Netflix Street Food NOLA Episode

If you’re in the area and looking for a bite, sure. Nothing worth driving across town for.

Watched this and then smartly re-watched Bourdain’s The Layover to remember how good things used to be in NOLA.

Frady’s is a great corner store with good poboys. Hansen’s is a great place to spend $7 on a snoball when you can get one in Harahan for $1.50.

McNulty has his thumb on the pulse of the city as well as anyone, but that was a lot of Ms. Linda’s yakamein and lacking other spots.

No mention of anything in the CBD, mid-city, westbank, etc.

Street food should also be represented by successes like Zee’s Pizzeria and places like Gonzo’s Smokehouse.

That was a lazy portrayal of street food in New Orleans.

Lucky Dog. It needed to be mentioned.

Lived for several years within blocks of Frady's. Cheap breakfast plates (one called the grumpy old man special) and inexpensive po-boys. In the late afternnon, bunch of older guys are always sitting under the overhang nursing beers. Shrimp and oyster po-boys are very good, but they used to have odd hours (closed at 6pm even pre-pandemic). Original owner still lives across the street from it - his son runs it now.

Haven't seen the episode but decided to try this place since was in the Bywater and hungry with a half hour to kill.

It's a tiny place. They have a unique system. Whoever you order from goes and makes your food. When you see them again they have your food. I never seen that system before. Usually it's call outs. I guess it's similar to Domilise.
The roast beef was a good deal for under $10. It's a good flavor and make sure you get extra napkins.

Awesome thanks for the scouting report.
I’ll have to check it out. I always try and support local family owned businesses. The pics look great!

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Just finished it. Was pretty underwhelming. Crawfish as “street food”? Yeah, okay. Oh, and poboys. How original. I’m looking forward to the other episodes. Honestly didn’t need 80% of the show dedicated to yakamein.

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Not sure what y’all expected. Most don’t think of crawfish as street food, but most crawfish in Nola is done as a pop up in a boiling trailer setup - can kind of see it as street food in that regard. Poboys and Yakamein make sense as feature items plus Ms Linda has a good story, which is always an important part of the featured food in this series.

Really don’t know what other items they could have done. Beignets? Meh. Lucky Dog? Gross. Pizza? Not really special. Tacos? Not uniquely New Orleans. Maybe muffalettas, but Central Grocery has been closed since Ida. Maybe some Jazzfest vendors like Crawfish Monica or Crawfish Bread, but those guys typically only sell at Jazzfest and rarely do pop ups anywhere.

I thought the episode was fine overall.

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Honestly didn’t need 80% of the show dedicated to yakamein.

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The unending attempt to try and elevate this shite to the Pantheon of New Orleans cuisine is one of the stupidest things ever.

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Not sure what y’all expected.

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Just something different other than the same foods we see every time there's a show about New Orleans. I'm not going to claim to be some New Orleans food expert, but there has to be better "street food" options than what they showed. At least the yakamein was indeed a street food and is very authentic New Orleans but everything else was just a let down. I guess the truth is New Orleans doesn't have a street food scene.

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Most don’t think of crawfish as street food, but most crawfish in Nola is done as a pop up in a boiling trailer setup - can kind of see it as street food in that regard.

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I don't think anyone sees it as a street food and most is done in someone's backyard. It's the quintessential celebration meal in Louisiana.

Her winning the new orleans chopped episode was pretty hilarious