If you don't want to leave town then follow the advice of a previous posting that suggested St Charles. Lots of small, quality restaurants along that street. Plus you can take a streetcar to get there from most major hotels.

This is great weather for NOLA.

B

Worked in New Orleans for a week, our producer took us to some very nice restaurants . I especially recommend "Jacques-Imo's cafe"; 8324 Oak st., the food is outstanding and affordable! And for the best burger you will ever have go to "Port of Call"; 838 Esplanade Ave. Both are very casual restaurants with great food. And next door of Jacques is "the Maple Leaf" a great bar with good music.

Have fun, great city!

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"Maple Leaf"! There are some stories in that place. whao!

B

Subject: LITTLE NEW ORLEANS HISTORY

Ya'll try this test. I'ts harder than you might think.

1. Who was 'Satchmo'?
A) Louie Prima
B) Al Hirt
C) Louie Armstrong
D) Professor Longhair

2. Which two breweries used to be in the French Quarter?
A) Regal and Jax
B) Dixie and Falstaff
C) Falstaff and Regal
D) Jax and Dixie

3. What road was built over the old New Basin Canal?
A) Canal Boulevard
B) Robert E. Lee
C) Basin Street
D) Pontchartrain Expressway

4. What was the 'Zephyr'?
A) A roller coaster
B) The New Year's baby
C) A Bourbon Street Bar
D) A cocktail

5. Who was the Spirit of Christmas in New Orleans besides Santa Claus?
A) St. Nick
B) Papa Noel
C) Mr. Bingle
D) King Creole

6. Where is Marie Laveau buried?
A) Metairie Cemetery
B) St. Louis #1
C) St. Louis #2
D) Carrollton Cemetery

7. What was at 1825 Tulane?
A) a brewery
B) a furniture store
C) a car dealership
D) a restaurant

8. Who hosted the 'Saturday Hop'?
A) Henry Dupre
B) Pie Dufour
C) John Pela
D) Sid Noel

9. What's the highest point of land in New Orleans (besides the levees)?
A) Esplanade Ridge
B) Monkey Hill
C) French Quarter
D) Metairie Ridge

10. What building is on the uptown side of St. Louis Cathedral?
A) Presbytere
B) Cabildo
C) Upper Pontalba
D) Le Petit Theater

11. Where did the 'Pelicans' play baseball?
A) Tulane and Broad
B) Airline Hwy and David Drive
C) Carrollton and Tulane
D) City Park

12. Where was the Sugar Bowl game played before the Superdomewas built?
A) Tad Gormley Stadium
B) Pan American Stadium
C) Tiger Stadium
D) Tulane Stadium

13. Who always walked around the French Quarter with her pet duck?
A) Ruthie
B) Zelda
C) Cat Woman
D) Blaze Star

14. If you were at the City's old bomb shelter, where would you be?
A) The CBD
B) N.O. East
C) Algiers
D) West End

15. Which of these was the City's historic shipping channel from Lake Pontchartrain to downtown?
A) 17th St. Canal
B) Harvey Canal
C) Bayou St. John
D) Industrial Canal

16. What does the term 'Vieux Carre' mean?
A) Old Square
B) Pleasant View
C) River View
D) Old Quarter

17. What is the oldest building still standing in New Orleans?
A) St. Louis Cathedral
B) Old Ursuline Convent
C) The Cabildo
D) Lafitte's Bar

18. Which community's French name literally means 'small farm?'
A) Metairie
B) Faubourg Marigny
C) Gentilly
D) Treme

19. What New Orleans neighborhood was carved out of the old Livaudais Plantation?
A) Treme
B) Holly Grove
C) The Garden District
D) Gentilly

20. What was the "Blue Book"?
A) New Orleans' Social Register
B) A directory of Storyville Brothels
C) A directory of private schools
D) A list of Civil Codes

21. Who is the oldest Neville Brother?
A) Art
B) Aaron
C) Charles
D) Cyril

22. What New Orleans musician's real name is Mac Rebennack?
A) Dr. John
B) Professor Longhair
C) Deacon John
D) Fats Domino

23. What is an alligator pear?
A) Coconut
B) Avocado
C) Mirliton
D) Pineapple

24. For Years New Orleanians shopped at K&B Drugstores. What did the K&B stand for?
A) Katz and Besthoff
B) Kole and Blaine
C) Keller and Bohn
D) Klein and Burgdoff

25. Sidney Noel Rideau played what character on New Orleans TV?
A) The Special Man
B) Uncle Henry
C) The Great McNutt
D) Morgus The Magnificent

26. What Lakefront park offered beauty pageants, high wire acts and amusement rides?
A) West End
B) Pontchartrain Beach
C) Old Beach
D) Spanish Fort

