Guide Michelle
Eat Like A Local - Restaurant Recs off the tourist path
People visit NOLA with their loose pants packed, ready to try all that our city has to offer so it PAINS me when they get sucked into the...
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Guide Michelle
- May 23
- 2 min
Takin' it to the Streets - Mardi Gras Indians & Second Lines
Things to do: Backstreet Cultural Museum is back! It holds the world’s most comprehensive collection related to New Orleans’ African...
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Guide Michelle
- May 17
- 4 min
NOLA for Bachelors & Bachelorettes and Everyone in Between
New Orleans is full of too many options for groups & so you find yourself on Bourbon St. one too many times, dazed by drinks sold in...
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Guide Michelle
- Apr 4
- 2 min
Ultimate Eating NOLA Guide
Why reinvent the wheel when Eater has done such a good job rounding up an exhaustive list of some of the best eats in town. Updated for...
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Guide Michelle
- Oct 19, 2021
- 7 min
Know Before You Go - New Orleans Top Recommendations from a Local Guide
Broken into 3 great areas of town: the French Quarter the Garden District & Uptown region the Bywater/Marigny neighborhoods Places in...
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Guide Michelle
- Oct 20, 2020
- 2 min
Get Ooky Spooky at Muriel's Jackson Square
I recommend only a few French Quarter restaurants to people (beyond the tried and true and few hidden gems, there's a lot of tourist...
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Guide Michelle
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
Gumbo Ya-Ya
If you asked me the epitome of New Orleans in one dish, it's gumbo- hands down, no contest. The answer to "where to get the best" is...
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Guide Michelle
- May 13, 2020
- 1 min
The Gumbo Queen and Cocaine Donuts- New Orleans Creole Cooking!
I somehow got involved months back in this web series about food travel. They emailed me about the usual misguided New Orleans food...
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Guide Michelle
- May 13, 2020
- 1 min
How to peel and eat crawfish
How to peel crawfish in quarantine: #NTTW20 #OneTimeInNOLA #crawfish
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Guide Michelle
- Apr 24, 2020
- 2 min
Sugar and Spice and Everything Rice
Rice is one of those staples that is really important to the Louisiana. Why rice is in everything in New Orleans? We're flat and have...
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Guide Michelle
- Apr 16, 2020
- 1 min
Chicken of the Ditch
Put a flower crown on her, she's the queen of Spring- she may not be the prettiest, but she's got tons of personality and brings people...
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Guide Michelle
- Apr 10, 2020
- 2 min
Beignet All Day
As long a history as the lines outside of Cafe DuMonde, this beignet is a French dessert was brought by those colonists to our first...
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Guide Michelle
- Mar 31, 2020
- 3 min
More than a sandwich: The Po-boy
It's common lore that the po-boy got its name from the Martin Bros. who left the streetcar conductor life to open a corner store near...
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Guide Michelle
- Feb 15, 2020
- 4 min
What you should probably know about Mardi Gras
It's that you're probably wrong. I'm shocked to learn from my tour guests that the misconceptions of Mardi Gras are alive and well,...
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Guide Michelle
- Feb 15, 2020
- 1 min
Why "Not N'awlins", Baby?
There's an exhausting SNL skit that makes the rounds locally on social media in New Orleans. James McAvoy and Heidi Gardner poke fun at...
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