New Orleans for a trade show for a week...

[Hamilbet]

...So Ill be there for a week with my boss/owner of the company.

I'm looking for some knowledgeable local help to plan dinners and activities for the evening. Probably from like 5-10pm.
We are both drinkers but he is not a partier. (60's) BUT he loves bourbon and wine.

I was looking for some of the more upscale (or non dive) places to take him. Maybe a bourbon tasting and dinner. A show of some-kind. I don't know.

The only time I was there, I was in my 20's and was there to party as much as possible for as cheap as possible. Well it on the company card this week!

Anything you may have done while you were there or a place you really liked, let me know so I can look into it. Im trying to impress the guy. The last time one of my coworkers took him to a trade show on the west coast all he did was bust his balls when they got back about how he had nothing planned for him and he didnt even have to pay.

 

[CHOPTALK]

Dragos and Pat Obrians

 

[Hamilbet]

Dragos look more like his speed. I just saw we will be there for St.Pattys day... shit show!!!

 

[Hamilbet]

Except its in a Hilton. Boooo. Looking for stuff less touristy. I travel a ton and I know to try and get off the beaten path when possible.

 

[HotRocks]

I LOVE this place, if you like oysters sit at the bar to the right when you walk in, they shuck em for you, I go there every time I'm in N.O. at least twice, nice place too, but always a wait

Acme Oyster House
724 Iberville St, (first street on the right when you start walking down Bourbon if I'm not mistaken)
http://www.acmeoyster.com/ourmenu

 

[HotRocks]

And Mothers, my mouth is watering just thinking about it, its more of a local place but awesome food, nothing fancy for sure

Its around Harrahs, I walked there many times from the casino

 

[CHOPTALK]

Except its in a Hilton. Boooo. Looking for stuff less touristy. I travel a ton and I know to try and get off the beaten path when possible.

The original location is in meterie about 15 mins from the French quarter. It's not a tourist trap that where the locals go

 

[G.MONEY]

Not from there but have been there a few times..I'm more of a foodie and would highly recommend Mr. B's right in the french quarter the BEST BBQ Shrimp i have ever had....There maybe better but it is a more upscale restaurant and make reservations

 

[Hamilbet]

Thanks guys. Really appreciate the tips. There are just soooo many options.

I am trying to find a bourbon tasting or a place with flights. I did some googling and found maybe 1. Any ideas?

 

[wizardofodd]

Dragos and Acme Oyster are my 2 favs.

Charbroilled at Dragos, Raw at Acme.

Tons of stuff around though, seafood of course, cajun etc...
Crawfish is in season. You want to get the best place locals go, I'd recommend Cajun's Seafood, they have about 4 locations.

 

[halekulani]

ew
nola has so much better to offer

high end food - august, stella
better than average - herbsaint, coquette, dante's kitchen, commander's (sunday brunch only, make reservations), bacchanals (good for sitting outside; great for wine ppl; this is a LOCALS place), boucherie [ this list is only 1/100th of places available in nola]
seafood - gw fins
home/comfort southern food - jacques imos
poboys - parkway tavern
sandwiches - stein's deli (best reuben i've ever had), cochon butcher (not to be confused with the restaurant cochon next door)

 

[Hamilbet]

Thanks, that was very thorough

 

[CHOPTALK]

Dragos and Acme Oyster are my 2 favs.

Charbroilled at Dragos, Raw at Acme.

Tons of stuff around though, seafood of course, cajun etc...
Crawfish is in season. You want to get the best place locals go, I'd recommend Cajun's Seafood, they have about 4 locations.

This guy is correct .

Dont you dare leave New Orleans without getting some crawfish. This is prime season for them.

So are the oysters. You gotta get the chargrilled oysters at dragos. It is called the best bite of food in Louisiana

 

[CHOPTALK]

As a matter of fact I'm going to dragos tomorrow
You can go to YouTube and watch some videos about dragos

 

[Hamilbet]

Dragos and Pat Obrians

We hit up the outdoor courtyard at Pat Obrians today. Good call. Was nice to get off the main streets and chill for a spell. Thanks again

 

[Hamilbet]

Dragos and Acme Oyster are my 2 favs.

Charbroilled at Dragos, Raw at Acme.

Tons of stuff around though, seafood of course, cajun etc...
Crawfish is in season. You want to get the best place locals go, I'd recommend Cajun's Seafood, they have about 4 locations.

You guys werent kidding. This place is a foodies wet dreams. I took some potential clients to Acme for dinner. First of all, GREAT raw oysters. Super fresh and clean. Had the Smokehouse version as well...Again Great. And I am from the east coast and know my seafood.

Funny story. So its a group of 6 of us and roll up around 6. The place is packed and a line more than a block long. I have some real potential whale clients, so I tell them to get in line, I walk up to the front and slip the young girl workin the door a hundo. Her face was priceless. So I grab the other guys and we walk right in. A few people in line start raising a stink about cutting, we all ignore them but that girl yells at the without missing a beat "Its the owners brother, what am I supposed to do". Needless to say I closed a great deal over beers and oysters.

 

[ML Dog]

Are you even actually going to go to any meetings at all?

Or actually attend anything that has to do with The Conference, the reason you were sent there, at all?

I ask because some people tried to send me to a Conference in Vegas one time and I registered, got a Badge with my name on it and a plastic bag with some stuff in it and a Map of the Exhibit Halls stapled to a few pages that had a Schedule of Lectures on them but then all I did was get drunk and gamble for 3 days and wound up not going to anything at all that had to do with The Conference.

 

[DNoonan]

Well done all around! Good use of a hundy for sure if you landed a new client over it AND saved yourself a bunch of time and made the hostess' day

 

[ML Dog]

Fixed it for you:




QUOTE=Hamilbet:

Funny story. So its a group of 6 of us and roll up around 6.

The place is packed and a line more than a block long.

I have some real potential whale clients, so I tell them to get in line, I walk up to the front and slip the young girl workin the door a hundo.

Her face was priceless.

So I grab the other guys and we walk right in.

A few people in line start raising a stink about cutting so I turn back locate the biggest one of them a guy with a scroungy ass beard and arms and legs like Fleshy MeatPoles and basically no neck whatsoever just a round fat volleyball-looking head covered in droopy gelatinous pale white sludge-slime, and I punch him right in the head.

A girl yells out "YOU BASTARD THAT DUDE IS PAYING FOR MY DINNER" and tries to kick me in the balls but I swerve so she whiffs completely and falls ass-flat on the nasty Bourbon Street ground thats covered with hundreds of years of dried up beer and pee and even worse things.

About half of the people in the line start to Cheer. My Clients are stunned. Their Mouths are agape.

I redeem myself by plying them with Hurricanes & Oysters.

I'll never forget this night.

End QUOTE Hamilbet.

 

[ML Dog]

And just to Pre-Empt Chop coming in here and (accurately) telling me ACME Oyster House ain't ON Bourbon St. I know that.

Its close enough though to where the line could have, theoretically at least, extended to Bourbon.

And Especially if the guy who got punched was really REALLY Fat.


I lived in the Quarter for, like, 7 months.

Only really remember a few days of that tho, Blackout Drunk and/or wasted on Purple Drank the rest of the time thus no recollection but...

...I do recall where Acme was.....and presumably still is.

I think its next to Absinthe House.

Maybe...Oplousas Street?

Wherever it is......its on one of the very first streets when you come into The Quarter on Bourbon St. from Canal.