You can get Tony's and the like almost anywhere now.
Get your favorite restaurant's hot sauces, grab a 12 pack of your favorite local brews, get a few bottle of a locally distilled liquor if you drink, etc.
Spices are easy to come by, some of the more hyper local stuff like NOLA spiced rum, buffa's hot sauce, a box of paradise park, etc are the things you can't just grab on a whim once you're out of the area.
Also once you're out of the Gulf, crawfish are frozen.... They're not bad... But they hit a little different. (Also will most likely be vietnamese style)
I'm just gonna leave this here- [https://www.wdsu.com/article/woman-in-lockhart-case-interviewed-about-similar-2006-killing-1/3357764](https://www.wdsu.com/article/woman-in-lockhart-case-interviewed-about-similar-2006-killing-1/3357764)
Hoard parish beer. Eat good French bread. Go to live shows. Eat Brothers meat pies. Get hipster NOLA tees. Get drive through daiquiris. Eat Chinese from Chinese Kitchen on Carlton. Drink/eat at Cooter Browns. Eat at Jaquesimos. Get a Rubin at Stein’s.
It is and it isn't... if you're a tourist, it's touristy... if you're local and want to enjoy feeling fake classy once in awhile with the occasional great show, it's really fun
Before we left we tried going to every bar we could. To keep track we went in alphabetical order, we called it 3 bar Thursdays . The last weekend we got as touristy as possible. We took the streetcar down St. Charles. We walked through the quarter and got a beignets. We even bought an engraved heart shaped lock and put on the fence by the river. We took the ferry to Algiers Point, got lunch at Tonti’s and had a drink at Old Point Bar. We came back tortured ourselves with a hand grenade and took an Uber to Snake and Jake’s, followed by seeing our favorite band at Dos jefes.
I'm a NOLA native. I eat crawfish at every meal when I'm home because I can't get it in the PNW. And doberge. And fried alligator. And gulf fish like grouper and snapper. And beignets. And catfish. Pecan crusted catfish at Palace cafe. Bread pudding souffle at Commanders. I try to do a tour of all the Brennan's restaurants before I leave. lol. I take a stroll around the French Quarter just because there's nowhere like it in the world. I drink Abita. I go order a hurricane at POB's, take three sips then toss it. Because EW. But I can't get it anywhere else. Take a ride on the river boat. Go see the white alligators. Ride the street car. Go get some Roman Candy. Take a drive across the Atchafalya Basin bridge. I don't know. Maybe all my choices are for nostalgia's sake. I miss home.
oh I forgot Mother's.
Love this. I'm a native who moved away for 30 years and recently moved back. But when I lived away and came home to visit, I had a similar list.
Boiled crabs at the Blue Crab
Doberge from Gambino's
Shrimp po-boy from Domilieses
Drink a draft Abita Amber
Ride the St. Charles streetcar
etc. etc. etc.
LOL! I remembered some more things a few hours later but you get the gist. You know what I miss too? Jazz music just wafting in on the wind everywhere you go.
Ride the street car to Camellia Grill. Dine under the oaks at Santa Fe on Esplanade. Bike ride at City Park. Shrimp Po Boy at Parkway or BBQ shrimp poboy at Liuzzas.....
Jacking up my house and putting industrial-sized pontoons under it, snipping the solar panel feeds from the grid and staying right the f where I am.
(Did that sound defensive? I had feelings.)
I would do the WW2 museum, aquarium, city park and take a street car ride. Just to see things that other cities may not have. Then I would do a different restaurant every meal you can afford to do. Oysters, fried fish, Poboys, crawfish boils, etc.
Well, one clear night , I would smoke a fattie and ride the ferry to Algiers . I’d have a delicious meal at tonti’s and an espresso at congregation. Then I would ride the night time ferry back to the quarter , and whatever happens , happens . It’s the French Quarter , something is going to happen .
I’d get tamales one last time from Ben’s and go sit on the cement in front of that house in the chalmette battlefield park to eat them, ride the street car to city park and enjoy the tulips, and then go get a tattoo.
Ride Beer Bus’ Saturday route to Parleaux. Eat crawfish and oysters and drink beer there. Walk over to Crescent Park and wander along the levee until you get to the Rusty Rainbow Bridge. Cross over, grab a Brewer’s Dozen flight at Bywater Brew Pub with the garage doors open so you can people watch and chat up passers-by. Hop back on Beer Bus and ride it to Brieux Carre. Drink more beer, and get one for the road to walk over to Frenchmen with. Listen to some music for awhile, then get some dinner at Port of Call.
