"We make it fun, such as the Pancake kits you can take home and make your own pancakes for the little ones and of course our great Bloody Mary kits for the grownups," says Jen. I tell her that I had learned about the Ruby Slipper from a group of people biking respectively drinking Bloody Mary's on Sunday and they told me where the Ruby Slipper was!
Honestly, with the pickup and take out orders, you can start to be real creative.
Let's try the sliders, something that I wasn't familiar with til coming to New Orleans, they have many different combinations and Jen says that they are always tasting suggestions from her team. Try the Biscuit sliders such as Fried Chicken and Gravy, Cheeseburger sliders, or Cane Syrup Glazed Ham & Swiss. 
They are famous for their MIMOSAS and BLOODY MARYS, TOO AND ARE QUITE PROUD TO TELL YOU THAT...VERY TASTY, AND JUST WHAT I NEEDED DURING THE TAKEOUT AND RIDE THE BIKE DAYS OF NEW ORLEANS.
So, while the Ruby Slipper and Ruby Sunshine has great breakfast, lunch and brunch, most notably great Bloody Mary's and cocktails, remember that little girl from New Orleans, amidst all the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and in a foreign place, who held her own against the debutantes of Houston!
Okay, so let's see what do we want of the sweet stuff, how about: BACON PRALINE, Cinnamon Swirl, Classic Buttermilk Pancakes, Bananas Foster Style or maybe you want brunch with these Bloody Mary's and Mimosas. /cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/62280587/30729808_1691331260957045_3838676620516430136_n.0.jpg)
The Ruby Slipper's are full of sunshine and playfulness. A fun eclectic place to have a great meal.
"We are engineers and when we encounter a problem, we are in our element. Unlike other types of people who see problems as problems, I think that the reason we have been so successful, with 16 restaurants, since 2009, is that as engineers the entire job is about solving a problem. So we say, okay, how do we accomplish the job. And we view it technically and solve it."
INDIA HOUSE HOSTEL in New Olreans: The Party Pool Tiki Huts Hostel
Love the many alleys and houses associated behind the scenes with India House of New Orleans With 180 beds, you know the Hostel has to be BIG! It has inside courtyard balconies with private rooms named the Mardi Gras Quarter, dorms, a huge pool scene complete with Tiki BBQs, gourmet made to order breakfasts for $6!, a Music Live Stage where you can play or hear live bands, indoor picnic table dining room with a huge kitchen and fun guests who love to cook and have you join them for wine and tofu and sausage and cheese nights! 
A great seating outdoor area where people eat or hangout and if you want to do poolside there is plenty of comfy Lounge charis all around the ppol with picnic tables. Upstairs in the Main House(1 of about 8 houses connected) is 5 huge private 4-beds in each room, rooms with fireplaces and funky Mardi Gras Colors, brand new funky furniture in the 4 dowstairs play rooms for guests and a very funny friendly team that is always wandering around to help you, cook for you or drink with you! Love the Team and the atmosphere. 
The perfect mix of upscale and bohemian, the dorms and privates mix very well in the party hostel of New Orleans.
https://www.thequisby.com/
The Quisby's creator of the cool bunkbeds, Swiss woodmaker, Heinz Gautschi.
While usually the place is full of happy guests, during the couple of weeks that we are being responsible, the Quisby is a little quiet...can't wait for April 5, 2020~ 
"New Orleans is a beautiful city, and you will love the Caribbean feel to it. If you love the city, now, as you say you do with it being only open to takeout windows, so to speak, you will really love it when it opens up completely," says Jose who absolutely loves his city. His wife works for New Orleans and Company which helps to bring tourism to the city and so we are in the same boat! "The food is amazing here. Absolutely. The crawfish, the shrimp that Louisiana is famous for, and the Catfish are all the specialties along with the Creole influence that truly makes New Orleans special in compared to every other city in America. It is a culture true to its own. We have so many festivals, The French Quarter festival, followed with the Jazz festival and I believe that my wife said we have something like about 130 festivals in New Orleans every year. The people LOVE TO PARTY HERE. IT IS THE CULTURE OF NEW ORLEANS. So, we're all a little shocked right now being cautious as we are usually the most social of people," he says. 
