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No breakfast today, as we got ready and went straight to the Friends of The Jefferson Public Library. It was being held a The Pontchartrain Center in Kenner about 30 minutes from the French Quarter. We loaded up on some books and videos (probably more than we should have, since now I've got to get them stuffed into the car for the trip back home).
On the way back in we stopped at Parkway Bakery and Tavern for a roast beef po boy, bread pudding and some long neck Barq's. They were packed at 3:00, I don't know how busy they must be at lunch. This was a good sandwich and I like the bread pudding which has a rum sauce.
Back to the apartment and some crazy rushing back to where I first parked the car when we returned this afternoon, when a space came open in front of the apartment (makes it easier to load out in the morning). We walked down to Acme, but the line was tremendous, so decided to eat at Camellia Grill, but on the way, we thought Chartres House looked good, but it was so noisy in the back, that we left and went across the street to our original destination, Camellia Grill or The Grill as they like to call it. Peggy had a pecan waffle and I had ham and cheese on rye. She also ordered a side of bacon and they REALLY gave her a side of bacon (see photo) above.
This will be the last entry for this trip. Normally, I'm ready to go home, whether we've been here two weeks or six weeks, but this time I really don't give a whit about going back to Greenville....and I don't even know what a "whit" is!
We had a light breakfast at Wink's Bakery (split a breakfast sandwich and we each had a buttermilk drop). Then we had to get clothes washed. After completing our chores, we went to Yo Mama's and split a Yo Mama's Cheeseburger and baked potato.
After a brief rest we walked down to Riverwalk so Peggy could do a little shopping and then walked back to the apartment and after another very brief rest, we walked to Mother's and had a baked ham po boy (just ok), red beans and rice (passable), bread pudding (good, but it's the old fashioned kind with fruit cocktail - Peggy likes it better than I do) and I had a piece of sweet potato pie (good).
There's so few people here tonight, there wasn't even a line at Coops, however, they were full inside. Lots of gutter punks out tonight on Decatur and lots of hustling of tourists on Bourbon tonight.
After the storms yesterday, the internet wouldn't connect on our laptop or Peggy's Kindle, but for some reason would connect on my Nook. We went to Cafe Envie since they had free internet, but once again they screwed our orders up. After catching up with our online pages, we went out of the French Quarter and did some thrifting and then stopped by Dorignac's to load up on some items to take home that we can't get in Greenville. Dorignac's has a new commercial on TV down here where there slogan is "We Got Dat" and to my amazement that have Dukes Mayonnaise, although we're getting pretty used to Blue Plate, which is to New Orleans what Duke's is to us native Greenvillians.
We picked up a few things from the Dorignac's bakery also and headed to Parkway for a roast beef po boy, but to our chagrin, they were closed on Tuesday. We thought about going to Cafe Reconcile but when we checked, we found they had already closed for the day. I remembered I always wanted to try Cochon, so we headed out to Tchoupitoulas and got a parking spot just a half block from their door.
This was a great meal, we had wood fired oysters with chili garlic butter, fried boudin with pickled
peppers, gumbo, and an apple and beet salad with pecans, feta and pickled
mustard seed vinaigrette. For dessert we had upside-down pineapple cake with
cherry sherbet and dulce de leche.
Later at the apartment, we realized we had eaten so much, we didn't need another meal, so we ate a couple of pastries from Dorignac's and a couple of buttermilk drops we had gotten this morning when we passed by Wink's.
We started the day by taking a white knuckle drive across The Causeway Bridge (longest continuous bridge over water in the world). I was in for 24 miles of pure grip the hell out of the steering wheel and hope I don't have a blow out and go over the side (3 people have died so far this year going off the bridge). With relief we made it across and we went to see our friend Eddie Rome, who used to live next door to us on Bourbon.
Eddie had a great house and a new sweet dog named Olivia. After we caught up on some things, we went to downtown Covington to eat lunch at Mattina Bella Restaurant. I had Blue Crab Benedict and Peggy had a Western omelet, everything was mighty tasty.
After brunch, we rode around a little bit and saw the countryside then made our way to Abita Springs (yes, where the beer is made), but the real treat was when Eddie said he wanted to take us to this museum. Well, have you ever forgotten something that you really wanted to do...this museum was one of those things for me. It used to be called the UCM Museum, but is now changed to The Mystery Museum. Full of....well, everything you could think of to collect.
After dropping Eddie back off at his house, we had to make that white knuckle drive back across the bridge and they charged me a 3.00 toll for that pleasure. We decided to go to The Palace Cafe for their 5 after 5 special and it rained all the way during our walk, but we made it in at 6:45, just 15 minutes before the cutoff....unfortunately, we didn't get waited on until 5 minutes after the cutoff time. I decided to complain to the management and this got fixed posthaste. We had buffalo oysters, duck spring rolls with a vidalia onion marmalade dip, and of course, our true reason to come...White Chocolate Bread Pudding! Best dessert in town, even though the slices cost more than our appetizers
One final note, we got some new neighbors and the redhead sitting outside introduced herself as GINGER...who woulda guessed!
