re: Smokey Bones building on Siegen Lane has sold for $2.3M

PIMP your point about the tourists is very much on target - I'm with you that they have not only spent the money on the food in NOLA but then gone home and told everybody about it, hence a significant reason that the restaurant scene in NOLA has survived the Katrina aftermath. Without a rebound on the tourism front, a lot of restaurants with proud and long traditions would have closed because the population alone can't afford to save them all by eating out 5 nights a week....

i don't really think cajun as much as i do creole when i think of NOLA .. not too many thick cajun accents running around the big easy, despite what hollywood thinks .. remember that movie with dennis quaid and ellen barkin ?? quaid was a new orleans cop with a pea soup thick cajun accent ...

The food was here before the tourists....that is one of the things that brings the here.

I agree, but I would like a couple more great cajun places...KPaul, Cochon, and Bon Ton don't fit that Prejean's mold that I like in Lafayette.

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The food was here before the tourists....that is one of the things that brings the here.

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Correct...all restaurants outside the downtown area do not depend on tourist dollars...thats a ridiculous assertion. There are many restaurants downtown that would still be here too...Galatoire's is too beloved to ever die. THe COurt of Two Sisters on the other hand would die without the tourists.

In the year or two following Katrina, hardly and tourists were coming down and the NOLA restaurant scene was experiencing a huge rebirth with places like Iris and Cochon opening up and almost all of our beleoved establishments coming back with huge success. No doubt the tourists play a role in many downtown place, but I assure you Clancy's, Dante's Kitchen or One do not depend on tourist dollars.

Sheer parody

"I choose to ignore you" -the common response when someone has taken your lunch money and left you standing at the curb.

This board is rife with posters from New Orleans bashing Baton Rouge. You seem to believe that you have some Divine Right to go unchallenged with your simplistic observations. That is why others here speak of your arrogance. Not to be mean, but because it is an observed trait. It rankles you that others have opinions...

There is at least ten of you on every board.You have your narrative, you stick to it with blind obediance and you get angry and shrill when challenged.

Yats believe these false little orthodoxies just like people of every other city. I believe the residents of NOLA seek solace in their food, because a sober appraissal of their "real" situation would be utterly depressing. A little realism on my part, does not equal an "attack". It is an opinion, not warfare. Quit your crying, you delicate flower of lawyer, and be a man.

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A nice Baton Rouge hidden gem out in the burbs...

Maison Lacour and chef Mike Jetty.

There are many more of these places then you guys acknowledge.
Maybe the solution is spending your dollar here rather than driving to NOLA as we all do.

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Maybe the solution is spending your dollar here rather than driving to NOLA as we all do.

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Welcome back to the discussion...I am glad you are done with your personal attacks and plan on contributing something intelligent to this discussion.

What you mentioned is likely one of several solutions that could help enhance the BR dining scene. How much more could it be helped on a daily basis though by people choosing local over chain? College kids aside, of course.

Maison Lacour is on my list to go to as well as LA Laginappe...both seem like good places (I hope better than Juban's).

Nevermind, I thought you could converse about food intelligently.

Yeh, let me tell you walking on Royal and Chartres near Jackson Square is really scary.