Just another Tuesday in N'awlins

I think we took it a bit easy on Tuesday, as I don't have too much written down.  I am quite positive that all of the walking and fresh air since we arrived on Friday finally started to catch up with us.  We may have left later than usual on this day.  I do know that we had our most delicious cajun meal of the trip on this day! 

Some of the places we visited or dined at were found in a magazine called Where (which we got from the concierge desk at a Hilton).  I would peruse the pages and see if anything jumped out at me.  When it came to eating lunch or dinner, I looked for ones that referenced the cajun or creole cooking that New Orleans and Louisiana are known for and when it came to breakfast one morning, I looked for something close, that served what we like to eat and would be a reasonable price.  We learned of a free music concert in Where that we attended on Wednesday nite and about City Park.  It was extremely valuable!  BIG thanx to the visitor's bureau lady in Riverwalk Shopping Center who told us about it and where to score one (she was all out)!!

On this day, we set out to find the Gumbo Shop on St. Peter.

We were able to sit outside in the courtyard (LOVE!) and this was, by far, our best meal!!!!  We both got the combination platter:  Shrimp Creole, Jambalaya and Red Beans & Rice; however, Chris substituted Crawfish Etouffee for the RB&R.  I highly recommend eating here ~~ OFTEN!  If we weren't ones who really like to try out different places, we would have dined here several more times.  We even shared this "find" with a woman we chatted with at our resort one morning while getting coffee.  She was on a girls' trip and was thrilled to get a glowing recommendation!

Later in the evening, we walked over to the Harrah's casino.  We aren't gamblers, but wanted to hear the Vegas sounds of the slot machines!  We made a pretty quick walk-through and then headed back out toward the south side of the French Quarter.  We ended up at the Crescent City Brewhouse for a microbrew (they are the only microbrewery in all of New Orleans) and a bit of live jazz.  Unfortunately, the band finished within minutes of our arrival.  So we had to drink beers that we didn't like all that much without the benefit of relaxing jazz to help it go down a bit easier.  If we had been hungry and/or if it hadn't been so late, we may have ordered an appetizer or two and that would have made a world of difference in the taste, I really believe.