Boog’s friend from NYU cleverly and kindly recommended these stops from her home town…New Orleans.

EATS
-Coop’s place - casual, dive-bar atmosphere, but damned good. Menu suggestions:
gumbo and rabbit & sausage jambalaya with an Abita Restoration ale. In French
Quarter.
http://www.coopsplace.net/

-Cafe du Monde - cafe au lait and sugar-piled fried doughnuts. You just gotta. French
Quarter
http://www.cafedumonde.com/
Cochon
http://www.cochonrestaurant.com/

DRINKS
Columns Hotel - where they filmed Pretty Baby (Louis Malle’s movie featuring
the underaged Brooke Shields as a ‘ho) and, more importantly, where I stayed
after we got married! Great porch for watching the streetcar on St. Charles ave
Uptown.
http://www.thecolumns.com/

Feelings Cafe - it’s a restaurant and the food is pretty good, but the bar is awesome.
it’s in an interior courtyard in what used to be a plantation house in the Marigny/Bywater
section of NOLA. Also, the peanut butter pie is amazing for dessert.
http://www.feelingscafe.com/

RBar - oh, how many sweet hours of my life did I waste here? There’s a surprisingly
nice inn upstairs, but the downstairs bar is the spot for not-quite-divey but casual
drinks.
http://royalstreetinn.com/

ACTIVITIES
-Sit a while on the benches along the Mighty Mississip, behind Cafe du Monde; stroll
through Jackson Square across the street and the rest of the quarter.
-Take a streetcar ride along St Charles and look at all the garden district houses.
-If it can happen safely, survey the flood damage in the lower 9th ward. Apparently,
the musician’s village is a thing to see.
MISC
-Make sure to always check hours of restaurants. They still sometimes close ridiculously
early, like 8 or 9 in some instances.
-Gambit is the local Village Voice-ish listings paper. Offbeat is good for music
listings.
-Be safe! No walking about late at night alone. A good cab company to call
is United. http://www.unitedcabs.com/