If you go eat, get something not too salty so you don't need a big soda.
Also, how do you break a tooth on a nugget? Was there some bone or something in there?
2: The one time I broke a tooth, it was on a pickle. The tooth was just ready to break, and the pickle was at the right place at the right time. I assume it was the same with the nugget.
As the dentists always say, "Laissez les bons temps rouler."
I'm recommend you go to Commander's Palace, the restuarant of both Paul Prudhomme and Emeril Lagasse. I've never been there myself, but it isn't like people who know anything have commented.
Café du Monde is a cliché but recommended.
It's more expensive that I thought. I hadn't looked at the menu before recommending.
Send me an e-mail if you want to, Stanley. I've got a list of recommendations for things to do there.
Also, avoid Commander's Palace. It's not bad, but it's not great.
I'm currently 1,000 miles away and holding.
My experience is many years old, and I have no claim to any culinary expertise but I found New Orleans to be a place where the random place was pretty damn good. Don't bother with Pat O'Briens, and Café du Monde is a good place to wind up in the wee hours.
I'm gently prodding each tooth with an unsharpened pencil to see if any of them is getting ready to break.
the wee hours.
I thought you could just piss in the street whenever?
OT: There are tornadoes in D.C.! WTF?
I like the Maple Leaf, Tipitina's, and Le Bon Temps for live music.
Eat at Cochon and Boucherie. If you want something a little fancier, Herbsaint.
Treme made it trendy, but Kermit Ruffins's band on Thursdays at Vaughan's is amazing, though it's very hot in there (in all senses). Be early to get in; stay late for the rice and beans.
Foods I liked:
Dooky Chase Buffet lunch (cajun, soul)
Franky & Johnny's (gulf crawfish, shrimp, etc.)
Crabby Jack's (po boys)
Those are all reasonably priced. For fancy/expensive/decadent: Lüke (Alsatian brasserie)
If you buy/collect vinyl, Domino Sound Records is awesome.
Treme made it trendy, but Kermit Ruffins's band on Thursdays at Vaughan's is amazing, though it's very hot in there (in all senses). Be early to get in; stay late for the rice and beans.
Foods I liked:
Dooky Chase Buffet lunch (cajun, soul)
Franky & Johnny's (gulf crawfish, shrimp, etc.)
Crabby Jack's (po boys)
Those are all reasonably priced. For fancy/expensive/decadent: Lüke (Alsatian brasserie)
If you buy/collect vinyl, Domino Sound Records is awesome.
Hey, I was just there. Super enthusiastically second the recs for Boucherie and Herbsaint. Didn't go to Cochon. Tipitina's is great, but IM limited E (it was JazzFest) you could just go to Frenchmen street and walk into places with amazing music. WWOZ has a music calendar. What a wonderful place.
New Orleans is the best!
1. The Green Goddess for food - in the Quarter but not Bourbon Streety by a long shot. Vegetarian-friendly.
2. The Hi Ho and Allways Lounge for music - both on St. Claude near Frenchman Street. Hi Ho has a great brass band (forget the name) on Wednesdays or Thursdays.
3. Cake Cafe - coffee and food - the Marigny (or the Bywater, the distinction eludes me.)
4. Satusuma - ditto - although food is a little healthier.
5. The Orange Couch and Sound Cafe - coffee shops in the same area - Sound Cafe has the benefit of Beth's Books, a charming 2nd hand bookstore w/ some NOLA-specific shelves.
6. Candlelight Lounge, Wednesday nights, Treme brass band. Do it.
7. If Shamarr Allen is playing, go see him.
8. Mimi's in the Marigny and Lost Love Lounge - within a couple blocks of each other in the Bywater/Marigny, both excellent.
9. A drink at Tujague's bar - not the restaurant, but the bar entrance one door to the right - near Cafe du Monde (also excellent!)
10. Domenica (great pizza) or happy hour 25 cent oysters at Luke (pretty much any John Besh restaurant is worth trying, although that's more due to the chefs who do the day to day work than to his eminence.)
11. The Farmers' Markets can be a nice change of pace/thing to check out - blueberries are in season - and if Chilton County peaches are there, they're just splendid.
12. NOMA has some pretty decent standing collections (including some great vanitas paintings) and has been doing some good stuff the past couple years with modern art. And the City Park setting is nice for a ramble, atlhough it may be scorching.
13. The McKenna (in the Garden District) is a nice little museum, atlhough their opening hours can be unpredictable.
14. Just do it and get a 'daiquiri' - the best places are on St. Charles near Terpischore and at Washington and Claiborne.
I could go on, but I'll restrain myself. And even if you don't do any of this New Orleans will still be magnificent - enjoy!
Ok I lied one more comment - Kermit Ruffins is indeed amazing - he has a Tuesday gig at Bullets on AP Tureaud which is a little less crammed than Vaughan's, although Vaughan's is still great (and for that matter so is Bacchanal, wine and great food and outdoor seating and music near Vaughan's) - and I believe he's opened his own place somewhere in the Treme that would be worth checking out.
They are totally cheesy but the ghost tours of the FQ are a good time. The guide somehow manages to avoid-- I couldn't tell whether it was on purpose-- that all the 18th and 19th century ghosts are (were?) black and their deaths are a direct result of slavery.
Also totally cheesy: mint juleps on the porch or in the bar of the Columns Hotel (take the St. Charles trolley towards the Garden District).
Slim Goodies (on Magazine, nearish to Tulane) is a good place for brunch, and it may even have some veg-friendly options.
I haven't been to New Orleans since I was 17, but the guy who runs Gumbo Pages has restaurant and cocktail bars recommendations lists.
If you're going to New Orleans...
You oughta get a Prof. Longhair song stuck in your head.
These are all great suggestions. Thanks! I'm waiting to board presently and will report back.
NOMA has some pretty decent standing collections (including some great vanitas paintings)
The institution where I work had Giovanni Martinelli's Death Comes to the Banquet Table back in 2005. When Katrina hit, we agreed to store it until NOMA was in a position to safely take it back. For months I would walk into the dimly lit room where it was held and see it up against the wall and would get very angry and sad.
The Historic New Orleans Collection has some interesting things and does good work. Don't know what they have going on now.
On a different note, since this seems to be the thread for recommendations: I will be in London soon for work but having a fair amount of free time in the four days or so that I'm there. I need to make a trip down to Dulwich which will take a good portion of one day, and another day will be spent at the National Gallery. I've no lack of ideas of how to spend the rest of my time, but I am wondering if anyone has any advice or recommendations for places to eat, especially of the casual type. I will be traveling alone and live in jeans, so avoiding awkwardness is something of a concern. I'll be staying right in central London, but any ideas for lunch or dinner in Dulwich would be appreciated as well. I'm not adverse to exploring out of the way places, though my day plans mean I'll probably be rather tired by evening.