Wednesday, July 05, 2006

New Orleans recap

The specs of my weekend trip:

Hotel - W French Quarter

Saturday:
lunch - fried shrimp po boy at Joey K's on Magazine St.
dinner - Dick and Jenny's Uptown (fried green tomatoes topped with crawfish and crabmeat, pain perdue with duck, brie and apples, and fried oysters with remoulade)
drinks - on the expansive front porch at the Columns Hotel, a St. Charles Ave. mansion

Sunday:
breakfast - cafe au lait and beignets at Cafe du Monde in the Quarter
lunch - the New Orleans roll with crawfish at Sake Cafe on Magazine St.
dinner/drinks - hamburgers, very potent monsoon drinks and live jazz by the Chad Fisher Group at Snug Harbor

Monday:
breakfast - Li'l Dizzy's Cafe on Esplanade Ave., just outside the Quarter
lunch - red beans and rice with sausage and a Pimm's Cup at Napoleon House in the Quarter

Retail friends:
Clothing - Trashy Diva and The Red Carpet
T-shirts - MetroThree on Magazine St.
Jewelry - Oonkas Boonkas on Chartres St. in the Quarter
Art - Casell Art Gallery on Royal St. in the Quarter

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