No local eats gumbo at a restaurant.. you have to go to the local seafood stores. Visitors please try Cajuns on Broad or Broadview Seafood. These small Asian and Arab run places is where we get our sandwiches from. They normally hire a black woman and steal her recipe.
I did enjoy parts of your video, especially the part at Court of Two Sisters and Drago’s, which are two staples of any food tour in New Orleans. As a native, I do think you should do a real po boy place like Domilise’s or Parkway instead of Joey K’s which is good but not one of the best. Also, you should include a Sazarac, which is a little more traditional NOLA drink. Other restaurants that are very worthy are Peche and Cochon Butcher. I think you would really enjoy the food there compared to the Bombay Club…..
That's the only reason I go to Nola, for the food and atmosphere! Otherwise I don't visit. Too hot during the summer, I go during the Christmas holidays.
I was just at Winco and I saw tiny little hot sauce bottles and I automatically thought of you 😂. If you don’t have any packets and don’t want to carry a big bottle those are perfect to put in a pocket
Really appreciate this video as I've been thinking of heading to New orleans as I really want to go on a steam boat! Your videos are the best for travel inspiration 👍
We’re going to New Orleans next week for vacation & I’ll definitely be booking a food tour 😃 thank you for this video it helped a LOT on where to go for food ❤
I wish you had showed the jambalaya at Court of Two Sisters. I would liked to have seen the difference in what Cajun jambalaya looked like. I LOVED LOVED LOVED the chargrilled oysters I had at Felix's in the FQ. They were so delish and you're right....DEFINITELY worth the wait.
as a cajun/creole myself i grew up cooking cajun jambalaya i prefer it because its rustic & robust compared to creole jambalaya. i guarantee you if you go to any restaurant outside of Louisiana and they have jambalaya on the menu it will always be creole jambalaya because its easier to make in my opinion
I don't know what the Cajun man talking about but my Grandmother and family never used tomato in our Gumbo which is called Creole Gumbo, not Cajun , I'm from New Orleans borned and Raise, We have a lot more Creole dishes, But doesn't put them out for fear other Cultures taking them , as we see here , if the Okra came from Africa,how can it be called Cajun ,
i understand this has been a conversation across Louisiana for the longest. i was born and raised in acadiana myself I eat it all but it is different depending on location. i know okra means gumbo im familiar with the African/Caribbean culture, the creole tomatoes, file', in the gumbo you name it..... we all grew up cooking it different like yall put file' in the gumbo while its cooking we dont do that we add it to our bowl if we want it. we dont put okra in it until we actually making okra gumbo we all just cooking stuff to our liking basically. i put smoked turkey necks, smoked rib peices, fresh shrimp, dry shrimp, smoked sausage , hen, tasso etc.. in my gumbo thats just how i was raised cooking and eating it
Your partner from Lafayette knows for a fact, food in Acadiana is much much more traditional Louisiana than what you get in the tourist areas in New Orleans. Not that New Orleans food isn't good... It is much better near Lafayette in Acadiana.
@@brandymcbride6534 you obviously haven't been able to compare the different Louisiana areas, The Acadiana area of Louisiana is were true Cajun food comes from... Not tourist food. Do some research.
@@2HEARMEOUT Why I didn't enjoy New Orleans? Because the city is unattractive and it's way too hot and humid for me. If you go outside of Bourbon Street, there's not much to see or do. Most of the places that I've seen look old and in poor conditions. Nothing against the people that lives there, the city itself just isn't my cup of tea.
Gotta agree. Might have been just the places we picked, but the icing on the cake for me was a restaurant around the FQ, went to the bathroom and saw the food being cooked outside on a grill snuggled in between 2 dumpsters, with both cooks with cigarettes hanging out their mouths.
Great stuff Jay, I would love to visit New Orleans someday but being from England I would likely need to combine it with a trip somewhere else, would you recommend anywhere? Perhaps Atlanta (my US geography is not great but assume that's the nearest big tourist city).
