Day 1 in NOLA

So my first day in town saw me eat at a place that was not on my list, or even on my radar. Café Amélie saved me on a bitterly cold afternoon. I had a lot of running around to do and wound up missing the usual lunch hour entirely, so almost everything was closed. I spotted the café, advertising lunch served 'till 3, and ran in to see if they could squeeze me in.

Squeeze they did.

I had a lovely sweet potato andouille sausage soup and a rather forgettable beet salad. The food was decent, but the café itself was enchanting (more so, I imagine, when it's not 20 degrees F), nestled away as it is in a sweet little courtyard.

For dinner, based on the advice of Friday night's cabdriver, I headed to Joey K's where I had a roast beef debris po' boy and my dinner companion had fish. My sandwich was fine, but if that's all there is to a po' boy, I might have to stick with non-sandwich dishes.

The Abita Amber and the Restoration were my beers of choice, and they were both eminently drinkable.

So Day 1 was kind of blah as far as food was concerned... what about Day 2?