re: Going to New Orleans this summer (Please Advise)

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August is probably the worst time to visit Nola

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Yeah, the weather sucks especially if you're coming from the Bay area. By August we're used to the oppressive heat and actually enjoy more stuff around town than we do in July.

There are some advantages - Our anniversary is in August and there are always dining specials to be had during Coolinary month. Antoine's usually does a lunch special with price tied to the year (2 or 3 courses for $23 for example). Restaurants make their money during convention season, which ain't summer, when they just try to cover most of their costs and survive till fall. Our favorites include GW Fins, Peche and Gianna.

Summer also brings hotel specials. Though we live here, a couple times we've done a long weekend in the quarter and got fat, dumb and happy for a few days, taking in great food and music, and taking the streetcar uptown once we've had our fill of the Quarter, Frenchmen St. and Warehouse District. There used to be a few places with 25 cent martinis at lunch in the summer.

White Linen Night and Dirty Linen Night (weekend after) can be fun.

Satchmo Summer Fest has food and music. Red Dress Run is more of a French Quarter pub crawl that blends into dirty linen night later that night, for those able to last that long.