1. Beignets & cafe au lait
Oh, Cafe Du Monde! Your fluffly hot beignets are crispy and sweet, your cafe au lait is smoky with chickory. $7 for two milky coffees and two orders of beignets. Tip your waitress well-- she's working her ass off and is still smiling.
2. Oysters & crawfish
Both are seasonal and both are plentiful and cheap when the time is right. A dozen oysters for nine bucks? A pound of crawfish for even less? Yes, please. These are from Acme Oyster House but there are great oysters and crawfish to be had all over the city.
3. Po'boys & muffalettas
Sigh. These sandwiches... oh, these sandwiches! These were some of the last bites we had before leaving the city and, oh, what good bites. These were both from Ignatius Eatery on Magazine Street, a new restaurant. The roast beef po'boy was stuffed with fork-tender beef that was perfectly seasoned and very juicy. The muffaletta was something stolen from the buffet in heaven. Get the muffaletta warm. I was stuffed but could not stop eating it. We had others while we were there (and Patrick has probably eaten enough over the years he was living there to fill a taxi cab) but these were simply the best. Two huge sandwiches and two beers for just over $20.
4. Breakfast
There is great breakfast to be had all over the city. The pictures above are from Petunias but there are lots of other places to get a great, hangover-chasing breakfast. Camellia Grill is another great stop (chili cheese omelette with a pile of french fries, anyone?) If there's a line out the door at 10 a.m. and the scents wafting towards you are making you salivate, get in line.
5. Abita
I'm not a huge beer person (moonshine, anyone?) but I will never turn down an Abita, especially when they run about $3 a pop in the city (you can get Abita from BevMo. See that you do.) Their strawberry lager is delicious but hard to find outside of the south. Second best (for me) is TurboDog. Their brewery is just over the causeway* in Abita Springs and is a nice little day trip, especially when coupled with a visit to Insta-Gator.
*haha, just over the causeway... also known as the longest causeway in the world. There's nothing quite like being in the middle of Lake Pontchartrain with only water surrounding you!
Friday, April 18, 2008
Five for Friday: Five New Orleans Cheap Eats
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5 comments:
beignets, the refined doughnut.
you can't go to new orleans and not go to cafe du monde for chickory and that delicious deep fried dough. glad to see that your travels took you there.
So how were the beignets? Rating those based upon the photo i think the presentation is sloppy, so I would give the presentation a 2 out of 5. The way they just mounded the powdered sugar on top of the beignets instead of holding them with a tong while shaking powdered sugar all over them for an even coating. NOt a fan, here. But, I am picky.
Of course, I also cannot rate things such as crunch, lightness of batter, greasiness, etc.
Pff, are ya kidding me? Those are Cafe Du Monde! They don't get better. After all, they're fried in cotton seed oil. Anything that awful for you must be damn tasty-- crispy, light, not oily at all, hot and sweet with just the lightest undertone of cinnamon. Absolute perfection. And I think they use about a cup of powdered sugar on each plate, so you kind of dust in on your own as you eat (and dust yourself as well, nomnomnom.)
i love this blog
-siren.
And I love siren! Girlie, you need to get your own blog and start writin' it up, yo. Yo.
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