Breakfast at French Toast: puff pancakes and lemon curd, hot sausage and French toast with berries

Jackson Square and Saint Louis Cathedral

The courtyard at our hotel: loved the location and renovation.

1st stop for Gumbo: restaurant in the hotel

Hotel de la Poaste where our restaurant meet up was

Cajun is french spicy, Creole other the others with tomato as a main ingredient

Famous Antoine's, longest running restaurant in the USA with the 2nd biggest collection of wine

Catfish Po boy followed by a Muffaleta, a Sicilian handheld antipasto

Po Boys...so named by two Irish sandwich shop founders to streetcar strikers

Next stop Sazarac House: excellent free museum and tour including 3 mini cocktails

Charbroiled oysters and a shared shandy at Acme Oyster House: fun at the bar

Charbroiled oysters: similar to escargot where garlic and butter dominate

French Quarter Vieux CarHistory and Food

May 4 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

We had booked a history and food tour at 1 pm. Split a breakfast to start our day and had interesting pancake puffs which were quite good, like a moist cream puff without the cream. Culture, history and food were the intended main themes of our trip. The French founded Louisiana (for King Louis and his wife Anna) and New Orleans in 1718, after about sixty years Spain took it over, then France briefly before it had to sell it off to pay debts owed primarily due to its role in the American Revolution. We had a walk through Jackson Square where Arts were setting up their wares. Overall Nancy rated the tour a 6-7/10.Read more