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travel

Liuzza’s By the Track (New Orleans)

Our buddy Jay picked us up at the airport and headed straight to Liuzza’s By the Track based on his recommendation. This place is cool. It’s very laid back and they have a bar. But I guess there’s always a bar in New Orleans.

Their signature dish is the BBQ Shrimp PoBoy. But it’s not really a sandwich. It does have bread, but it’s really a plate of shrimp with their heavy rich buttery garlic sauce over bread. It’s good, but way too rich for me. Plus I’m not supposed to eat so much shrimp because of the gout.

I really did love the Oyster PoBoy. I can’t tell if it’s really anything special here, but I know it’s just good.

I feel like I’d come here a lot if I lived in New Orleans.

Now to be clear, there is another Liuzza’s in New Orleans that not related and has a different menu (Italian food and Muffalettas). This one By the Track is more PoBoys and Fried Seafood plates. Who is Liuzza? Why did two restaurants name themselves after her?

Liuzza’s By the Track – 1518 N Lopez St. New Orleans, LA 70119

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concert/event restauranting

Great Jones Cafe

I just went to catch my friends Marcellus Hall & the Hostages at the KCRW CMJ party tonight. Also saw Hands and the Duke Spirit. It was nice to have a few beers and bands after a long day in the office.

Then we went to Great Jones Cafe. No Jambalaya today, but the Gumbo was great! And the Jalapeno Cornbread with butter was great!

It was expensive for Cajun. Gumbo was $17.99, but still good. I just gotta remember I’m rich …maybe not in my wallet, but in my soul.

A super bonus was that Mark Ibold from my favorite band ever (Pavement) was bar tending at Great Jones Cafe. Marcellus said he knew him way back in the Matador days and before. I tried to get Marce to get the guy to take a photo with me. It didn’t happen. I was too scared. I did go up to shake his hand. It’s weird. I’m just realizing now that I might have met him a couple times before.

Great Jones Cafe - 54 Great Jones St (btwn Lafayette & Bowery) New York, NY 10012

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travel

Jan’s Cajun Restaurant

We headed on down to our double-wide trailer in Lafitte. Sam and I decided to get some real food at the nearby Jan’s Cajun Restaurant. Meals there are included in some of the local fishing charters.

We split a Seafood Gumbo ($6.50) and a large Oyster Po Boy ($10.50), which we heard had jumped to $30 in some parts since the oil spill. The Oyster Po Boy was big. We wondered if it was actually two, but they cut it up for us into four pieces.

There were two large men that asked us if we were film makers …maybe because of our hair? They were working for BP, previously commercial fisherman. That’s really messed up how you end up working for the company that fucked up your life, family and future. But I suppose you do it because you have no choice. It is all for the sake of your life, family and future.

They filled us in a bit on how’s it going out there. And gave us a tip on the House of Seafood Buffet in Bush, Louisiana. The way the big black man made it sound, it was like Alice in Wonderland –a huge fabled building out in the middle of nowhere, where they charter out-of-towners to and serve shrimps, seafood, rabbit, gator and everything else imaginable. I later asked my friend and he told that I shouldn’t step foot Bush. Supposedly one scary KKK town. At the same time, I’m really intrigued.

Speaking back to Jan’s Cajun Restaurant, we enjoyed our meal. It was just good local food. Seems kinda like the place you’d eat at if you were in Twin Peaks. But it made sense to me.

Jan’s Cajun Restaurant – 4831 Jean Lafitte Blvd. Lafitte, LA 70067

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street

GOODS Food Truck

I forgot that I stumbled by this place the other night, until I saw these photos on my camera. So the GOODS Food Truck is now open. It takes over that old yellow abandoned ice cream trailer that my friends always said they wanted to set up a fried fish shack. Instead 3RD Ward took actual initiative. I did stumble by this place a week before, when they were practicing making burgers and fries. I was quite disappointed in the menu. I expected something fancy and mind blowing like a whole roast pig from these art people.

Anyway, so I stumbled upon them Thursday night. There were a lot of people working in the truck. I looked at the menu and it everything seemed expensive and ordinary (hot dog, burger, fries). Then they told me the special of the day was Gumbo for $8.50. Alright I say! Okay, that’ll be $9.25. Oh right. Then after tip, it’s kinda a lot for a small cup of soup, but it was very meaty with chicken and sausage. I liked it. Expensive, but good. Oh, I get it. Like their name.

GOODS Food Truck – corner of Metropolitan and Lorimer, Williamsburg Brooklyn NY 11211