What would you consider a perfect picnic atmosphere French Q/CWD/Uptown

Crescent Park

City Park has a nice spot by the Sculpture Garden

Boiled crawfish from Schaefer’s, take to the Lakefront and eat. Or something from R&O’s


Muff and Barq’s from Central Grocery and a eat on the river. Or a po boy from Johnny’s

French Quarter - would probably grab a muffaletta from Central Grocery and sit at Woldenberg Park.

Marigny/Bywater area, slice from Pizza Delicious, one of their pastas, and go over to Crescent Park.

MidCity - Crawfish and a daiquiri or a po boy from Bevi and go to City Park.

Uptown - St. James and the Wine Seller for cheese, meat, baguette, wine and go to the Fly or Audubon Park or even Danneel Park.

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looking for suggestions for laid back, cost effective, locals things to do and eat, somewhat akin to a laid back picnic approach

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Bacchanal - Would give you the feel of a picnic. Although that is probably not the cheapest option.

You could always get some cheese from St. James Cheese Co. and head to Audubon Park, The Fly, or Crecent City Park.

Thanks for the suggestions. We hit up Audubon Park briefly on Tuesday and also Cooter Brown's and Jacques-Imo's, both places now crossed off on my bucket list. (Cafe Degas still on my list) Bayona was also crossed off on this day.

Wednesday was all City Park. Brought some fruit and picked up two banh mi from Mr. Bubbles on Canal. Ate those on a park bench under large oaks, surrounded by ducks and water, which was an absolutely perfect setting, then hit up the sculpture garden. Turns out Wednesdays at the botanical gardens are free to LA residents so we took advantage of that as well. Also took a train ride even though we'd already walked and seen the entire park. It was a nice ending to the day.

We wanted to go to the Fair Grounds for the horses, but after multiple calls and checking their website, I couldn't figure out if races were happening.

Thanks for the recommendations, and I wanted to reply because I love hearing about people's experiences after asking advice here.

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Bacchanal

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+1

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It's pretty remote.

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