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but would be served by a better one.

1)The O' Henry's on Carrollton. It wouldn't even have to be a four star restaurant, just some place where you could sit on the upstairs deck, eat some oysters, a decent burger and drink a few beers.

2) Just about anything around the Bulldog on Magazine. When the best eats in that hood are subpar take out crawfish, you know you are in a culinary wasteland.

I will nominate several offenders in my immediate area:

- Cannon's
- Superior Grill (there was a really good place there briefly sometime after
Que Sera)
- Pascal's Manale (OK, it's not totally crappy, but it could be much better)
- Copeland's St. Charles/Nap. currently hosting...nothing! (word is that the
new hospitals will be built before there's a new restaurant there)


- too numerous to name in the Quarter of course

Completely agree with the O'Henry's. Terrible.

All the West End waterfront places that either suck or are empty.

Jesse wrote:Completely agree with the O'Henry's. Terrible.

All the West End waterfront places that either suck or are empty.

Jesse, you just made me think of Landry's (Lakefront). It and the former Joe's Crab Shack sucked bilge water, big time. It's a decent looking place with an amazing view. The menu could use some major work.

This is a bit off topic, but is anything going on in West End? I haven't been out that way in quite a while.

Jeeves wrote:Jesse, you just made me think of Landry's (Lakefront). It and the former Joe's Crab Shack sucked bilge water, big time. It's a decent looking place with an amazing view. The menu could use some major work.

I think that the Landry's properties have the worst imagineable food I've ever encountered.... and ALWAYS GREAT LOCATIONS!

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Jeeves wrote:Jesse, you just made me think of Landry's (Lakefront). It and the former Joe's Crab Shack sucked bilge water, big time. It's a decent looking place with an amazing view. The menu could use some major work.

I agree. This would be my number one choice on the list. Sumbitches are sitting on Lake Ponchatrain and they are probably serving frozen northern seafood or worse, Asian stuff. Over prices as all hell too.

I tried two times to go there a year or so to sit at the bar for drinks and appetizers. The first time I actually got served but it was a cluster with service. The second time I just wanted an Abita amber, but I sat there for 10 minutes while the not all that busy bartenders kept finding other things to do besides serve customers. I did much better at DBA.

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Jesse wrote:This is a bit off topic, but is anything going on in West End? I haven't been out that way in quite a while.

Nothing at all. I had heard that any new construction right there over water would almost be un-insurable.
Seems the city could possibly work out a deal where they repave that lot and let a restaurant open up over land right there, but I am sure that would take too much effort on someone at city hall.

Nothing at all. I had heard that any new construction right there over water would almost be un-insurable.
Seems the city could possibly work out a deal where they repave that lot and let a restaurant open up over land right there, but I am sure that would take too much effort on someone at city hall.

That's so sad, BTG.

(Worked downtown from '83-'85, and used to love calling on clients over there....and playing while I was at it!)

Rarely got the opportunity to play there at night, living in Slidell and out here in the middle of nowhere.

I do have to correct myself slightly about West End. Coconut Beach has been re-opened for a few years now, so I guess if you wanted some chicken fingers or bad burgers, you could eat there.
I still do enjoy going out there to drink beer and hang with my friends, but it is just not the same as when I could ride my bike over from Metairie and cross the little bridge over the 17th st. canal.

bam bam wrote:Just about anything around the Bulldog on Magazine. When the best eats in that hood are subpar take out crawfish, you know you are in a culinary wasteland.

You don't like Byblos? Granted, it's overrated, but that doesn't mean it sucks.

With respect to Big Fisherman, it's obnoxious and over-priced, but I think they put out some pretty good crawfish. Who's better uptown, in terms of take out? In my estimation, to do better/comparable you have to go to JP, west bank, Bucktown, or mid city. Uptown, other than Big Fisherman, all you have is Rouse's or those crappy Viet joints.