Happy June! We woke up today and packed the car, checked out, and Erin followed me to the scooter place. We didn’t have to have the scooter back till noon so we decided to park the car and ride around NOLA a bit more. We wanted to get some Po Boys at Domilise’s, which is the shop Tony Bourdain goes to in his No Reservations New Orleans episode. We rode over, through the garden district, only to find it was closed. So we then decided to go to Cafe Reconcile, another spot Bourdain hit on the show. This place is awesome. It takes kids not necessarily on the right path in life, and puts them to work and teaches them how to work in the food service industry. They rotate in all aspects of the industry, the Kitchen, the front of house, and the back of house. We were the first ones in the dining room, which is fully open to the kitchen, i had a catfish Po Boy with collard greens, Erin had fried catfish with garlic mashed and sweet corm.
It just so happened that we were there on the day the newest class of kids started their orientation, about 18 of them came in to applause from the current students, and sat at a huge center table. It was inspiring and a true testament to the power of New Orleans.
The place filled up fast, so we finished up, paid our bill, overstayed our welcome a bit (they needed to turn the table), got a picture with our server and headed out to drop off the scooter.
We left New Orleans with full stomachs and full, yet heavy, hearts. NOLA is an amazing city that is still struggling, and trying to reinvent what “normal” means. It will renew, rebuild, and reconcile. I can’t wait to come back.
We got back on I10 and are now headed up I55 north through Mississippi to Memphis. Next stop, Beale St.
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