Po-Boy Preservation Festival

Last night, my roommate and I made a list of our "must taste" po-boys at today's festival. The two of us and a friend arrived armed with a knife, prepared to maximize our tastings by cutting multiple po-boys into thirds so that we could try that many more sandwiches! To our surprise, many of the vendors were on the same page as us with $2.00 sampler sized po-boys! By day's end, we had eaten six different po-boy samplers (all but one featured in slide show) and listened to some great music!

Po-Boy Tasting Ranking (There were 40 different vendors on Oak Street.):
1) Grand Isle - Shrimp Caminada Po-boy
2) Emeril's - Bacon, Lettuce, and Fried Green Tomato Shrimp Remoulade Po-boy
3) Carnival Brands of N.O. - Creole Crawfish Cake
4) Bozo's Restaurant and Oyster Bar - Stuffed Louisiana Crab with Tomato Dressing
5) Parkway Bakery and Tavern - Roast Beef Sampler (would have been ranked higher, except I discovered large, thick globs of mayo under the cheese...ew...)
6) Bourbon House Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse - Bourbon Shrimp

Items on our list that we were too full to get to or were sold out:
- Di Martino's - Muffuletta on French
- The Palace - Extra Special Peacemaker (ESP)
- Ye Olde College Inn - Fried Bread Pudding Po-boy

Stuff we skipped because we already knew they were delicious from having tried them at the New Orleans Seafood Festival, earlier this year:
- Drago's Charbroiled Oysters
- Acme Oyster House's Fried Shrimp and Fried Oyster Po-Boys

Sunpie Barnes and The Louisiana Sunspots


Ultimate French Bread Fighting - Definitely the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen! (Watch out for the flying french bread at the end of the video!)


MyNameIsJohnMichael - We saw them at VooDoo Fest and were stoked to see them again at the Po-Boy fest!


http://www.poboyfest.com/

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