New Orleans, LA

[MplsTaper]

Making this thread for Tyler so he can reference it when he moves to New Orleans. Will add more later. Please join in if you want to.

Music Venues:

The Maple Leaf
Saturn Bar
Santos
Circle Bar
Tipitina's Uptown
The Howlin' Wolf
Saenger Theatre
Poor Boys Bar
One Eyed Jacks
Chickie Wah Wah
Siberia Lounge
Bullet's Sports Bar
Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar
The Spotted Cat
The Apple Barrel
Preservation Hall
Three Muses

Favorite bars:

Pal's Lounge (Mid-City)
The Saint Bar & Lounge
Ms. Mae's (Uptown)
Brothers III Lounge (Uptown)
Snake & Jake's (Uptown)
B J's Lounge (Bywater)
Bar Redux (Bywater)
Vaughan's Lounge (Bywater)
J&J's Sports Lounge (Bywater)
Saturn Bar (Bywater)
Kajun's Pub
First and last stop bar
The Abbey (French Quarter)
Chuck's (Central Business District)
Lucky's Bar
Verret's Lounge
Out In the Cold (Irish Channel)
Mayfair Lounge (Touro)
Milan Lounge

Worth a stop:

The Friendly Bar
The John
Apple Barrel
Molly's at the Market (French Quarter)
Erin Rose (French Quarter)
Bud Rip's (Bywater)
St Roch Tavern (Bywater)
Henry's Uptown Bar (est 1900)
Chart Room (French Quarter)

Haven't been:

Marie's Bar
Cutter's Bar
Melvin's Bar (Marginy)
Rendezvous (Garden District)
Robert's Bar
Finn McCool's (Mid-City)
The Alibi (French Quarter)
Iggy's

Po' Boys:

Frady's
Guy's Po-Boys
Avery's On Tulane (closes early)
Liuzza's by the Track (closes at 7:30, closed Sundays, BBQ Shrimp)
Verti Marte (24 hours)
Gene's Po-Boys (24 hours, hot sausage)
Parkway (open til 10, closed Tuesday, half & half or roast beef)
Singleton's Mini Mart
Favori
Bevi Seafood Co.
Adams Street Grocery & Deli
R & O (roast beef)
Crabby Jack's
Domilise's
Johnny's

Muffuletta:

Central Grocery and Deli (closes early)
Cochon Butcher
Frank's Restaurant

Seafood:

Cajun Seafood (N Claiborne)
Capt. Sal's Seafood & Chicken
Clesi's & TRÈO
Bayou Beer Garden
Salvo's Seafood
The Galley Seafood
Jefferson Seafood Shack
Perino's Boiling Pot
Castnet Seafood
Bobby's Seafood
Rocky & Carlo's
Perino's Boiling Pot
Big Fisherman Seafood
Jefferson Seafood Shack
Frankie and Johnny's Restaurant

Restaurants & Other:

Coop's Place
Clover Grill (24 hour diner)
Napoleon House (Pimm’s Cup)
Willie Mae's Scotch House
Dooky Chase’s Restaurant
Bon Ton Café
Jacques-Imo's (Rebirth at Maple Leaf Tuesdays)
Chartres House
Brothers Food Mart (chicken & meat pies)
Taqueria Guerrero
Commander's Palace
Zara's Lil' Giant Supermarket
Atchafalaya
Katie's
Jack Dempsey's Restaurant
Brennan's
Cooter Brown's
Ye Olde College Inn
Eat-Well Food Mart (Yaka mein)
Manchu (Yaka mein)
Gumbo Shop
Bayou Hot Wings
Rampart Food Store
Louisiana Discount Market
Spider's Meat Market
Oak Super Discount
Frenchmen Grocery & Deli
Quarter Grocery & Deli

Museums:TBA

Bands: TBA

Hot Tamales: TBA

BBQ: TBA

Pizza: Don't even try

[Alice]

Whoa! Thanks!

[Alice]

Love Gene's. Wish I had a shrimp po' boy right now

[Alice]

Man this thread is making me wish I was in New Orleans. I got a short list of recommendations from a guy that grew up there and you've mentioned every place he did but one (two if you count the now closed Joe's Cozy Corner). Ever been to Iacovone Kitchen?