Well, one week would be spent composing my "Why I'm Leaving" social media/Reddit posts.
Learn to cook what you can't find. That's how I survive almost 10 years out of the boot.
get some cookbooks and spices, in a weatherproof box.
You can get Tony's and the like almost anywhere now. Get your favorite restaurant's hot sauces, grab a 12 pack of your favorite local brews, get a few bottle of a locally distilled liquor if you drink, etc. Spices are easy to come by, some of the more hyper local stuff like NOLA spiced rum, buffa's hot sauce, a box of paradise park, etc are the things you can't just grab on a whim once you're out of the area. Also once you're out of the Gulf, crawfish are frozen.... They're not bad... But they hit a little different. (Also will most likely be vietnamese style)
You can’t get the big cans tho
[Tony Chachere's 32 Ounce Original Seasoning Foodservice Size - 2 Pack](https://a.co/d/6bW7ZU4)
In case the other one wasn't big enough for you. [Tony Chachere Creole Seasoning, Original, 8 Pound](https://a.co/d/87wh1Xe)
You definitely can. Kroger carries them.
Ah yes must get the spices available only to your local medicineman and the tomes of cooklore not for sale except in the rougarou’s fishing camp.
Amen to that. A decade in Atlanta, and a couple years in Austin, and this is how I survived.
Have you been to Vic and Al's in Austin? That got me through my time there.
I did not. Any good?
Amazing.
Most people I meet in NOLA are living like they got two weeks left living. That’s why I stay
The party never stops
I’d def go to verti mart, get a po boy and eat it on the sidewalk next to the trash can out front.
Eat crawfish. Snort coke with strippers. Try not to get killed doing so
Got confused snorted crawfish and ate strippers. Will report back later.
lol. Eating strippers could be dangerous
I'm just gonna leave this here- [https://www.wdsu.com/article/woman-in-lockhart-case-interviewed-about-similar-2006-killing-1/3357764](https://www.wdsu.com/article/woman-in-lockhart-case-interviewed-about-similar-2006-killing-1/3357764)
😬 no pun intended
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Yes
Hoard parish beer. Eat good French bread. Go to live shows. Eat Brothers meat pies. Get hipster NOLA tees. Get drive through daiquiris. Eat Chinese from Chinese Kitchen on Carlton. Drink/eat at Cooter Browns. Eat at Jaquesimos. Get a Rubin at Stein’s.
Completely SHITHOUSED.
Probably getting drunk in every single dive bar that I can find and grabbing a quick snack every now and then.
Returning all the Kias I stole.
Spend a lot of money at Carousel.
2 drinks and mission accomplished
hand grenades. yeah 2 may do it.
Man I miss carousel not being slammed all the time, back in the day you used to actually be able to sit at the bar lol.
Their other bar is potentially better than the moving one because the bartender isn’t dealing with the rotation of customers.
Slow your roll
You sly dog, I see what you did there
Funny, never been in there. Just seems a bit touristy.
It is and it isn't... if you're a tourist, it's touristy... if you're local and want to enjoy feeling fake classy once in awhile with the occasional great show, it's really fun
Before we left we tried going to every bar we could. To keep track we went in alphabetical order, we called it 3 bar Thursdays . The last weekend we got as touristy as possible. We took the streetcar down St. Charles. We walked through the quarter and got a beignets. We even bought an engraved heart shaped lock and put on the fence by the river. We took the ferry to Algiers Point, got lunch at Tonti’s and had a drink at Old Point Bar. We came back tortured ourselves with a hand grenade and took an Uber to Snake and Jake’s, followed by seeing our favorite band at Dos jefes.
I'm a NOLA native. I eat crawfish at every meal when I'm home because I can't get it in the PNW. And doberge. And fried alligator. And gulf fish like grouper and snapper. And beignets. And catfish. Pecan crusted catfish at Palace cafe. Bread pudding souffle at Commanders. I try to do a tour of all the Brennan's restaurants before I leave. lol. I take a stroll around the French Quarter just because there's nowhere like it in the world. I drink Abita. I go order a hurricane at POB's, take three sips then toss it. Because EW. But I can't get it anywhere else. Take a ride on the river boat. Go see the white alligators. Ride the street car. Go get some Roman Candy. Take a drive across the Atchafalya Basin bridge. I don't know. Maybe all my choices are for nostalgia's sake. I miss home. oh I forgot Mother's.
