Author Topic: Need NOLA . . . (Read 4263 times)

sonofdaxjones · « **on:** March 21, 2012, 01:39:43 PM »

suggestions.

Have been there twice, but once was a long time ago, and the other was for a corporate event during the free welding spending days of now defunct telecom equipment providers who were footing a huge chunk of the bill.

pissclams · « **Reply #1 on:** March 21, 2012, 01:43:34 PM »

crap town. best advice i can give is to avoid it all together.

Paul Moscow · « **Reply #2 on:** March 21, 2012, 01:44:18 PM »

Check out Frenchman Street to sample music outside the Quarter. It's a bit bohemian but definitely quieter than the quarter and within walking distance. Great small venues, bars, bookstores, coffee shops, etc. Doesn't smell like barf and breast milk.

420seriouscat69 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 21, 2012, 01:44:51 PM »

I go once a year. Don't spend all of your time on bourbon st. Rent a car and drive around. Hit up magazine st about 6 miles up the road. It's a really cool and trendy street. I like the aquarium there and I also like taking the boat up the river.

steve dave · « **Reply #4 on:** March 21, 2012, 01:46:29 PM »

meet up with WRFF and make him show you around (my plan if I ever go)

sonofdaxjones · « **Reply #5 on:** March 21, 2012, 01:51:14 PM »

Quote from: pissclams on March 21, 2012, 01:43:34 PM

crap town. best advice i can give is to avoid it all together.

I'm not paying for anything besides my food, booze and ground transportation.

Dr Rick Daris · « **Reply #6 on:** March 21, 2012, 01:53:47 PM »

Quote from: sonofdaxjones on March 21, 2012, 01:51:14 PM

Quote from: pissclams on March 21, 2012, 01:43:34 PM
crap town. best advice i can give is to avoid it all together.

I'm not paying for anything besides my food, booze and ground transportation.

the credit card thread strikes again

CNS · « **Reply #7 on:** March 21, 2012, 01:54:01 PM »

I am going this year too and don't want to rent a car. How is the public trans?

420seriouscat69 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 21, 2012, 01:58:27 PM »

Quote from: CNS Casey on March 21, 2012, 01:54:01 PM

I am going this year too and don't want to rent a car. How is the public trans?

It's like only $2 one way on that train thing. Real cheap. Everything is close too.

SkinnyBenny · « **Reply #9 on:** April 25, 2012, 04:55:39 PM »

The streetcar is adorbs but won't take you everywhere. Refusing to rent a car is actually a pretty good idea, because most hotels charge like an extra $30-$35 a day on parking alone, so it's often cheaper to just cab it.

CNS · « **Reply #10 on:** April 25, 2012, 05:09:05 PM »

Quote from: SkinnyBenny on April 25, 2012, 04:55:39 PM

The streetcar is adorbs but won't take you everywhere. Refusing to rent a car is actually a pretty good idea, because most hotels charge like an extra $30-$35 a day on parking alone, so it's often cheaper to just cab it.

Yeah, we are staying here:

and hoping it isn't a big deal to walk most everywhere(safety wise).

SkinnyBenny · « **Reply #11 on:** April 25, 2012, 05:43:10 PM »

Quote from: CNS Casey on April 25, 2012, 05:09:05 PM

Quote from: SkinnyBenny on April 25, 2012, 04:55:39 PM
The streetcar is adorbs but won't take you everywhere. Refusing to rent a car is actually a pretty good idea, because most hotels charge like an extra $30-$35 a day on parking alone, so it's often cheaper to just cab it.

Yeah, we are staying here:

and hoping it isn't a big deal to walk most everywhere(safety wise).

Yeah you should be within walking distance to most stuff in The French Quarter and on Frenchman St., and you're not super far from streetcar access, I don't think.

DON'T spend all your time in the French Quarter. Go the the WWII museum like a boss. It is incredible. Eat at Jacque Imo's (worth the cab ride and the $30 entrees). When you go there, get the alligator cheesecake. Holy eff. It's amazing. Mother's Restaurant (nearer to the Superdome on Poydras) is also pretty solid and a bit cheaper. Oh and the Camellia Grill is also amazing.

CNS · « **Reply #12 on:** April 25, 2012, 06:49:13 PM »

Thanks.

We are going on a airboat swamp tour and a walking/drunken ghoast tour. Haven't lined anything else out yet. Planning on hitting one or two of the restraunts that made it on Diners Drive ins and Dives and I am sure the wife will want to do some shopping. Have done the french market thing so we won't be wasting half a day there...

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SkinnyBenny · « **Reply #13 on:** April 25, 2012, 06:54:54 PM »

She'll want to go shopping on Magazine St. Go down there with her and do other stuff. It's amaze-balls. What two restaurants were on D, D-Is, & Ds? I don't know what they are, but take my food recommendations before anything else. Jacque-Imo's is probably the best meal I've ever had.

*Edit: Dick & Jenny's on Tchopatoulas St. is really good too, but also a little pricy. Should be no problem for a

though.

CNS · « **Reply #14 on:** April 25, 2012, 07:15:06 PM »

Quote from: SkinnyBenny on April 25, 2012, 06:54:54 PM

She'll want to go shopping on Magazine St. Go down there with her and do other stuff. It's amaze-balls. What two restaurants were on D, D-Is, & Ds? I don't know what they are, but take my food recommendations before anything else. Jacque-Imo's is probably the best meal I've ever had.

*Edit: Dick & Jenny's on Tchopatoulas St. is really good too, but also a little pricy. Should be no problem for a though.

