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Above: Café Du Monde. Opposite page: The Commander’s Palace restaurant.
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restaurant wonderfully frozen in time. Locals and tourists lunch for hours, sipping martinis and eating old Creole dishes. Go early, they don’t take reservations. For dinner, it is hard to beat Commander’s Palace, the grand dame of New Orleans restaurants for service, quality, and atmosphere. Ask to sit in the main dining room. But there are countless hidden gems in New Orleans. Uptown on Magazine Street, Lilette, La Petite Grocery, and Vizard’s are three of my favorites for sophisticated dining without
ible restaurants in the city, but I can think of few places that aren’t chains that are open all the time except The Camellia Grill and Café Du Monde, both institutions that are worth your time despite the crowds. For very late nights, go to Port of Call on Esplanade to eat a giant hamburger and it just might ease you through the next morning. There are lots of fancy places to get brunch, but I love The Ruby Slipper Cafe, which is very representative of some of the newer energy fueling our restaurant scene. If you want a bakery, hit up Maple Street Patisserie in the Carrollton/University area. Go to Liuzza’s on Bienville in Mid City for a roast beef poor boy sandwich and an ice-cold schooner of draft Abita Amber, then walk a little bit of it off by
going around the corner to Angelo Brocato’s for the most incredible gelato on the planet. Liuzza’s only takes cash but has been there since the 1940s. Brocato’s started in the French Quarter in 1906 and is still run by the family. My favorite “nice” dinner places are the smaller Uptown establishments like Patois Restaurant or Martinique Bistro, which, if the weather is cooperative, has one of the most heavenly dining courtyards. If you are in the Carrollton area, go to Boucherie and have brilliant bistro dining on a budget. People also forget how Italian New Orleans is, and for some truly incredible “Creole Italian,” go to Eleven 79, run by Joe Segreto. Gentlemen should consider bringing a sport coat on this trip. Dress codes aren’t what they used to be, but people here appreciate dressing right for dinner more so than other cities.
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