Bouche* (#118, 7/12/2009)
This place had the best cheese plate that I’ve ever had, as well as some other decent dishes and a cool set-up. Unfortunately, I tried to go on New Year’s Eve and they had a $100/person special, no other choices – and there weren’t any people in there, good business plan, morons. Forget that, we stood up and left. Even on the cheese plate stops, it had some of the worst service ever – though my worst service experience of all-time was at a New Orleans McDonald’s…Me: Yeah, I’ll take a #1; McD: Nah, we aint’ got that.
EDIT: This was located on Tchoupitoulas in the CBD; didn’t last long, for obvious reasons.
Zea* (#115, 6/15/2009)
This was located on St. Charles Avenue in the Garden District (same place that was Bravo back in the day). It still exists in Jefferson Parish, bot nothing in Orleans.
Nola Grocery* (#114, 6/3/09)
Nola Grocery was an excellent hole-in-the-wall grocery-type store with a deli, located on Andrew Higgins Drive, between Tchoupitoulas and S. Peters. It had great shrimp po-boys and pretty darn good cheeseburgers. I used to drop in for two cheeseburgers fairly regularly. It wasn’t what you would call a clean place, but still a good stop. They always had other weird items for sale as well – such as brass knuckles, mace and other self-protection items that I’m not sure were completely legal. Maury was the curly-haired guy who was always working there, not sure if he owned it or not, but you can always see him at pretty much any music festival in town. The Butcher bought the place so it could expand.