Have heard good things about Jacque adn D&J's. Will def hit. Not sure what the names of the TripleD ones were. I need to go back and find them again. Just something we saw this winter and wanted to try.

Any touristy things to keep away from?

AppleJack · « **Reply #15 on:** April 25, 2012, 07:43:58 PM »

Willie Mae's Scotch House

Touristy but the Muffaletta at the Central Grocery is out of sight.

SkinnyBenny · « **Reply #16 on:** April 25, 2012, 08:06:35 PM »

Quote from: CNS Casey on April 25, 2012, 07:15:06 PM

Quote from: SkinnyBenny on April 25, 2012, 06:54:54 PM
She'll want to go shopping on Magazine St. Go down there with her and do other stuff. It's amaze-balls. What two restaurants were on D, D-Is, & Ds? I don't know what they are, but take my food recommendations before anything else. Jacque-Imo's is probably the best meal I've ever had.

*Edit: Dick & Jenny's on Tchopatoulas St. is really good too, but also a little pricy. Should be no problem for a though.

Have heard good things about Jacque adn D&J's. Will def hit. Not sure what the names of the TripleD ones were. I need to go back and find them again. Just something we saw this winter and wanted to try.

Any touristy things to keep away from?

I mean I guess Bourbon is as touristy as it gets, but you know what? eff it! It's fun. Get shitfaced one night and meet a bunch of weirdos down there if you haven't before. Cafe du Monde is touristy too I guess, but it's also good and fun, so....eff it. Go if you haven't before.

Trim · « **Reply #17 on:** April 25, 2012, 09:51:34 PM »

Bangkok Health Spa.

Daddy Claxton · « **Reply #18 on:** April 26, 2012, 02:32:31 PM »

Every day in New Orleans must start with a café latte and an order of beignets at Café du Monde. Touristy or not, it’s mandatory.

For lunch, Mother’s is great if you’ve never been, or get a po boy at Verti Marte. If it’s Friday, go to Gallatoire’s; get there early and cancel the rest of your day.

Go to Cochon for a sazerac at cocktail time, and the food’s not bad, so stay for dinner. If you aren’t near Cochon for cocktails, go to the bar at Arnaud’s and hope you get the autistic bar tender. Tell him to suggest a cocktail, and after he freaks out a little, he will do you right. Food is okay there, too, or walk to Antoine’s for the oysters Rockefeller. But there are a ton of great places to eat all over. If you aren’t eating well in NO, you are doing yourself a grave disservice.

If you need to kill some time, go to Aiden Gill for Men and/or Style Lab for Men, then have a drink at the Columns Hotel.

SkinnyBenny · « **Reply #19 on:** April 26, 2012, 02:36:15 PM »

Quote from: Daddy Claxton on April 26, 2012, 02:32:31 PM

Every day in New Orleans must start with a café latte and an order of beignets at Café du Monde. Touristy or not, it’s mandatory.

No, denied. Once is enough. Anything more on a finite vacation is a waste of valuable NOLA time, especially when you could be on Magazine St. eating a dope-ass breakfast at Slim Goodie's instead.

CNS · « **Reply #20 on:** April 26, 2012, 02:44:36 PM »

Quote from: SkinnyBenny on April 26, 2012, 02:36:15 PM

Quote from: Daddy Claxton on April 26, 2012, 02:32:31 PM
Every day in New Orleans must start with a café latte and an order of beignets at Café du Monde. Touristy or not, it’s mandatory.

No, denied. Once is enough. Anything more on a finite vacation is a waste of valuable NOLA time, especially when you could be on Magazine St. eating a dope-ass breakfast at Slim Goodie's instead.

This is what I'm looking for. Been to NOLA before, but not as anything older than a late teenager. Been to du Monde before. Beignets are legit, but also remember that you can get them elsewhere. This vacation is a mission to find the dope-ass.

I welcome all that fits that category.

Also, gonna be there for a long weekend(in early Fri, out mid Mon), if that is worth anything.

SkinnyBenny · « **Reply #21 on:** April 26, 2012, 02:49:47 PM »

F'real. The WWII museum is incredible if you care even a little bit about history. There's this, like, 4D movie production thingy in the Victory Theater across the street that is totally worth the extra hour and nine bucks. It's produced by Tom Hanks or something. Get there and wait in the hall about 15-20 minutes before showtime to get a good seat. For real. Worth it.

Also, there's a street that intersects St. Charles called Peniston. Go stand by the street sign and giggle a bunch at a street name that has penis in it. This is where I randomly bumped into Weird Robert's Foam Finger one time. We sniffed out the goEMAW on each other and shook hands and verbally BBS'd on the street while our ladies got bored. It was nice.

CNS · « **Reply #22 on:** April 26, 2012, 02:59:36 PM »

Yeah, I am gonna try to talk the wife into the WWII thing. I love that crap but will probs have to trade out the rest of that day to get her to go along.

SkinnyBenny · « **Reply #23 on:** April 26, 2012, 03:15:37 PM »

Or just tell her to go shopping then. The WWII museum and Magazine aren't all that far apart from each other.

Or just tell her you'll take her to get a dessert delicacy from Sucre (on Magazine) as a reward for coming along with you. (You should do this anyway, FWIW.)

pissclams · « **Reply #24 on:** April 26, 2012, 03:19:54 PM »

this just could be the makings of a good ol' fashioned NOLA-OFF that goEMAW has been dreadfully needing for years.

in one corner, former kstatefans-ite, skinnybenny, in the other corner, the cub known as claxton.