May 19th, 2017
A long weekend in New Orleans, a food destination that has more places on my list than I could possibly get to. There simply isn’t enough meals in a long weekend for all the places I want to go. I am prepared for this trip, reservations have been made at Emeril’s and Atchafalaya and a slew of bookmarks in Yelp.
I have been to New Orleans a half-dozen times back in the 1990’s. Microsoft held their Tech Ed conferences in NOLA which I attended. I haven’t been back since and am looking forward to going back. A lot has happened since then, including hurricane Katrina. It should be interesting to see what has changed and what hasn’t and how it has changed.
Sophon is with me and my friend Cindy will be joining us! Hopefully, it won’t be too hot and it won’t rain too much!
After checking in to the JW Marriott, I turned on the TV while unpacking and getting myself organized. Most of the channels were broadcasting live coverage of the removal of the Lee Statue. I had heard that New Orleans had decided on taking down the confederate statues, I had no idea I would be arriving the day they would take down Robert E. Lee’s statue. I guess I wasn’t going to get a picture of that statue before it was taken down.
Our first meal was Emeril’s. I knew about Emeril’s from my days at Tech Ed but could never get a table. I watched him rise to become the king of Food Network – there was a time that it seemed like the food network should have renamed themselves to the “Emeril Channel”. Every time I turned it on, it was another Emeril Show. We were not disappointed. Food and service was top rate.
Afterwards we walked for a bit. Stopped at Andrew Jackson Square.
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