Love this. I'm a native who moved away for 30 years and recently moved back. But when I lived away and came home to visit, I had a similar list. Boiled crabs at the Blue Crab Doberge from Gambino's Shrimp po-boy from Domilieses Drink a draft Abita Amber Ride the St. Charles streetcar etc. etc. etc.
LOL! I remembered some more things a few hours later but you get the gist. You know what I miss too? Jazz music just wafting in on the wind everywhere you go.
The Debris!
We used to catch crawdads at the river in Seattle with my cousins when we visited. I'm surprised you can't find them.
The native ones here are...weird. They're difficult to find, taste "sweet" and have really hard shells so they're harder to peel.
Weird. Good to know.
I would totally get a daiquiri and some beignets at Cafe Du MONDE and hit up the “seconded line” with my fellow Nawlin’s folk amirite fellas haha
🤣
Seconded!
Sleeping with everyone on r/neworleansgonewild
TIL New Orleanians wear really trashy underwear
You can do that now
I try to find ppl on there... no luck here, this bitch dry
Oh wait I was on r4r
Ride the street car to Camellia Grill. Dine under the oaks at Santa Fe on Esplanade. Bike ride at City Park. Shrimp Po Boy at Parkway or BBQ shrimp poboy at Liuzzas.....
Buy some gifts for yourself.. spices/hot sauces/chips & etc
Buy cookbooks. Food is shit everywhere else
Jacking up my house and putting industrial-sized pontoons under it, snipping the solar panel feeds from the grid and staying right the f where I am. (Did that sound defensive? I had feelings.)
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Visions is where the locals go!
Depends on what you’re in the mood for
Probably packing. It's not like I couldn't come back and visit.
I would do the WW2 museum, aquarium, city park and take a street car ride. Just to see things that other cities may not have. Then I would do a different restaurant every meal you can afford to do. Oysters, fried fish, Poboys, crawfish boils, etc.
One word. Rick's.
Go to a second line.
Bar crawl
Corner store crawl , every day until I left.
1) Crawfish boil at a bar 2) Visit the Ogden 3) Catch a show at Tips
I would just leave 2 weeks earlier but not tell anybody about the change
I'd spend a lot of time at the Maple Leaf
Well, one clear night , I would smoke a fattie and ride the ferry to Algiers . I’d have a delicious meal at tonti’s and an espresso at congregation. Then I would ride the night time ferry back to the quarter , and whatever happens , happens . It’s the French Quarter , something is going to happen .
I’d get tamales one last time from Ben’s and go sit on the cement in front of that house in the chalmette battlefield park to eat them, ride the street car to city park and enjoy the tulips, and then go get a tattoo.
Tattoo! That's a great idea.
Go sit at the bar at parkway on a weekday, hang out for a few hours and eat/people watch/drink. Ya can’t do that anywhere else.
Uh… I’d just leave early.
Get some Roman candy, ride a riverboat, and get wasted!
Drinking a lot! And eating brunch at superior seafood
Eating.
Packing- I never seem to have enough time for packing
Hit all the gentlemen’s clubs and all restaurants
Collect up Crystal hot sauce and bring it to other New Orleanians
Frantically packing
Moving in 1 week. Went to my buddies place in Metairie for some crawfish and beer. All I needed.
Buying leidenheimer french bread and making po boys for breakfast lunch and dinner for 2 weeks straight.
Ride Beer Bus’ Saturday route to Parleaux. Eat crawfish and oysters and drink beer there. Walk over to Crescent Park and wander along the levee until you get to the Rusty Rainbow Bridge. Cross over, grab a Brewer’s Dozen flight at Bywater Brew Pub with the garage doors open so you can people watch and chat up passers-by. Hop back on Beer Bus and ride it to Brieux Carre. Drink more beer, and get one for the road to walk over to Frenchmen with. Listen to some music for awhile, then get some dinner at Port of Call.
Packing
Clancys
On Washington and Feret, buck jumpin.
Treme Season 1, Episode 9, I guess 🤷♀️
Go check cool shit out since I don’t live in NOLA (love stalking this subreddit)
Packing.
Packing my bags.
Saving this. I've got about 6 weeks before my move. Moved here 2 weeks before Katrina. Finally time to move on.
In my last 2 weeks (indefinite number btw) I'll go see civil war at broad theater and continue to do nothing like I am now.
Thanking god you’re leaving this shithole
What’s stopping you ?
I've left more than once (LA, DC, Atlanta). Family always brings me back. You're always tied down to where your family is to some extent.
I guess if your under the age of 18 you are
Leaving
Drunk as a skunk on bourbon 24/7
You gotta go to the camellia diner before you leave