27. What does New Orleans musician Clarence Henry prefer to be called?
A) The Emperor
B) Frogman
C) Moss Man
D) Fats Domino

28. What all-night radio show on WWL attracted truckers and
insommiacs for decades?
A) Dawnbusters
B) The Wheelers
C) Hap's Open Road Show
D) Charlie Douglas & the Road Gang

29. Miss Linda and her 'Magic Mirror' appeared on which show?
A) Miss Moffett
B) Romper Room
C) Popeye and Pals
D) Morgus the Magnificent

30. 'Smokey Mary' was an old excursion train that used to run to what amusement park?
A) Spanish Fort
B) West End
C) Pontchartrain Beach
D) Milneburg





Answers:

1- C. Louie Armstrong
2- A. Regal and Jax
3- D. Pontchartrain Expressway
4- A. A roller coaster
5- C. Mr. Bingle
6- B. St. Louis #1
7- B. a furniture store
8- C. John Pela
9- B. Monkey Hill
10- B. Cabildo
11- C. Carrollton and Tulane
12- D. Tulane Stadium
13- A. Ruthie
14- D. West End
15- C. Bayou St. John
16- A. Old Square
17- B. Old Ursuline Convent
18- A. Metairie
19- C. The Garden District
20- B. A directory of Storyville Brothels
21- A. Art
22- A. Dr. John
23- B. Avocado
24- A. Katz and Besthoff
25- D. Morgus The Magnificent
26- B. Pontchartrain Beach
27- B. Frogman
28- D. Charlie Douglas & the Road Gang
29- B. Romper Room
30- D. Milneburg

Magnolia Grille for late night breakfast. get the "Kitchen Sink". A good place to go to when staggering home from the Maple Leaf

Try Acme Oyster house just of Bourbon on Iberville great fried seafood and raw oysters. Also for traditional New Orleans BBQ Shrimp go to Pascal Manale's its reasonable but you may have to suffer and drink at the bar while waiting on a table.

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New Orleans. Moh-ahaaa-ahaaaa.

Me+Bot+John Doe=trouble.

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Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

cooter brown's (great beer selection and bar food), stingray's (seafood), cote sud (french), nirvana (india), juan's flying burrito (just trust me), mike anderson's (seafood/local), maspero's (local), ninja (sushi), acme (local), anselmo's (italian), port of call (awesome burgers), r&o's (local), come back inn (local), galley (seafood), trauth's (seafood/local), crazy johnny's (awesome steaks), smitty's (seafood), short stop (local/po-boys (grinders, subs, whatever)).

these are all low to moderately priced restaurants that are in our regular rotation. i personally despise the quarter (too many tourists being drunk, stupid, losing their cars, etc. ) so most of those are uptown, in the suburbs, etc. look them up or pm me if you need any more info. i've been down here for about 9 years and i have found some good places to eat, and better places to drink.

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2007 toyota yaris lb
2007 nissan versa (wife's)
2001 nissan frontier
2006 bmw r1150gs
2001 ducati monster 900
2003 zr7s
2007 klr650

i really like muriel's in the quarter

Nice sandwiches, desserts and such at le Madeleine across St Charles from Cooter Browns.

Good one! I was able to answer about 27 of 'em (didn't know about the Neville Bros. or about the avocado, etc.). I'll quibble and say that the Cabildo, La Petit Theatre, and the Upper Pontalba apartment building are all just to the uptown side of the cathedral, but of course the question meant "What building is right next to the Cathedral on the uptown side?" And while I recall Regal beer signs everywhere during my grade school days, I don't recall the Regal brewery. (A Google search tells me it was in the 300 block of Bourbon, where the Royal Sonesta hotel stands today.)

I'd have to agree that the Acme Oyster House, Port of Call, and its sister place, Snug Harbor, on Frenchmen Street just outside the Quarter, are all top-notch joints. Besides Jacques-Imo's, you could try the Upperline, uptown on Upperline St. between Prytania and St. Charles, and also Clancy's on Annunciation Street (way uptown). I've eaten at Clancy's -- but it might be outside your price range.

Yes, parking and towing is a racket. How else can you shore up an economy, as our own Recovery Czar said, that's based mostly on T-shirts?
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('03 Buick Park Avenue, charcoal/cream)
Formerly:
'97 C230, smoke silver/parchment; '86 420SEL, anthracite/light grey; '84 280CE (W123), dark blue/palomino

I missed a shirt-load of them! It was fun asking my firends from NOLA. Many of them were stumped, too. It seems biased to the 1960's & 1970's and so younger New Orleanians are disadvantaged.

B

PS I rode the Zephyr.