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After waiting junior golf tours in line at New Orleans' junior golf tours most iconic Cajun restaurant in the French Quarter, it's only polite to offer diners a fine compromise in outdoor dining. K-Paul's climate-controlled patio is the best of both worlds, giving one the visual sense of dining in an intimate, shaded courtyard, but in actuality, you're sitting in an air-conditioned garden patio totally concealed from the sun by a heavy awning. Not al fresco enough for you? Reserve one of the upstairs balcony tables overlooking the Supreme Court on Chartres Street with gorgeous skyline views of downtown junior golf tours and St. Louis Cathedral. The menu at K-Paul's hasn't changed much over the years, but Cajun classics like turtle soup, blackened drum and crawfish etouffee have achieved iconic here status for good reason.
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Patience is a virtue that not all possess, particularly in the dog days of summer when you're standing in line at a popular French Quarter restaurant. The solution: grab a picnic lunch to go from Stanley Service Bar, the pocket-sized, take-away kiosk to the very popular restaurant Stanley, where crowds regularly junior golf tours cluster for chef Scott Boswell's gleaming modern ode to the American diner. Call ahead and order a movable feast, then take your meal al fresco on one of the shaded benches in nearby Jackson Square, Dutch Alley in the French Market, or on the riverfront. The Korean Barbecue Beef Poor Boy, Reuben and Thanksgiving junior golf tours Club Croissant are aces in their genre. If you want a classic New Orleans oyster po-boy, Stanley's holds its own against the best. Milkshakes, junior golf tours malts, snoballs (booze optional), Bloody Marys and Mimosas are also available to go.
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