The weekend will be yours.
To properly commemorate New Orleans in all their Super Bowl-winning radiance, their native chef will be slinging $5 gumbo, $6 jambalaya and $8 Eggplant Pirogues With Shrimp Sauce. Consider it a Cajun touchdown.
Oh boy. There is much to eat on Saturday, when you can find endless food trucks and street carts all in one place—The Grilled Cheese Truck, The Sweets Truck and Chef Ludo Lefebvre's famed fried chicken are all present and accounted for.
It's the holiday you've been waiting all year for—no, not Valentine's Day. The Chinese New Year. Hit the bar at Philippe, where the Crown of Wealth (butterflied shrimp with sweet-shrimp mousse and crispy noodles) and Eye of the Tiger (sesame-crusted shrimp toast with quail egg yolk) are free in celebration.
So we're now at president #44, which means the time has come for some $4.40 cocktails in honor of them all. (Well, most.) At comme Ça, the Frost/Nixon reinvents the Last Word (gin, lime juice, Chartreuse, maraschino), and the Kennedy is a Fidel-friendly Cuba libre.
If on Tuesday you require the whole thing—beads, masks, $4 beer specials, forgetting your name—then South is your Mardi Gras bar of choice. Start displaying fake flu symptoms after lunch, so you can get here by 4pm...and then sleep it off on Wednesday.
