Coops is really good but might be a little far with a small child in tow. The have a gumbo trio that should satisfy your gumbo wish if you can get down there.
Drago’s is close to the street car line and well worth the visit. I don’t like oysters but thier barbeque shrimp po boy is definatley worth going back for.
Camilla Grille was really good but the wait (on New Years Day) was daunting.
I thing Johnny’s Po boy and Mothers are both over rated but then I have been spoiled by the “we never close” po boy place that was on Chef Menteur. And the Verdi Marte grilled shrimp po boy which is also a long walk with a kid.
I have rarely had a bad meal in new orleans but some places were more memorable than others. Deanie’s is the only one recently that was awful enough to never go back.
as a funny aside, a bunch of my friends from Memphis and I went to New orleans for the French Quarter music festival. We went for dinner at a restaurant that used to be jail or something. We asked the waiter what he recommended on their menu and he told us that the Memphis style ribs were popular. We decided that we didn’t come all that way to eat ribs like from home.
Well, I have to admit that I haven’t been there in twenty years. Shame on me for recommending them on such old experience. I’ve been to the other places I mentioned more recently than that, though.
I went to the French Quarter location, the service took forever to get waited on even though there were very few other patrons. My food took a really long time to come out and was over seasoned (salty) and cold. The crawfish balls were raw in the middle. I had beg servers to get a refill of tea.
We went to the FQ Deanies for BBQ shrimp (I’d never had them before) not long ago. The service was very good. The BBQ shrimp were also good but it was a real battle getting them out of their shells. Is that normal?
