The Original Brown Derby II. 755 N. Claiborne Ave, New Orleans, Louisiana
One of New Orleans best and cheapest po boy, hotplate joints is no more. We were rolling on a second line today and noticed a track hoe sitting astride what had formerly been a neighborhood lynchpin.
Rest in peace Brown Derby II.
“You’re not from around here are you?”
The smiling elderly lady greets us as she walks in the front door of Bobby’s Seafood. We’ve been fingered as outsiders but a parking lot beatdown does not feel imminent; she’s just being friendly to strangers.
500 Po Boys: Donanelle’s Steakhouse in Hattiesburg
If you like whiskey barrel-cured tobacco and andouille sausage, St James Parish, Louisiana is where the conversation begins. Purists claim this is the one true place on earth where Perique, a spicy tobacco varietal is grown, and this same region is famous state-wide for producing some of the finest andouille sausage in all of Acadiana.
One fatal flaw kept Jason Seither’s seafood joint out in Harahan from entering the rarefied arena occupied by po boy hard-hitters like Heard Dat Kitchen and Rampart Food Store.
You can’t hang with the New Orleans heavyweights if you don’t take the time to press the bread on a hot plancha for a few seconds. The Dong Phuong loaf was fresh but cold as a parson’s cupboard at Epiphany.
Six cop cars are surrounding a beat-up Chevy with a couple tattooed crackers sitting in the front seats. Coppers have tactical weapons out and are yelling at the car’s occupants. My lunch spot, where the rumpus is taking place, has lost its appeal so I motor on downriver, and deeper into the lower 9th Ward.
Editor’s note: This post is from the ‘before-times.’ Orange Store is now a head shop that sells giant bluetooth speakers and dabbles in nearly-inedible po boys.
I was trying to save this report for much later in my 500 po boys series.
Village De ‘Lest neighborhood. New Orleans East.
They come to party.
How many neighborhood churches in New Orleans are vending $5 po boys, chargrilled oysters, and quarts of goat meat stew alongside raucous gambling booths?
Chef Larry G. Thompson Jr authors the finest shrimp po boy in New Orleans. Bear in mind, there are over 1000 places in our city selling shrimp po boys. Mr Shrimp rules them all.
rl reeves jr visits Commander’s Palace for his 500 po boys series
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