going to be in New Orleans

the butcher

I've notice a lot of people posting on this are from the New Orleans area.  I'm coming in next week to see the LSU/MISS game and then the Saints/Falcons.  Any suggestions where to go for good bbq or local fare.  We are staying around the french quarter.  

Thanks

nolaegghead

Sadly, not many BBQ places around here, but no shortages of excellent restaurants.

http://www.squeal-nola.com/

http://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1143909/places-to-eat-in-nola/p1

Parallel

I made this list for a SWCC reunion that we had here in New Orleans last year. PM me and we'll see if we can meet up at some point.

http://screencast.com/t/COXAzVGW

the butcher

thanks all.  ended up hitting Mr. B's  in the french quarter  and  mothers for brunch.  The rest was food around the stadium at LSU and at the great Saints football game.  Think I may have had a few too many hurricanes somewhere in between that.  

nolaegghead

Hope you had a good time. The big easy seems to grant you a really good time, or a really bad time (like that one mardi gras I had back in '96).  Lesson learned.

travisstrick

nolaegghead said:

Hope you had a good time. The big easy seems to grant you a really good time, or a really bad time (like that one mardi gras I had back in '96).  Lesson learned.

I was there in 96. I was 16 with a fake ID and a redhead girlfriend who drove a Mustang 5.0. I cant believe I am still alive. 

nolaegghead

I woke up at Tulane and Broad.  Probably worked out better than finding the truck and driving home.  Don't get thrown out of a bar on mardi gras morning on Bourbon st.  Had a few mardi gras before that where I wondered the same thing Travis did.  But pure fun.  Until it wasn't.  But it still was.

nolaegghead

...and don't piss me off if you're a 19 year old frat boy from Tulane.  He ended up in the same place.

travisstrick

nolaegghead said:

...and don't piss me off if you're a 19 year old frat boy from Tulane.  He ended up in the same place.

I was 6'1" and about 200 at 16. I never really pissed many people off. I was pretty easy going. 

ericp

Dragos for oysters is ecxellent

nolaegghead

travisstrick said:

nolaegghead said:

...and don't piss me off if you're a 19 year old frat boy from Tulane.  He ended up in the same place.

I was 6'1" and about 200 at 16. I never really pissed many people off. I was pretty easy going. 

That's about what I'm at now.  When I was 16, I was about 6' 155.  This was years later and we were both drunk trolls ready to be idiots.  I was being a smartass.  Usually I'm super mellow when saturated with hand grenades.