Monday, November 24, 2008
The 2nd annual Po-Boy Preservation Festival
Posted by Kevin Allman on Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:19 AM
That's Gambit intern Bryan Davis, volunteering today at the New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival (but obviously Bryan was not too busy to eat). It was a great day to be on Oak Street, eating Vaucresson's hot sausage and roast beef and banh mi and just about anything that could be dressed between two pieces of French bread. (But crowded...the fest is only in its 2nd year and an hour into it Oak Street was impassable; they're going to have to rethink logistics for 2009. Still, it was a great time and, as we put in New Orleans, a "new tradition.")
A few more shots below the cut:
Oak Street as the festival opened. (Yeah, it got more crowded. A lot more crowded.)
The men of Drago's, charbroiling oysters streetside.
David Batiste and his family band, the Gladiators, who had the crowds dancing in the intersection at Oak and Leonidas.
And then there was this lady, who never moved from her window in two hours...
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Oak St was *packed*! The line at Drago's was always at least 50 people long. Pascal's Manale was only slightly better. $2 BBQ Beef from Parkway was pretty good. A nice, low-cost appetizer before diving in to some of the more interesting po-boys. I ran in to more people I knew on the side streets leaving than I did the two hours I was on Oak St.
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