Girl Time Gone Culinary
The best type of meeting to attend is a meeting featuring great food. In New Orleans, getting together over great food is not hard to do. The multitude of restaurants offering a wide scope of unique food items allow no excuse not to locate a place where everyone can easily find something that they like on the menu. Right before the holidays, women often try to do everything for everyone, and don’t take time to rest and have a good time. Getting together with some close girlfriends can be a fantastic way for ladies to unwind during the holiday season. The culinary options for girlfriends to get together and have fun while bonding over food and drinks are endless.
To fuel up before a full day of shopping or other obligations, girls can head to a wide variety of restaurants in different locations around the city and different price ranges for a scrumptious brunch. With offerings like bananas foster French toast, eggs Benedict, shrimp and grits, turtle soup sherry, seafood mousse, oysters Benedict, strawberries with heavy cream, and freshly squeezed juice with champagne, what more could a girl ask for? New Orleans brunch offerings include something to satisfy even the pickiest of eaters; and several restaurants include live jazz band performances; especially during weekend brunches.
To see how successful girlfriend-get-togethers in New Orleans can be, I spoke to Gia Sausse about her group of ladies, the Lu Lu Krewe, who meet up over food frequently. The Lu Lu Krewe of New Orleans started after Katrina because the original group of ladies wanted to catch up and see what was going on because they felt disbanded after the storm. The group started meeting at restaurants around the city very informally, but now their Facebook group has more than 200 members.
Lu Lu Krewe at Ralph's on the Park
The emphasis of the group is on eating, drinking and catching up as well as meeting new friends, catching up with old ones, and networking amongst members. As the founder of the group, Sausse says that the most important factors which she considers when scouting out a restaurant to meet at is if the cost is affordable for all members and if the restaurant allows customers to bring their own wine. The ladies always have a fun filled time wherever they meet and many new friendships have been formed through the group since it serves as a convenient way to meet new people.
A culinary adventure with girlfriends in the Big Easy wouldn’t be complete without the perfect dessert or drinks to top it all off. Confectioneries, bakeries, and other shops and restaurants offer original desserts unique to the area such as praline parfaits, bread pudding soufflé, banana cream pie, baked Alaska, or beignets. For those counting calories, the city has caught on to the frozen yogurt trend and offers Italian gelato as well. Almost every bar has a ladies night to get the girls together, but any day of the week girls can saunter up to the bar and order a sweet tea or a passion fruit martini, a watermelon mojito, or a cocktail with names like Dixie Crown and Centerfold. Groups of ladies consisting of two or of ten or more do not have to look far to find the perfect uniquely New Orleans culinary experience, perfectly accented by shopping and spa treatments that are sure to satisfy.
Written by guest Blogger Taylor Geiger.
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