Maison Belle Reve New Orleans
1325 General Pershing Street New Orleans, Louisiana, 70115, United States
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" Laissez les bons temps rouler "
... of the parades all of St Charles was barricaded and we didn't see a streetcar, I don't think they were running!! Anyway we did what we always do and that is walk.. walk and walk. I had already checked out the bus route on Magazine and so we hopped on the #11 to the museum... it was really well laid out, very interesting and well worth the visit. After a couple of hours I'd had enough though so we went back outside and ...
Day 1 - Traveling to New Orleans
... wait, the others started to arrive until all 9 of us were there and ready to be seated. The lone drawback to our dinner plans was that the restaurant did not take reservations and when we told the maitre de party of 9, she gave us the "you gotta be kidding" look. Luckily, we only had to wait about 10 minutes and another huge group finished their meal and we quickly got seated. The food was absolutely wonderful with most of us all ordering the ...
The City that Care Forgot
... br> From the fountain we walked out towards the water a little where Leah told us all about Hurricane Katrina. I was surprised to think she would so openly discuss this because I would have thought most survivors would want to put it behind them. From listening to the stories we were told I understood that this disaster has only made these amazing people even stronger. Most from what I understand have elected to stay in New Orleans even though they know it ...
Saturday Night's Alright (For Music)
... of gospel, bluegrass and folk songs that made you smile and tap your foot. We couldn’t quite figure out how they were able to project and sound so well using only one mic between them and having no mics on their instruments but maybe just the soul of places in the south lend themselves to great acoustics naturally. Following this band of late 20 to early 30 somethings we made it official and committed to dinner. Derek got his po-boy and ...
World's best brunch, fascinating graves, ponies
... du Monde for chicory coffee and beignets for W and B -- we were still too full from Commander's Palace. We eventually made our way to the French Market Restaurant where we were able to sit on the upstairs balcony overlooking the French Market area (by now it was dark). Wonderful! We had the best server and are sorry we don't recall her name. We split some champagne (seeing a trend for the ...


