Eat Arkansas

I try not to eat things that stand up in my plate.

Lordy, that is funny, Bop..
I'm hearing Pete Fountain
and Al Hurt playing,
*Do You Know What It
Means To Miss New Orleans?*

YES

For LR foodies, there's some interesting thoughts on what might be going into the spot that housed Imagine-A-Restaurant on that new shopping blog (rocktheshops.blogspot.com) ...

Ah, New Orleans. The one place on Earth where it's worthwhile to vacation just for the food. Click on bluename to see my top nine pics (most of them relatively cheap, too!).

All those places are wonderful
Kat, for a special dress up
night in the city but, if you
want a real eating experience
where you go in your jeans
or capri's, get out of the
city, 15, 20 miles. Any little
lean-to shack, that serves
food, is NEVER to be
forgotten.

Sure enough -- but Coop's is about as close as you'll get to real people food in the Quarter.

Love that one particular butcher franchise out there -- the one with the slogan "You Can't Beat Wagner's Meat."

Suggestions on south-of-I-10 fare on the I-40 corridor?

Jacques Imo's - great meal. Ate outdoors in the back,

Anywhere in St. Charles
parish, west bank, 15 miles
from Huey Long bridge on
hwy. 90, also Jazzy's
Po Boy's, used to be in
Quarter but think they
moved after the 'cane....
be sure and try the Roast
Beef po boy.
I think its impossible to get
a bad meal anywhere down
there. We used to enjoy
Tujague's.

click to watch Jazzy's
PoBoys being put
together......
yummy

When I was young and had potential I was a student at Tulane. My friends and I were like grad students everywhere in that we were generally broke.

But we could afford the roast beef po-boy at Parasol's Irish Bar along with the copious amounts of Dixie it took to wash it down.

The first real Chinese food my country ass ever had was at some 4 star restaurant in a dump over on Claiborne. I was seeing an architecture student at the time. She was the closest thing to Edie Sedgwick I ever saw or will ever see nekkid in this life. She would order for me and we would take it back to her place on Palmer Ave where she lived with about 5 other humans.

I once saw Kenny Stabler having dinner at Mespero's with a woman my companion swore had to be a high dollar hooker mainly because, well, she went to college herself with a couple.

Wonderful memories. Great times.

Actually graduated and everything. And I should have married Edie.

Oh, Gawd, Bop, wasn't it
great to be young and in
N'Awlins??? So glad its home
to my 4 kids.
Memories of 25 years....

I keep looking at the second
pix and I'll swear that looks
like baby mice in that dish.

A cabbie taking me to a restaurant on Italian Hill in St. Louis told me there are no bad restaurants on The Hill. It's the same with New Orleans.

Coop's is great, for the food and prices, but it's also a cool bar with friendly people. Coop's used to have a Fayetteville connection, with staff who'd lived in Fayetteville and a former WRMC nurse who was a regular at the bar and lived in one of the apartments behind Coop's Place. My wife and I were regulars, and friends of Coop and Jason, the owners. Like a lot of Yats, they're intrigued by the Ozarks.

Back to my point, you can get a great po-boy of many kinds, along with plate foods, without dressing nice, at Domilise's, the Bon Ton, Frankie and Johnny's, either Liuzza's, Cooter Brown's, the Parkview Tavern, or just about anywhere. Check out the meat pies and po-boys at Citgo stations. You pretty much can't go wrong.

Oh yeah, don't forget Acme Oysters in da Quatahs for much more than just raw ersters. Cheap, but fantastic.

I forgot to plug Deannie's. I think the original location on Lake Ponchairtrain in Bucktown is open again, but I'm soitin that Deannie's in the Quarter is serving great food. The Deannie's in da Quatahs is a lot fancier than the family friendly place in Bucktown, and pricier, but not that bad.

Now I'm thinking about crab stuffed shrimp and Meniure Sauce. Soft shell crab with a Crawfish Bearnaise. Grits and fish drippin's.