Ty in the French Quarter
Home to the world's biggest and best known Mardi Gras celebration, New Orleans is a city rich with history. There's the wild frivolity of Bourbon Street, gorgeous plantation homes in the Garden District and restaurants for every tastebud. It's sweet intoxication you feel dining in a lush, gaslighted patio surrounded by palmetto fronds and the perfume of sweet olive trees on one night, while on another it's a rowdy restaurant around a big table spread over with newspaper, piled high with shiny-red boiled crabs, with a bunch of loud friends up to their elbows in crab-eating delirium and toasting the good times with beer glasses covered in crabfat fingerprints. Jazz playing in the background...
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