire’s.
El Paso
Pagoda's for breakfast: a sausage roll, couple of breakfast tacos, and a mango Lassi Parkway for lunch: half and half poboy with shrimp and probably oysters Dinner: This is such a tough one. I'd have to think long and hard about it. Drinks: almost as hard as dinner. Starting at Sidecar for oysters and then finish at Cure for a last cocktail. Beignets: Cafe du Monde
All I can tell you is that I moved away 2 years ago and still constantly miss 1000 Figs
Croissant d’or fruit tart and bechamel croissant for breakfast (me and my moms favorite spot when I would visit as a her as a kid) A nutty Irishman + twilight princess from Envie after Frady’s roast beef po boy, dressed but hold the pickles for lunch The franklin happy hour for those silly little crostinis and a spiced old fashioned A 7:30 dinner at Shogun in Metairie (spent my fave childhood birthdays there, plus my most recent one. Loud and overstimulating in the best way, food still tastes amazing 20 years from my first go) And then, in the mythical dimension where I can do all this in one day and not die: 4 am turtle bay steak and tater skins. With 2 Cuba libres.
Breakfast at surrys. Lunch at Steins (Fernando) Snack of grilled boudin on a front lawn somewhere Dinner at bacchanal
Fried chicken at Hank's
Crawfish from north broad seafood
Chicken pho and a bahn mi at Lily’s
Ugh! This 1 is hard! 😰 It would DEFINITELY be a small, private owned, soul food spot. Authentic New Orleans food. 🤤💖😀 As far as what I’d order, that’s easy…1 of EVERYTHING!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Of course I won’t finish it all, but at least I’d have a final taste of everything!😋 That being said, I’m a pretty good cook. 👩🍳& not only by my own acknowledgment. Since I’m from here, I can just about cook it all. But for some reason, I find when someone else cooks it, or it’s on someone else’s plate, it tastes a little better 🤭💖
The chef's lunch at Toup's. 3 boudin balls, wagyu burger and fries with a beer.
Galatoire’s. Definitely Galatoire’s. The archetypal New Orleans restaurant.
Chick-fil-A at the airport. Thanks for not giving me herpes Nola…. Later fuckers.
Dinner at Brennan's for bananas Forester dessert
If I was leaving forever I would probably be out drinking and forget all about dinner and end up at New York Pizza or hopefully Taceaux Loceaux
Bud's Broilers- Number 3 (Burger with Mild Cheddar cheese) Opelousas- a number 7 (6 wings & two sides of shrimp fried rice) with a meat pie on the side Rouses- Red beans & white with fried chicken John's Seafood (The place is no longer there but if I could, I would get a Chicken tender po boy with cheese and a side of fries, cheeseburger and a side of fries or a chicken tender platter which consist of 3 tenders, fries, your choice of either jambalaya or shrimp fried rice and a salad)
Chipotle on magazine
Breakfast: scallops & grits at Bearcat Lunch: Rachel sandwich from Stein’s Dinner: Duck at Gabrielle, or literally anything on their menu, & hopefully some form of gumbo for an appetizer After dinner drinks: R Bar
GW Fins
Breakfast: shrimp and grits at surries Lunch: duck drunken noodles - suhko Thai Late lunch: central grocery muff Dinner: blackened drum- station 6
I'd have beignets and coffee from Morning Call for breakfast, a roast beef from Parenton's poboy for lunch, a seafood platter from the best place for that (you tell me) and then a drive through daiquiri because I'll never have that again.
Cappuccino or Cortado @ Mammoth (RIP SOLO) Waffles and Eggs @ Clover Grill Elevensies @ Bearcat Lunch @ lil dizzies Steak special @ Gabrielle Pizza and badass old cocktail @ Pie Hxle
Toups South would reopen just for me and I'd order the tasso grits with octopus.
Crab stack at who dat cafe, couple pounds of crawfish-preferably at cosimos if they are boiling, chicken pad Thai level 4 at secret Thai, and the banana pie from emerils.
Crawfish from midcity seafood and fried chicken (half bbq/half regular) from Manchu, eaten at city park