Before traveling to New Orleans in beginning of April, I emailed my colleague Lolis Eric Elie http://www.loliselie.com/Info/infoframeset.html, one of the producers of the new hit HBO series Treme, a fellow food writer, and New Orleans Native, and asked him for his take on the must visit restaurants near my Charles Street hotel for a guy who cooks and writes about soul food. Lois emailed back a list of places including Willie Mae's, Dooky Chase, Loretta's, and Fay's Take-Out and Honey Whip which unlike the others, is across the Mississippi in Gretna, a suburb of New Orleans. Before I made it to any of his recommendations, on my first full day in New Orleans I did what I almost always do when traveling; I go jogging for the dual purpose of staying in shape and doing a culinary reconnaissance of the area where I am staying. Hobnobbers at 139 Carondelet Street was one of the first places I found just around the corner from my Charles Street Hotel. It was a hole in the wall restaurant tucked in an alley and attached to sport bar. It was also like a lot of places I found in the center of New Orleans' downtown hotel tourist district--white owned and black worked especially the cooks and wait staff. The restaurants bargain prices keeps the place hopping during its hours of operation 7am to 2 pm. The place had particularly good key lime pie which I thoroughly enjoyed as part of my breakfast of red beans and rice and a large glass of water. For me breakfast is whatever I am in the mood for and health experts do say it should be your biggest meal of the day anyway. However, for you hard core breakfast types, Hobnobbers also has and extensive southern breakfast menu including a stack of enormous golden brown buttermilk pancakes and swine if that's your style; more on the menu at Hobnobbers tomorrow. Here are two red bean and rice recipes:
Traditional New Orleans Red Beans and Rice recipe: http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=257296
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