We started the day out at Camellia Grill with pancakes and pecan waffle....oh, so much better than the bad breakfast at Horn's yesterday. We visited some of the bookstores in the French Quarter and then I had a mid afternoon nap.
After my nap, we went back to Drago's for a dozen charbroiled oysters and some bread pudding. Our waitress was close to being surly and won the award for the least liked server we've had so far (I guess she can still be topped before we leave). She wasn't terrible, just seems she might be in the wrong line of work.
We visited the Hustler store and had a fun time checking out two floors of adult goodies. My favorite thing was one of the classifications in the "DVD Special Interest Section" labeled "Family"....really a family section.....oh, not for the family, but about family...my bad...anyway, that amused me.
We needed a little something else to eat before heading back in and decided on Cafe Maspero's. We used to eat there a lot in the past, but haven't been there in many years. The oysters on the po boy were very good, but the sandwich could have used more oysters....guessed we're spoiled. Next time, we'll just order an oyster dinner - more oysters less bread. The banana bread pudding was ok, not great. My favorite thing about the whole meal was when we ordered Barq's in the bottle, our waitress wanted to warn us, we couldn't get any refills on them....really, you mean you want refill my bottle...haha...but she was nice and just trying to look out for us old codgers!
Horn's now occupies the space that our beloved La Peniche used to be in, but we thought we would give them a try. All I can say is too bad that La Peniche is gone, because Horn's sure didn't win us over. Everything but the sausage was overcooked with Peggy's waffle being so hard, she got tired of cutting it. The manager did come back and asked us how things were and when she told him about the waffle, he took it off our bill...guess I should have told him, that I'm no fan of crispy pancakes....yes crispy pancakes. Oh well, live and learn. I'm not even going to provide a link to this place, since it was such a disappointment.
We went to The Mint, part of the Parks Department, to see Tom Buck, who gave a one hour lecture with examples on the development of Jazz in New Orleans...to bad regular school was never this entertaining. He was introduced by park ranger, Bruce Barnes...as in Sunpie Barnes. After this concert we walked around to Louisiana Music Factory and caught the last part of Kyndra Joi & Soul Therapy. There was hardly anyone there and those that were there drifted off....too bad...I think they looked at this group and thought "just a bunch of sisters from the hood".... but they were super talented and had good stage presence.
After these two shows we went to Molly's at The Market where there is a tiny restaurant in the back called L'enfant. We had scotch eggs which were wrapped in boudin and covered with a remoulade sauce. These were quite tasty and I would definitely recommend them.
We went to One Eyed Jack's and saw Fleur de Tease's Halloween show and after the show we finally made it back to Acme again for some Boo Fries and Meat Pies (the meal that rhymes). Looks like 10 pm on a Saturday night is when the line is finally down.
We had a light breakfast at Wink's Bakery (buttermilk drops and honeybun), since we planned to have a larger meal at lunch at Sobou. One of the attractions was 25 cent martinis, the other was some interesting small plates. I had boudin balls, sweet potato beignets (foie gras fondue, duck debris, chicory coffee ganache), and pork belly steam bun (confit pork belly, pickled napa cabbage, with a peach bbq sauce) . Peggy had kale and satsuma salad with spicy pecans, goat cheese, and muscadine vinaigrette and for dessert we split a pecan pie not pie (served in a jar with a chocolate covered cracklin and peanut butter whipped cream) with a couple of martinis, a rum collins, and coffee. I needed a nap this afternoon.
After my nap, we went to DBA and saw Linzzi Zaorski (old time swing songs), but while her voice was still good, she just didn't have the snazzy stage presence she's had in the past, we attribute this to her being four months pregnant.
After seeing Linzzi, we walked down to Canal Street and caught the streetcar to Chickie Wah Wah (how I love to say that name), since one of our favorites, Paul Sanchez, was playing there. It is a super nice small club and they have a restaurant inside, Blue Oak BBQ. We had pork bbq nachos, which were pretty good, but the standout was the Beef Brisket Tacos, they were so good, we wished we had skipped the nachos and got two orders of the tacos.
This was a big adventure for us, out riding the streetcar at night to an unfamiliar (at least at night) part of town. We found that, just like everyone else in town, the streetcar drivers (at least the ones we had) are very nice. As an added treat on the way back in, a mentally disturbed woman boarded and I realized that I enjoy being on a streetcar with people like this....I guess New Orleans is the place for me!
