I'm going to the quarter tomorrow, What should I have for lunch?

[BOSSHOG]

- Cheeseburger in Paradise at Margaritaville
- Fried Chicken at Fiorella's
- Blackened Shrimp Po-Boy from the Alpine
- Muffaletta from Central Grocery
- Baked or Fried oysters from somewhere
- Veggie Pizza at Louisiana Pizza Kitchen
- Anything on the menu at Coop's

Decisions, Decisions.

[MissMillie]

1. one of each

:shrug:

[MrCoffee]

2. like you even have to ask...CENTRAL GROCERY

and pick me up a halfa muff while you're there.

:party:time!

[BOSSHOG]

4. Actually my Wife and I have taste tested

and we prefer Franks Muffaletta's which is a few doors down from Central's. Although Central's is better known and has a neat little store to go with their food.

[tk2kewl]

3. suck the juice out of the heads of some crawfish

[BOSSHOG]

6. Maybe a fried crawfish poboy dressed with a large order of fries

[Nicole]

5. Po-Boy n/t

[MorningGlow]

7. Don't forget dessert

I love the creme brulee at the Alpine, crystallized with a blowtorch in the kitchen hallway by the guy in the baggy shorts--looks like Uncle Fester. (After mounds and mounds of crawfish for an "entree" of course.) Can't go wrong!

[BOSSHOG]

8. I believe he is still there

and ain't that a great little place to enjoy a meal? My dessert is always the same. An ice cold bud draft at the Tropical Isle on Bourbon.

[MorningGlow]

9. Sooo good to know!

Thanks for the update! Ever since Katrina, I've been fretting not so much about the Quarter, but about the "real folk"--the N.O. residents we knew from them working there. We sure miss Uncle Fester!

We used to go to the Alpine every year (often more than once in a visit). Some of our fondest memories...the biker-chick waitress who asked "Whachoo wawnt, baybays?"...our first brave moment of ordering our own crawfish (without a N.O. native to "guide" us)...and the drought several years back, when we kept circling the area, checking for the hand-scrawled "Crawfish Today" sign on the door and not seeing it, but then spotting the owner walking up the sidewalk with a huge cardboard box lined with plastic. Sure enough, there was crawfish in there! We followed him in the door and finally got some! :rofl:

[BOSSHOG]

10. I recall the first time my wife and I had crawfish

It was a get together at a coworkers home in April 1989. We got tutoring from the locals but it took us hours to eat just a few. Not because we didn't like em, but we had a heck of a time getting to the meat. My wife can whip that meat out blindfolded now. Alpine has an incredibly delicious Blackened Shrimp Po-Boy, oh my. Real moist and tasty. We say we want to eat in every restaurant in New Orleans but I think that is almost impossible. We do have our favorites and Alpine is one of them. Great location too, kinda off the beaten trail but still close to all the debauchery.

[MorningGlow]

11. Speaking of off the beaten track

Do you ever go used-book shopping? There was a little place on Dauphine near St. Louis we always went to--tiny and dark and overloaded with books, just the way a used bookshop should be. Had a great old mangy kittycat named Boudreaux who would never let you shop for books--always brought over his nasty feather toy and demanded you play with him instead. After Katrina hit, I worried about Boudreaux.

Anyway, if you do go there, could you check on Boudreaux for me? I would love some reassurance that he's okay. :hi:

[BOSSHOG]

12. My pleasure

There are several old bookstores in the corner with absolutely no rhyme or reason to stacking the books. The fanciest of them all is probably Faulkner books where William Faulkner once lived and wrote in Pirate's Alley near the Cathedral. They have the audacity to sell new books. A Cat in a bookstore. What a wonderful idea.

[MorningGlow]

14. That would be so great--thx!

I love Pirates Alley as well--I forget the name of the bar on the corner near Faulkner Books...but that's also one of my favorite places to hang out and drink overpriced wine. Such a quiet enclave, yet so close to the insanity of the square. And a great place to watch cats too--the strays in the garden behind the cathedral--and someone is so kind as to leave cat food and fresh water for them, right by the wrought-iron fence.

The last year that DH went to N.O. and I was home with our newborn, he called me while sitting at a table outside the bar, where the chair legs rock on the uneven cobbles, and I nearly divorced him, I was so jealous! :)

[KitchenWitch]

13. If I had to choose only one

I would go with the Po-Boy, and wash it down with some beignets. :7