[Alice]

[Alice]

[Mals Marola]

Damn, that's quite the list

Tbh, even if you have nothing to go by, if you simply start at Bourbon then just follow whatever sounds are most appealing to you, the place it's coming from will probably let you in for free & you can just take it from there. My friend took me to a place called 30 90 once which was cool if you're looking for a "classy joint"

there was a band playing some kinda funk/jazz experimental shit, they were really good but everyone was fixated on that big fight that happened last year

[Alice]

I want a jazz funeral

[Alice]

Also can't wait to keep a house gecko or two

[Alice]

I tried oysters and alligator for the first time in New Orleans

[Alice]

And how about that WWII museum?

[vixnix]

When I was in New Orleans I couldn’t find any jazz, and I went into a shop to ask. This was in the French quarter, which reeked of horse manure and vomit and was littered with horrible drunk American tourists flashing their breasts at everyone. I said “excuse me, do you know where I could find some jazz being played?” Or something equally nerdy and the shop owner said “what? Uh no. I dunno.”

Hopefully it’s different now. Preservation hall was great but this was 1999 so I don’t know if it’s the same now or not. I loved the city apart from the feckless tourists.

[run2pee]

Lol french quarter sucks stay far away

That ain’t new orleans

[butthurt]

I have recommendations.

Food:
Jonny's on The Spot
Piccadilly Pete's
Marfans

Drink:
Shellfish Allergy Bar
Diabetic Sam's

[vixnix]

Originally Posted by Run To Me

Lol french quarter sucks stay far away

That ain’t new orleans

1999 was pre TripAdvisor. We had no phones. I was 19 and my friend was 22, neither of us had expected to visit New Orleans, but we met a 23 year old Irish guy in a hostel in New York city (it was a condemned brownstone in Harlem, illegally run as a hostel by some Russian woman who employed illegal immigrants from the Czech Republic to do all the maintenance and management, to be precise)

Anyway the Irish guy was like “I’m catching the greyhound to New Orleans, wanna come?” so we just tagged along.

PSA the greyhound journey from New York to New Orleans will cause suicidal ideation

We arrived knowing nothing and followed the noise to the French quarter before realising it was as you say not New Orleans.

We were walking from our hostel into town and this white guy pulled up in his car and said “You shouldn’t be walking around here, it’s not safe.” And like two minutes later a group of black guys walked past us, smoking a joint and offered us a smoke as we crossed paths. I mean how nice is that. Fuck that white guy

I miss those pre internet days sometimes. Nobody had a phone so at the condemned brownstone in Harlem backpackers from all over the world took turns playing guitar and singing songs knowing that their music would disappear into the ether and not be recorded by some asshole on the other side of the room

They were better days

I finally plucked up the courage to take a turn and played Your Ghost by Kristin Hersh because I was all WOE IS ME I AM TOO ART FOR MY OWN GOOD and also because

you know, it’s easy to play.

[MplsTaper]

Originally Posted by Tyler

Man this thread is making me wish I was in New Orleans. I got a short list of recommendations from a guy that grew up there and you've mentioned every place he did but one (two if you count the now closed Joe's Cozy Corner). Ever been to Iacovone Kitchen?

Never been but thank you. Highly recommend the WWII museum. Last time I visited friends I stopped at Guy's on the way to the airport. I had a po' boy for lunch but got a shrimp (no mayo just hot sauce) to go. When I got back to town I knew which neighborhood spot my friend from Baton Rouge would be hanging out in. I handed the shrimp po' boy to him and he was speechless. He insisted that I have half with him and even though it was probably 5 or 6 hours old at the time it was delicious and no one got sick.

[yo soy el mejor]

aw that's sweet.

[FoolofaTook]

not as sweet as you, honey-bunny!

[Mals Marola]

that made me a little sick, friend

[FoolofaTook]

sick with envy at my slick moves?

[Mals Marola]

hopeless!

[FoolofaTook]

no you're not. man up, son. just follow my example and someday you'll have the same skillz.

[Mals Marola]

yeah... now THAT would be mals bottoming out!

[FoolofaTook]

wow. just, like, wow.

this is like the time kimono offered his sharter typology and was turned down by ungreatful retches.

[Mals Marola]

no it's not

in that scenario, i obliged...