The Mahalia Jackson Theater does not play around with photo-taking so I wasn't able to sneak pics. Seriously, those ushers have hawk eyes. People were getting busted left and right. Thanks to Google I found photos of the same cast performing who knows where.
Neither D nor I have ever spent more than a day in New Orleans so we decided it'd be fun to stay. We booked a hotel for a couple nights and had a blast traipsing through the French Quarter. Except my feet didn't appreciate the traipsing one bit. I ended up with several huge blisters.
Is there such a thing as bad food in New Orleans? If so we didn't come across it. Everything we ate was sensational, including the room service. It seems crazy to order room service with all the amazing food around—and it is everywhere—but we heard that the room service at our hotel was good and wanted to try it out. We weren't sorry.
On Wednesday, before the show, I ordered up a muffuletta (or muffaletta), a sandwich that originated in New Orleans. It was a bit on the greasy side, but still very good. I'm not much of a french fry connoisseur—usually I can take them or leave them—but I think I enjoyed those even more than the sandwich!
D had a burger that was also very good, but I didn't manage to get a photo before he inhaled it.
For breakfast on Thursday we went with room service again. D ordered the best waffles I've ever tasted. They were so thick and fluffy. Amazing!
I ordered a bread and pastry basket. Sadly it was half gone before I thought to take a photo. It was excellent as well.
For lunch we ended up at Corner Oyster House, a little sports bar in Jackson Square.
I had a sampler of gumbo (in the bowl), shrimp creole, jambalaya, and red beans. They were all delicious, but my favorites were the red beans and the gumbo. I normally don't order such heavy fare, but when in Rome! D got red beans and rice with sausage. The sausage almost melted in your mouth it was so moist.
My sampler came with bread pudding. Best I've ever had, hands down. Perfect amount of sweetness.
For dinner we ate, once again, in Jackson Square. Really, we weren't too lazy to venture beyond. We walked from one end of the quarter to the other and nearly tried several places far outside the square. It's just that D isn't very adventurous with food and most of the recommended restaurants were too sophisticated for his liking. The restaurants in the square seemed safe.
We landed on Stanley and we're both so glad that we did!
It's a bit like an old-fashioned diner, but with a modern twist. A beautiful place. I tried taking photos, but they didn't do the place any justice at all. Check out their website for some gorgeous pictures.
D and I couldn't decide between 2 sandwiches so we ordered both and split them. The first (on the left) was a chicken, ham, and bacon club with a spicy pesto dressing. The other (on the right) was a turkey croissant sandwich with basil mayo, cornbread stuffing, and cranberry relish. The latter was, hands down, my favorite thing of the entire trip. I plan on making a bee-line straight to Stanley next time I'm in New Orleans so I can have that turkey croissant again. As well as the sweet potato fries. Like the bread pudding, also the best I've ever had!
D and I don't often order dessert, but when we saw that they served malts we really had no choice. Easily one of the best malts ever. Are you sensing a theme here where it comes to New Orleans food?
I couldn't resist the homemade ice cream so I got a couple scoops of blueberry cheesecake. Probably not as tasty as the malt, but still delish.
My only disappointment food-wise was that we didn't make it to Café du Monde for beignets. We'd planned on it, but couldn't figure out how to fit it in between the other meals and it was packed each time we passed by.
A+ to New Orleans cuisine!
P.S. Sorry for the mostly blurry pictures. I didn't want to haul out the big camera for food photos so I stuck with the phone.
4 comments:
Wow you little foodie! Sounds like a great time. So, when I'm there we go to Stanley's then the Cafe! Sounds like a great time. I'm so glad you enjoyed Lion King too. I pick and choose my musicals but you can never go wrong with Sound of Music or Billy Elliot either. I'm so jealous of your little adventure, I'm so dragging you back while I'm there! Good waffles rock as do fab fries!
Sounds like a plan!
It would have been nice to be adventurous, everything we ate was typical Louisiana food, nothing new, but I didn't care because it was all so darn good!
It's funny; I've never had an interest in seeing The Sound of Music musical. Not sure why. I LOVE the movie. Maybe because nothing can top Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. I do kind of want to see Mary Poppins though. My favs are Lion King, Wicked, Les Mis, and Phantom. I can see those again and again.
I hope wicked comes back here--I'd love to see it. We think Billy Elliot might still be in London when we go we will try to make it if it is. ITA about Sound of Music and I have hated one of them (Maria had Brown hair and looked younger than the oldest kid) Then we bought tix for her understudy (we had won our set) and thank goodness we gave it another shot because it rocked. It depends on the night I guess:-) Apparently, one of the Billy Elliots was Chinese. Honestly? I wouldn't have gone. It's not discrimination, IMO, it's common sense. Maria didn't have brown hair, and Billy wasn't Chinese. 'nuf said!:-)
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