re: Best Non-Tourist Trap New Orleans Restaurants and Why?

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thanks Guys. Like I said all suggestions are appreciated. Jazz Fest is this weekend and I'm wanting to hit a few of the "not so well-known by out of towner and local favorite spots". Tried to avoid lazy terms that time. LOL

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start making reservations yesterday, im sure all the places listed here are gonna be packed too.

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I like Napolean House for lunch.

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I wouldn't call it a tourist trap but I definitely think of it as a touristy place. Muff is pretty good but haven't liked anything else there.

The days of places tourists don't know about are gone. When I was still living uptown (97-02) places in the area would get packed during jazzfest and it just wasn't locals. Food blogs, food sites have done away with hole in the walls no one knows about.

Every place mentioned in this thread is talked about on chow.com

Jazz Fest is different.

A Normal weekend you won't find many tourists in these places outside the really well known eateries. Commanders, Emerils, etc.

There are so many people in town for jazz fest you are bound to run into tourists. A lot of them have been coming for years. They just know what's good.

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Just because alot of tourist visit a place does it make it bad? Just because a restaurant is in a touristy area, does that make it a tourist trap?

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Here's an example - Mother's. Do I think Mother's is great? No. But it doesn't deserve 1/2 the opprobrium that's heaped upon it by the F&D Board cognoscenti. If Mother's was just some local po-boy shop nobody would have any strong opinion on it one way or another. But because it's well-known and full of tourists, it gets criticized to high heaven. To some people, the fact that tourists like it somehow makes it much worse than it would be if it was half empty all the time.