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Yahoo Food: 40 Biggest U.S. Cities, Ranked By Food
Posted on 12/16/14 at 3:44 pm
Posted on 12/16/14 at 3:44 pm
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New Orleans number 1.
New Orleans number 1.
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1. New Orleans
Population: 1,189,866 (MSA)
New Orleans is a city drenched in its cuisine, rooted in the culture of setting a pot of gumbo on the front porch and inviting over the masses or throwing a street-wide crawfish boil on a muggy spring day. Its seasons are centered, not around the calendar, but around food, which is arguably easy to do when your seasons have more 90+ degree days than below 70, but it’s even easier when January 6th kicks off Mardi Gras/king cake season, Christmas means epic Reveillon feasts, fall ensures a few alligator sausages in the Superdome, summer brings the first taste of sno-balls and the annual closing of Casamento’s, and spring starts with the first crawfish boil. Its food pride extends inexpressibly beyond those signature dishes that everyone knows: its crispy, golden-fried oyster po’boys, award-winning fried chicken platters, and piping-hot beignets. Oh, also their spicy, blackened redfish, rich gumbo, and even richer crawfish étouffée. And don’t forget those buttery pralines or the smoky jambalaya or the Monday night-staple of red beans & rice.
This might be the point when you’re wondering if there are good restaurants in the city, not just a rabid fanbase of hungry locals. Well, hate-reading New Yorker, the answer is yes. Five of the oldest restaurants in the country are here and still serving, and they aren’t just boring standbys that should’ve closed their doors long ago: Commander’s Palace is helmed by a James Beard-winning chef, while Antoine’s is still awing with its never-been-revealed recipe for oysters Rockefeller, which they invented (yep, you’ve only eaten fakes elsewhere). And new(er) guys like Donald Link’s fish-to-tail Peche, John Besh and Alon Shaya’s pizza-haven Domenica, and Philip Lopez’s incredibly inventive Square Root, one of the best restaurants in America, keep things inventive. It would be an unmitigated task to start naming all of the tiny Creole, Cajun, Vietnamese, and Italian spots that fill in the huge gap between the new all-stars and the grand dames, but that’s why New Orleans visitors have created quite the cliche when they return from a visit: you could eat all day, all week in New Orleans and never get a bad meal or fully grasp the cuisine melting pot that fills the city.
Oh, and perhaps it’s worth noting that New Orleans does all that with an actual population of 343,829… without its MSA, the city wouldn’t have been even close to large enough for this list.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 3:48 pm to Reames239
NOLA is not better than NYC
Posted on 12/16/14 at 3:49 pm to Salmon
Email the writer. I am just passing it along.
For what it is worth, I agree.
I would say that NOLA probably has better "cheap" food than NYC does though. I am sure NYC has about 20 commanders palaces though.
For what it is worth, I agree.
I would say that NOLA probably has better "cheap" food than NYC does though. I am sure NYC has about 20 commanders palaces though.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 3:50 pm to Reames239
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I would say that NOLA probably has better "cheap" food than NYC does though.
uh no
Posted on 12/16/14 at 3:51 pm to Salmon
Never been to NYC brother man. As far as I am concerned, I would rather a Parkway Bakery poboy over a bowl of noodles from chong over in China town or a slice.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 3:55 pm to Salmon
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NOLA is not better than NYC
It has a better local food tradition (foodway) than NYC. Better overall selection, variety, and cuisine? Probably not.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 3:56 pm to Salmon
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NOLA is not better than NYC
Preach
Posted on 12/16/14 at 3:59 pm to TigerHam85
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NOLA is not better than NYC
Per capita it is.
Having lived in both, and still having family in both, I feel completely confident in that.
This post was edited on 12/16/14 at 4:01 pm
Posted on 12/16/14 at 4:03 pm to hogfly
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Probably not.
Probably?
Let me know when Nola has anything that can come close to swinging a stick at Per Se, Daniel or Eleven Madison Park.
NYC > Nola in every single category when it comes to food.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 4:03 pm to Salmon
NOLA = GOAT
NOLA >>>>>>> Houston >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Shreveport
Salmon's just mad
ETA And Ham too
NOLA >>>>>>> Houston >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Shreveport
Salmon's just mad
ETA And Ham too
This post was edited on 12/16/14 at 4:04 pm
Posted on 12/16/14 at 4:05 pm to TigerHam85
You sound mad. It's just some BS yahoo article. Relax brah you should be happy with your hometown state getting recognition.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 4:05 pm to TigerHam85
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NYC > Nola in every single category when it comes to food.
Po Boys!!!!!
Posted on 12/16/14 at 4:05 pm to Jax-Tiger
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Portland is #5.
I decided a few days ago, that this might be my next trip
Posted on 12/16/14 at 4:08 pm to TigerWise
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Relax brah you should be happy with your hometown state getting recognition
Meh, he's a Texican now
Posted on 12/16/14 at 4:08 pm to hiltacular
quote:I am sure there is a place that does a Po Boy just as good. Meat on french bread, VOILA!!
Po Boys!!!!!
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