re: Need an Oxymoron-a Good, Inexpensive, non-touristy spot for a quick FQ dinner

Tell us about green goddess and also your thoughts on the ghost tour

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Tell us what you had to eat and an overall review of the place.

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My bad, didn't get to it last night.

The Green Goddess is a kind of hard to find restaurant in the quarter. It is tucked in exchange pl, by Bienville. (next to the Pelican club, I know some are familar with that place.

The Green Goddess is a very tiny restaurant.

Another thing is, it has Vegan and vegiterian options for non-meat eaters. I didn't really go for those because I am a carnivore. Another thing is the menu is relatively short. It looks big, then you realize that three pages are of cocktails and wines.


shrimp and grits(top left)


crawfish boil salad (top right)


bison and bacon meatloaf (bottom left)

We didn't order the actual tasting menu, but we ordered a sampler promotion the chef was doing a special on.
Which included a crawfish boil salad, which was really good. Spicy boiled crawfish, corn and potatoes topped on greens with a homemade dressing.

For entrees I got the Shrimp and Grits and she got the meatloaf. Both were very good, albeit slightly different looking than the pictures shown above.

The shrimp had something of a BBQ shrimp thing going on, but with a different kind of seasoning totally. I couldn't place the herbs, but it was good. The bison meatloaf was excellent, and the added taste of bacon brought out a really good flavor. I probably liked this more than my shrimp and grits. I really enjoyed the bacon wrapped asparagus too, mainly because it is something I make on the grill(finish in oven) every Thanksgiving.

I wasn't a fan of the desserts we were offered with the deal.
which comprised of Ravioli made from beats, with a pomegranate filling and an avocado paste, and bleu cheese stuffed, ham wrapped figs. I like sweet and savory, but not for dessert, I thought that was a miss.

We wound up getting real dessert at the Coffee Pot on St Peters.

I would like to go back and try the andoullie encrusted gulf fish.

Keep in mind that the menu changes a lot and what you see online, may not prepare you for what you will be offered when you go.


As far as the ghost tour, I enjoyed it. It wasn't really scary, but mainly told of interesting tales of violence against slaves. (A 1820's Josep Mengel type lived in what is now Nic Cage's house and would dissect living slaves)
A lot of stories about the yellow fever pandemic. I didn't know the reason Orleans is the widest street in the quarter was so that it could have carriages coming and going from the church to the cemetery all day.

One of the most interesting tid-bits was that JFK and family visited New Orleans in the late 1920's and stayed at the Cornstalk fence guest house (now B&B) while at the same time Lee Harvey Oswald was going to school at McDonugh 13 which is on the same block.

Mostly it as a history tour. But it was fun and entertaining.

Dessert at the Coffee pot consisted of sharing a Cheesecake, which was pretty good.

Saw that Guy Fieri ate there, but I don't remember seeing that episode of DDD.