The rest of our trip to New Orleans was full of a lot of
wandering,
exploring, and of course eats - some good, and some not good.
We love
District: Donuts, Sliders, Brew:
It a really trendy, cool place that sells specialty,
creative donuts and
sliders, as well as amazing
coffee. They have different types of
cold-brew coffee on tap!
It was so hard to decide between all the delicious kinds of
donuts:
We ended up getting a
cereal and milk donut, and it was sooooo good! It actually did taste like cereal and milk - craziness!
We went back later on the same day to buy
donuts to-go:
And then a few days later to get a
cinnamon bun with a brulee top:
Before our last trip to New Orleans, three years ago, we did a lot of research. We found out that
Commander's Palace tops a lot of lists, and was considered the best restaurant in NOLA. We didn't visit this place on our last trip, but we did on this trip ... and boy,
were we disappointed.
Commander's Palace is a
fine dining restaurant. It has a very
strict dress code, and a pricier menu.
The service is impeccable.
Unfortunately,
the food was bad. Very bad. The bread that they brought out was okay, but it was basically
day old,
store-bought garlic bread:
We tried the famous
turtle soup, but it tasted like
boring,
one-dimensional chili:
We had the
shrimp appetizer which was
almost inedible. It had a
strong chemical taste that was absolutely terrible:
Christopher had a
steak salad which he described as
bland and boring:
And then I had a
halibut dish with the most
terrible,
unseasoned sauce I've ever had:
The fish was well cooked, but nothing on the plate tasted good, so that kind of ruined it. We were so
incredibly disappointed, and don't know how this restaurant is still open, let alone popular. On the bright side, they do have
25 cent martinis:
We talked to a chef at another restaurant who used to work at
Commander's and he agreed with us, saying that
they survive on their name (still doesn't explain the awards!?).
This food is perfect for people who don't like flavour ... and that's all I'm going to say about that.
If you're ever in New Orleans, you absolutely have to walk around the
Garden District. It is so beautiful, and the homes are out-of-control. We had so much fun checking out all the mansions, most with huge gates, and surveillance cameras sticking out everywhere.
We made faces for the cameras.
We walked and walked and walked and walked ...
And checked out the gorgeous, heated,
salt-water pool at our hotel:
And
dressed up sometimes:
And
ate a lot, and I mean a lot,
of oysters:
We went to the
two most famous oyster joints in the French Quarter,
Acme Oyster House, and
Felix's. We ordered some
raw oysters and our new obsession,
char grilled oysters.
Muffuletta sandwiches are popular in NOLA, and we tried the
original muffuletta from
Central Grocery. It's worth all the fuss.
And finally, we went to
Root Squared (the sister restaurant to
Square Root which we went to for the tasting dinner; in the same building) for their
happy hour snack plate which included radish with butter, crispy chicken skin, a scotch egg, salt cod beignet, and pimento cheese:
Everything was delicious, especially that chicken skin.
Overall, our trip to New Orleans was fantastic. The weather was
hot and humid the whole time, with a giant storm hitting just as we were leaving on Friday. We definitely lucked out.
Do you have any trips coming up? Where to?
