2014 Trip - Day 6 - October 8

We had a light breakfast at Croissant D'or -- a couple of raspberry croissants and we split a coke - 8.00. After breakfast we headed out to Jefferson Highway to hit a couple of thrift stores (Salvation Army and Red, White, and Blue). At Red, White and Blue, I made an error in what I thought was on sale and spent a little more than I meant to..oh, well...that's how it goes sometimes.

On the way back in to the French Quarter, we first stopped at Haydel's for a Cajun Kringle. After that brief stop, we headed to Crabby Jack's to get one of my favorite po boys, Fried Green Tomatoes with Shrimp Remoulade. We split a 12" and with a couple of drinks our tab was 18.00.

We got a surprise when we got back to the apartment, even though the Cajun Kringle was in the same size box, the width of the kringle was about 1/2 what it used to be, but it is still mighty tasty.

Walked to Armstrong Park to see John Cleary, but either we couldn't find where the concert was happening OR we got there at intermission. Will try again next Wednesday for the same event. We decided to grab a quick bite and go see The Tin Men at DBA. Went by Coops and it was jam packed, so headed on over to DBA for the show. After watching their first set, we were hungry and went back by Coops and they had a line out the door, so, we decided to go to Acme, where we found another terrible line....WTF..it's Wednesday and there aren't a lot of people here....but they all want to eat where we want to eat. 

We walked on down to Decatur street to Felipe's Taqueria for a couple of tacos and back at the apartment we had some Kringle for dessert.

2012 Trip - Day 4 - October 6

We started the day at one of our favorite breakfast places, La Peniche. Peggy had eggs, grits, toast, and bacon and I had the pancake....Yes, the pancake as in one pancake (see below) and sausage. I tried my best but I just could not quite finish eating all of it. (tab at La Peniche was $29.00)

Lunch had to be pretty small since we were still somewhat stuffed from breakfast, so we went back to Felipe's Taqueria  - char-broiled chicken for Peggy, pork for me, and we split a chorizo taco (although neither one of us cared much for the chorizo). Our tab was slightly higher today ($13.00) because I had a Mexican Coke.

Supper was at Mother's. This place gets a bad rap as a tourist joint, but I've eaten all over town the past 15 years and I personally think their debris roast beef po boy is great. It gets better with each bite you take. We split a debris po boy and a piece of sweet potato pie. Unfortunately the pie was lacking in flavor. Cost of eating at Mothers - $23.00.

2012 Trip - Day 3 - October 5

Since we didn't make it to Dorignac's yesterday, I wanted to go today early and get back early, so we had a light breakfast at Croissant D'Or - 2 raspberry croissants and we split a coke (tab - $6.00)

Then we were off to Dorignac's to make some groceries - well mostly to get some items from their bakery.

 

I can't imagine there's a better grocery store bakery anywhere else. Standing in front of the counter is Roy the bakery manager and red shirt guy who complained his cherry pie didn't have enough cherries. He said he should have brought it back, but he ate it anyway. This all translated to I want a free pie! He 

got one too.

We stocked up on some goodies - a slice each of orange cake & lemon cake, a Napoleon, and 2 lemon and 2 chocolate doberge squares. We ate the orange and lemon cake slices earlier for snack, the orange one was good, but the lemon one was sort of dry. Guess you can't get a winner every time.

For lunch we headed to Yo Mama's for a burger. I didn't get a shot of the outside, but here's a view of the inside taken from our table. The fellow to the right was a hoot and entertained the people he was with and also us. He sort of talked and looked a little bit like Max Baer as Jethro Bodine.

We split a cheeseburger and got an extra baked potato. Peggy had two Blue Moon beers and I had two Miller High Lifes. The beers were way to expensive (tourist rip off prices $4.50 and $4.00 each respective) and this made our total tab here $37.00. While Peggy says this is a "damn fine burger", I actually preferred the one we had last night at Camellia Grill.

Went to DBA and caught Hot Club of New Orleans - not really our cup of tea. It was what I like to call Woody Allen music. We had a couple of beers and left right before their first set ended. Since we were pretty stuffed from lunch and our afternoon cake snacks, we wanted something light for supper. We walked way back down to the other end of the FQ to eat at Felipe's Taqueria. 

We had three tacos (char-grilled chicken for Peggy, pork for me, and we split a marinated pork), with 2 root beers our tab was only $12.00. Not only was this a good meal, but cheap also.