It was SOOOOO fucking fresh and delicious. Citrus oil, hibiscus flowers, ate it before I could take a pic.Blue crab risotto sounds amazing.
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It was SOOOOO fucking fresh and delicious. Citrus oil, hibiscus flowers, ate it before I could take a pic.Blue crab risotto sounds amazing.
Be aware too that a lot of NOLA restaurants will be more of a Creole flavor. These days there’s not much difference, but it’s there. Like they use tomatoes in their gumbo over there and that shit will get you shanked over in my area lol. I’m from the area the Acadians(Cajuns) settled, whereas NOLA was a melting pot of French, Spanish, etc.It was SOOOOO fucking fresh and delicious. Citrus oil, hibiscus flowers, ate it before I could take a pic.
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Yeah, I don’t blame you for eating before taking a picture. If I ever go to NOLA, I’ll have to go get that.It was SOOOOO fucking fresh and delicious. Citrus oil, hibiscus flowers, ate it before I could take a pic.
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There’s random attacks on people with zero motive, which is why a lot of people are sketched out.good ol' fashioned gully-washer today. Went to the WWII museum, good stuff if you're in to WWII or World History. Decided to go grab lunch, but got dumped on half way. Ducked under some construction and shot the shit with a bunch of AA/Hispanic construction workers. None of them were from NO, all moved there after Katrina and had been working construction ever since. I guess the one guy's wife was from Louisiana, but they were in Detroit and moved here for work.
I felt the wind change and thought I could make it to the lunch spot, so I dipped. But I was very very wrong. It came torrential, I got soaked. I ducked under cover at Ugly Dog Saloon, they had some canopies set up for outside catering. The rain really started picking up, flooding the street, so I stepped up by the door. Lady in front of me asks if I'm background. "No, I'm 'get out of the rain'." She said they were shooting and she thought she recognized me as someone from "Background" - these are the people that walk around in the background on the street in movies, as she informed me. Apparently, they're shooting a Russell Crowe movie called "Unhinged" about a 'road rage gone wrong'. The restaurant is closed, they're catering the movie. Then she asks me what I'm doing this afternoon - "Not much, grab some lunch." She says "you should come hang out and be background". I just kind of laughed and told her that 'not much is still more than that'.
I was there for about half hour, then it lightened up just a bit and I said screw it and darted for lunch on the other side of the small creek that used to be a street. No way to the door that wasn't walking through 6" of water, but I was already pretty wet. And a perk of AirBnB is that I get a dryer in the apartment. Good grub at Cochon Butcher. The service sucked but the manager offered to buy my lunch. Brought me a bunch of extra stuff, totally turned it around. Even though he comped me the meal, I put nice tip in the jar.
Some things haven't changed, the areas off Bourbon street seem less sketchy. But the bums are less "hustling street people" and more "addiction/mental health beggars". Used to be that you couldn't walk a city block without someone trying to strike up a conversation and sell you their rap CD or a cheap necklace or tell you a joke for a couple bucks. Now it's just guys standing on the corner with "need money" signs. Did see one dude pushing around 2 pitbulls in a wheelchair (the dogs in the chair) and he had a sign about "USMC - can't work because PTSD" and then the word 'dysfunctional' in quotes. So I guess scaring the tourists will still get you some bucks in the Quarter. One hobo did strike up a conversation with me and hit me up for cash or food, so I gave him a beignet.
It's still New Orleans.
Hobos or Yutes?There’s random attacks on people with zero motive, which is why a lot of people are sketched out.
Yes, but you usually find it on the shrimp po’boy
catfish po'boy? that sounds great.
Done right, it's the king of po' boys (IMAO)catfish po'boy? that sounds great.
It was a couple miles east, other side of French Quarter.@Filthy were you anywhere near the syrup leak?
I just hope you googled the pronunciation lol
Not my first rodeo, cowboy.I just hope you googled the pronunciation lol