Dining in New Orleans

Last night's dinner was at a place called Louisiana Bistro on Dauphine Street just a few blocks from our hotel. Turned out to be another hit recommendation from our concierge who also was a miracle worker securing us a table for 5 at 7:00pm - right in the middle of prime dinner time in New Orleans at the height of two conferences that are in town. Excellent food. Most of it was seafood, of which I did not partake, but I had their pork chops which was served with jalepeno bread pudding and a spicey creole hollandaise sauce (yes - I said creole hollandaise sauce) and mixed veggies. Very scrumptious. Followed by white chocolate bread putting for dessert. Yum-my.

Today between meetings we had lunch at a place called "Mother's" on Poydras Street (established 60 years ago serving Po' Boys to dock workers) where I had me a nice Roast Beef Po'Boy with creole mustard and shredded cabbage (hold the pickles and the mayo). Atmosphere was great as was the food. For those of you in Seattle, think "Dixie's" in terms of atmosphere and service but with all the traditional New Orleans and Louisiana fare instead of BBQ - Po' Boys (with just about anything in between those two halves of french bread), red beans and rice, bread pudding, and seafood galore.

Sometime tonight I need to hit Cafe du Monde, the original French Market Coffee stand established in 1862 for a beignet fix before heading out of town tomorrow morning. I'll be skipping on the chicory coffee though - no caffeine for me.

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