Be sure to ask for extra bread to soak up the butter.įor lunch we stopped by Turkey and the Wolf, a kitschy sandwich shop that was very busy even for a Monday afternoon, and with good reason - their sandwiches and lunch cocktails were delicious! Before leaving, we wanted to catch up with our Instagram friends Matt and Beau, two New Orleans lifestyle bloggers (and the inspiration for so many of our recommendations). We met them for afternoon daiquiris at the charming Cane and Table in the French Quarter. They were complete sweethearts and it was so nice to see that they were as adorable and friendly in person as they are online. Do yourself a favor and check out their blog, ProbablyThis. Our final meal was at Cochon Butcher, the sandwich store connected to Cochon where we’d had dinner at a few nights prior. After sampling po’boys, gumbo, jambalaya and beignets, the last iconic New Orleans food we had to check off our list was the muffaleta, a grilled Italian sandwich which we inhaled within minutes of it hitting the table. We considered hitting up the Fruit Loop for goodbye nightcaps, but after three days of essentially nonstop drinking, we settled for a more appropriate vice - Café du Monde for one more powdery plate of beignets.Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop is a confusing dive bar to serve as the subject of a review like this one. The evolution of the dive bar over the past decade or so has inched it closer to the Bourbon Street template, complete with mystery purple frozen drink dispensed from an endlessly whirring machine behind the bar. And in one sense, any sense of encroachment of “tourism” on a place like this might be a death sentence for an authentic dive bar.īut this is a building erected in the 1770s. This is a location with a Wikipedia page that includes words like ‘contraband’ and ‘illegal seizures.’ Ghost tours rotate around the location, supposedly one of the most haunted buildings in New Orleans (high bar).