A website that maps the newest and most popular restaurants tries to answer the question where are the best new restaurants, what is the newest? what is the most popular? This site has developed a "Heat Map" that shows where and what. Their criteria requires a restaurant to be open for less than year and to have taken shown to be really popular.
New Orleans is known for it's food with new restaurants popping up all the time and this site might help you figure out which ones are worth trying. If you buy a home in New Orleans or currently live here you get to check out new restaurants all the time. The famous and well known restaurants are easy to find and if you are visiting New Orleans names like Emeril, Brennan's and Commanders Palace will be mentioned. The heat map has some of the more local restaurants, Eater Heat Map.
They say that you can eat out every night of the year and never visit the same restaurant twice and never have a bad meal in New Orleans. Don't know if that is true probably too expensive and too caloric for me to try but that's what they say.
Yet another scam arrived in my inbox this afternoon. This one attempts to look like it is coming from REMAX because they have the balloon in the email and they ask you to click through for property information....they ask you to sign in with your Facebook or Twitter accounts...
NO WAY, NO HOW WOULD THE "REAL" REMAX send something like this ---PLEASE DO NOT OPEN IT, DO NOT CLICK THROUGH AND DO NOT GIVE PERMISSION FOR ACCESS TO YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS...THE EMAIL:
If you are new to an area there are things that you will not know. Here are some of the things that I didn't know when I moved to New Orleans.
1. A Po Boy is a sandwich on French Bread "dressed" with mayonnaise, lettuce and tomato. In New Orleans you will be asked if you want your sandwich "dressed". If you are not asked and you don't say your sandwich will come with all of the toppings.
2. The roads are in terrible condition in some parts of the Garden District and Uptown. There are no drains for water to flow to so the sides of the roads are tranches where water can collect during heavy rainfalls.
3. Until this year there was no recycling but now the City of New Orleans recycles except for darkly colored glass bottles. ?!?!
4. It is legal to drive and talk on your phone and yes drivers are distracted and this is not a good thing.
5. Sometimes it is okay when making a left turn to go through the red light at the turn but it is not okay all the time. The very nice New Orleans police officer I asked about this said it up to the officers to decide and there are no signs when and if you will receive a ticket and there no signs.
6. Locations are discussed as towards the river or towards the lake and because of the curve of the Mississippi River north can become south and east is not necessarily east.
7. There are 70 communities in New Orleans and it is impossible to know everything about everything.
8. In New Orleans your entire property tax is due in January.
9. There is no no parking for road cleaning, there is no road cleaning however the roads seems clean anyway.
10. In New Orleans you can buy a daiquiri at a drive thru and so if you thought that driving while on your cell was not a good thing what do you think of this?
11. It is legal to walk around the French Quarter drinking liquor and there are many daiquiri establishments.
12. The trolly car's cost $1.25 and you must have exact change.
13. One of the local supermarkets is a chain by the name of Rousse's. They are all over and have prepared foods that people down here seem to like.
14. I am told that Popeye's makes the best beans and rice as good as making it at home.
15. There is a shopping mall out in Metairie with stores like Williams Sonoma, Sephora and there is an Apple Store, my personal favorite. All of he big box stores are also out in Metairie with Best Buy, Target, Sears (for now) and most of what you can think of.
16. Lot's of things are discussed in terms of Hurricane Katrina with comparisons of how it was before to how it is now often made.
17. You could if you wanted to eat out every night of the week for a year and never eat in the same place twice or at least it seems that way.
18. This community rocks. It is quirky, engaging and engaged. People have moved here from all over the country. People visit and stay because there is just no place quite like New Orleans.
If you have never been to New Orleans you really should make it a point to visit..
KIVA is a program that extends loans to extrepreneurs around the world and is currently in two United States cities, New Orleans and Detroit. Micro loans as low as $25 can be contributed and anyone can lend money, you decide who you want to support, you are not contributing money to the organization but to specific individuals. Micro lenders around the world contribute. 450 individuals out of 100,000 started small businesses in the New Orleans area last year which is above the national average of 350 out of 100,000.
New Orleans is the model city for KIVA in the United States. Some points of the program.
$10,000 maximum loan
36 months loan term
15% interest/no collateral/no credit score - interest rate can be lowered with a good payment history
Borrowers need to have a viable business plan and the ability to repay the loan
Good Work Network processes the application.
The actual loans are posted on the KIVA site and are fully funded within 24 hours
Business support services available
Most banks don't make small loans and the borrowers from KIVA have been turned down by a financial institution
Loans are funding within 24 hours
The Times Picayune is reporting today that after the schedule was set Bruce Sprinnsteen requested to play at the Annual Jazz Fest held in New Orleans, LA. The line up this year is great and just got better. For the full line up, schedule and to buy tickets - New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Some of the other performers are:
The Beach Boys
Zac Brown Bandk
John Mayer
Herbie Hancock
Bon Iver
Neville Brothers
Al Green
Allen Toussaint
Bonnie Raitt
Jazz Fest and Bruce Springsteen Article from the Times Picayune
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
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