NOLA Take 2


We arrived in New Orleans on Friday night just in time for some dinner and touring Bourbon Street. Our original plan was to go to Acme Oyster House for dinner but after arriving there and seeing the line was out the door, we went across the street to Bourbon House which also had great seafood. K and I shared some oysters, gumbo, and the most delicious crab cake ever!


Since it was already late we went to check out the bar scene on Bourbon Street which is a never a dull moment.



My favorite bar was probably Huge Ass Beers because they had the cider I like and well the name is just funny. Labor Day in Nola is also Gay Pride weekend (as I mentioned yesterday in Part 1) so there were some protesters on Bourbon Street which caused a scene considering the crowd. We saw crazy characters like drunk Homer Simpson and most of K and I's photos together had a funny photobomb of some sort.



On Saturday after touring Jackson Square and trying some beignets, we met up at Lafittes Blacksmith Shop Bar to go on the Bloody Mary's Ghost Pub Crawl with a small group of people who were also visiting and a tour guide, who shared lots of great history about New Orleans along with all the ghosts stories. It wasn't exceptionally scary and we didn't see any ghosts (thankfully) but it was a fun tour.




On Saturday night we had dinner at Oceana Grill. K and I shared more oysters, crab cakes and ettouffe. We clearly couldn't get enough of trying all the seafood but we enjoyed taste testing everything instead of getting big meals.


We also really liked the view from our hotel every morning and the location was perfectly central in the French Quarter near to the Mississippi River.


Sunday was all about some jazz brunch, touring the Mississippi Riverwalk, and then over to Frenchman Street which is where all the locals hangout as opposed to Bourbon Street.




We ate at The Original Pierre Maspero's. I definitely recommend this restaurant for lunch or dinner. So good!


Finally we ventured over to the Decadance festival to walk around and check out all the action. There was so much going on. So many fun costumes, dancing in the streets and just overall craziness. I think the pictures can speak for themselves.


As you can see from the photos, we had a blast touring NOLA and celebrating K's 35th birthday.

14 comments

  1. Such a great trip!! So much good food - I mean what else could you need! I'm taking notes for sure! xo, Biana -BlovedBoston

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  2. Oh my Bourbon Street at night is an interesting place. At least judging by the lady holding your Big Ass Beers lol! Ugh the food in NOLA has me drooling already!
    <3, Pamela
    Sequins & Sea Breezes

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  3. All that seafood making my mouth water… and that chicken + waffles OMG!

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  4. We loved getting multiple food items to split too because there was just so much food to try and not enough time to try it all! The Ghost Tour Pub Crawl sounds like so much fun, so next time we go back we'll definitely have to add that to our list!

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  5. Stop it! You have me seriously craving a NOLA trip again. Looks like it was an absolutely awesome time! I hope you're starting to recover from it all :)

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  6. ah what a fun trip! you guys really hit all the right food and people watching spots :) give me all the gumbo and the best crab cake please :) i love a good ghost tour too. :)

    xoxo cheshire kat

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  7. Drunk Homer Simpson... lmao
    The ghost tour sounds cool! I'd prob be scared the whole time but what a fun idea!!!

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  8. Looks like such a great trip! New Orleans is high up on our "easy weekend" travel list so I'll definitely be remembering your stops!

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  9. I'm hungry now! What a name for a bar! I love a good cider beer as well! Just think of all the good memories you will have about NOLA!! ;-)

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  10. I really need to get my butt back to NOLA and do it right! It amazes me how similar New Orleans is to Key West, in my opinion Bourbon Street = Duval Street :)

    And alll that food - YUMMMM!

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  11. are those protesters for real? ugh. how ridiculous. makes me so mad!
    sounds like you guys had a great time, and most importantly you ate tons of good food!

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  12. I cant even deal with drunk Homer Simpson. That is HILARIOUS! I need to get to NOLA! It is on my list!

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  13. All of the food, give me!!! Drunk Homer is cracking me up!!! Sad that there were protesters there but I am not surprised, there are always some that show up for Atlanta's pride week too. What is your favorite cider?

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  14. Haha I have a picture of Homer from when I was there in June. I'm still so sad that I didn't manage to eat any fresh oysters when I was along the Gulf.

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