

All in all we managed to experience over 90 different restaurants during our time in the Big Easy, an incredible 80 of which we considered worthy of sharing here with you, our readers. In fine cafes and bistros throughout the city, we feasted upon nearly every fruit of the Gulf of Mexico, including redfish, catfish, crawfish, flounder, crab, shrimp, scallops, mussels and calimari but we also made a point, in the spirit of adventure, to occasionally eschew New Orleans’ firmly established seafood traditions, delighting in a number of decadent pork preparations, a combined dozen unique cuts of ribeye, New York strip and filet mignon, a variety of pastas, a few servings of lamb, duck, escargot and foie gras here and there, and on one of our most daring outings, an exotic roasted beef bone marrow dish.

Thai locations with vegetable heavy dishes. seedNOLA makes a vegan poboy (selection of eggplant or tofu and chickpea), crispy nuggets, and recent pressed juices. We scarfed down hot dogs in Marigny, devoured hamburgers in Jefferson, inhaled pizza in West Riverside, and paradoxically, gorged on Mexican in Irish Channel. Meals adventures in New Orleans Well-known for crawfish boil and gumbo, NOLA has loads of veg choices. Our gastronomic explorations within the Crescent City went far beyond the limits of the French Quarter, however, as we took in extravagant dining experiences in nearly 20 different neighborhoods. From December 2014 until May of 2015 we here at I♥DM enjoyed the gluttonous privilege of living and working in the heart of downtown New Orleans, only a single block from the world-famous French Quarter, where one faces nothing less than a full-scale daily onslaught of countless aromatic enticements on nearly every stroll down its legendary streets. Topped with a variety of sauces (curry, BBQ shrimp. No metropolis in America boasts a cuisine and dining tradition so outrageously indulgent and so deeply intertwined with the daily life of its residents as that of the great city of New Orleans, Louisiana. This French Quarter hot dog joint is known for its New Orleans-style hot dog, a seven-inch, quarter-pound frank loaded with red beans and rice.
