New Orleans, Louisiana City Guide
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's New Orleans, Louisiana Travel Guide has been your connection to New Orleans's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Restaurants
 New Orleans is world-famous for its food, blessed with the only truly indigenous local cuisine in the nation. From the infiltration of hearty cajun country fare over the centuries to the local creole, haute creole and New Orleans French cuisines, New Orleans food is perhaps its most cherished possession. Local ingredients, African, Cuban, French, Spanish and Cajun traditions combine to produce a truly unique and easily recognizable New Orleans flavor.
New Orleans unique specialties include beignets which are square-shaped fried pastries that could be called French doughnuts, typically served with coffee and chicory "au lait". Po'boy and Italian Muffalettas; Gulf oysters on the half-shell, boiled crawfish, and other seafood; étouffée, jambalaya, gumbo, and other Creole dishes; and a Monday evening favorite, red beans and rice, are mere samples of the melody of tastes and flavors available. (Louis Armstrong often signed his letters, "red beans and ricely yours.") New Orleans residents enjoy some of the best restaurants in the United States that cater specifically to locals, and visitors are encouraged to try the local establishments recommended by their hosts. |
