The Gumbo Shop (Shoppe?) is also really nice, but a bit more low key and reasonably priced than some.
Easy Bake. Flop-a-palooza. Woosh. Pop. I don't skulk.
Angel ,'Shells'
F2F 4: Too Much Candy, Never Enough Mojitos.
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: Madison, WI from June 20-22 2008! Official website.
brenda m - Jul 12, 2007 12:51:15 pm PDT #6086 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
JZ - Jul 12, 2007 12:58:11 pm PDT #6087 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Bacco is in the Quarter and has an amazing menu. It's not cheap, but if you go for lunch you can squeeze by for around $20 a person (I don't know if they still do it, but they used to do 25 cent martinis with the lunch menu), and it's all rich and satisfying enough that your stomach won't need much for the rest of the day and your mouth won't want to disturb its reverential reverie.
Hec and I got the lobster ravioli off the lunch menu when we were there, accompanied by a dollar's worth of excellent martinis. Easily the second-best meal we had in NOLA -- so swoonily, dreamily decadent.
Daisy Jane - Jul 12, 2007 1:19:08 pm PDT #6088 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
The Gumbo Shop (Shoppe?) is also really nice, but a bit more low key and reasonably priced than some.
Shop. That's one of my favorites.
-t - Jul 12, 2007 1:59:28 pm PDT #6089 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Come to think of it, a lot of places run really excellent lunch specials during the summer. Commander's Palace was doing $15 lunches at one point. Check one of the free weekly papers that will no doubt litter the Convention Center.
Ginger - Jul 12, 2007 3:00:55 pm PDT #6090 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I was at a conference at, iirc, that very Marriott about 15 years ago and the banquet was the best I've ever had at a hotel. I still remember the bread pudding with bourbon sauce with fondness. That is the conference members think of as the Conference without Coffee. The organizers, who were apparently not coffee drinkers or even human, decided that coffee cost too much. There's a branch of the Cafe du Monde in the adjacent mall, and between sessions, about 50 of us would hike over to the Cafe du Monde to get coffee and fortify ourselves with insulting the organizers and occasionally with beignets. It caused me to miss about 10 minutes out of every session, but that was better than sleeping through the whole thing.
Anyway. Cafe du Monde in the middle of the night. Muffalettas at Central Grocery.
Sparky1 - Jul 12, 2007 3:23:10 pm PDT #6091 of 10002
Librarian Warlord
Unfortunately, Bacco's menu doesn't have anything on it that my DH can/will eat. (Pity me! sniff!) I suppose I should be glad that we are not going with my relatives with the celiac disease, to add another wrinkle to food-finding.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 12, 2007 3:30:36 pm PDT #6092 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Cafe du Monde in the middle of the night.
Or breakfast for coffee and beignets.
SailAweigh - Jul 12, 2007 4:41:32 pm PDT #6093 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
ChiKat, that sounds likea winner! I thought your new sofa looked quite comfortable. What I look forward to is the cat foot warmer, I don't know what I'd do without one.
Vortex - Jul 12, 2007 4:47:46 pm PDT #6094 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Muffalettas at Central Grocery.
with olive salad, right?
runs and hides.
ChiKat - Jul 12, 2007 6:24:32 pm PDT #6095 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
ChiKat, that sounds likea winner! I thought your new sofa looked quite comfortable. What I look forward to is the cat foot warmer, I don't know what I'd do without one.
Yay! And, I'm sure Mickey will be glad to serve as foot warmer. He's good at that.