For Reservations to see the quiet beauty of NewOrleans and to meet the sweet community please click on the website link: https://www.thequisby.com/ 
Meet the owner of Sofia, Billy.First we need to say that New Orleans is the coolest city on the planet, hands down! It has everything to do, nightlife,jazz, seafood that is unparelled around the world such as the shrimp, crawfish, catfish, etc that makes the city famous. And it has the coolest and the Best of New Orleans new Restaurant named SOFIA, AFTER SOFIA LOREN! https://www.sofianola.com/
https://www.cafecarmo.com/
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"With foods from South America, South East Asia, West Africa and the Caribbean, I try to give a lot of flavor to the people of New Orleans that they wouldn't normally find here, and although New Orleans is famous for its spices and its Creole and Cajun food, I wanted to add something a little special," says the lovely head chef, DANA, who along with his Brazilian wife, have about 5 chefs from these parts of the world working with them. "I learn constantly from one of my chefs from SRI LANKA, for example, since he has had many years cooking with his countries recipes and he teaches me."
"The cinema room is always full of people enjoying the culture of the food that they are eating."
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The Tropical Raw Oyster Bar and Tropical Restaurant, CARMO, has a cinema screening room that coincides with the ethnic food of the month, such as Haiti now with native Haitian artist's art adorning the walls and films on the country in the screening room, and in addition the food is presented on the menu, along with Latin and South American dishes. "Next month is a tribute to Brazil since my wife is from Brazil and is along with me the head executive chef here," says DANA, the very fun and culturally interested owner of CARMO. 
MAYAS LATIN AMERICAN RESTAURANT
2027 MAGAZINE STREET
Welcome to Maya's, A Honduras Experience That I Promise you shall fall in love with.
Headed by Chef Edgar and met at the New Makeshift Podium by his nephew MARIO, I had a hilarious and entertaining conversation filled with alternating giggles and loud laughter. Chef Edqar is Latin Culture personified with colorful vibrant exotic views of the Tropical island's outlook on life.
"My food is filled with any ingredient you want, beans, spices, flavors, avocados, bacon, ham,what you want we can add! I am in love with the New Orleans culture and life because it has the people that love to socialize and party. It is a city that is always awake and in constant motion of activity and thought, as is my food!" Edward says with laughter dispersed in every sentence! 
"I have Honduran specialties and yet I have the exotic flavors of Cuba and Venezuela and Ecuador and the islands in my food. Each one is a original recipe and we change it up. We add ingredients all the time. I can stuff the Venezuelan food 12 different ways," he says as he laughs again and I start giggling showing him a beautiful wedding dress I want to buy next door at the vintage place. A gorgeous chiffon white with roses on it sewn in, short fluffy haute couture and beautiful. He says" ooh that is beautiful!" And I laugh and hold the photo to me,"Its mine," I say and we both start laughing again. "The restaurant is for the locals. I have 13 years of locals coming, mixing and sitting in Drinking wine experiencing my hospitality and culture. My team is at home and yet I continue to pay my team of 30 one week salary. They're my team, my family, my friends. I don't know what is going to happen in 2 weeks. I want everybody to be safe, yet I'm starting to think that people are just scared more than anything else. If it is safe for the residents to venture out and meet again and to come and pickup-good I want them to to do so," he says.
"Mario is my nephew and he is right here in the front greeting the guests, and I am the chef. I love mixing the Latin cultures ingredients of which every item that I use is fresh everyday. They are the aromas and flavors of my mother's and my grandmother's kitchens!" says Edqar. 
"I have been here 13 years and I have food that I love to mix and match with the rhythm of the dance, you know to dance and try new items," says Edqar who I can imagine if you went to a dance party with him you would never leave! 
The very cool and funky couple that own the PEPPER PALACE, a boutique store of the original owner, Craig from Tennesse, who's entire purpose is to introduce the 300 plus recipes of Mild, Medium, Hot, extrahot sauce to its guests let me have 1 hour of their time to interview the fun couple. "We're 14 years apart," says the gorgeous Sharon along with her husband John McNall who have a delightful American dream story. "I'm the older one," Sharon says and we laugh "I interrupt her all the time," says her husband John, and although that is true they are both so excited and passionate about the product that they have chosen to love and embrace and share with the people that visit New Orleans that a short chat turns into a 1-1/2 hour conversation!
With about 300 recipes to choose from, it can be a little overwhelming, "We have tastings of all the flavors and we label each one so that you know if it is mild, medium, hot and super hot. We want people to experience the flavors in a fun way with New Orleans, and my level of hot is about 8 to 9 now. Yet, you can ask John, when I first started the business it was all his idea since I didn't even like ketchup on my food. Yet, now after 10 to 12 years, I love the sauces. It is all up to a personal taste. You can cook with it, add it to food, make dips with it, just about anything you want with the sauce. We have sweet sauces, too. It was a time when me and John would actually create our own sauces, but we tend to be happy with the selections we have now," says Sharon as she shows me the huge assortment of the sauces. 
John says, "Every sauce we make at our home factory. Everyone is homemade, home-batched, home recipes. It is the Pepper Palace recipes that you see here. We were both working in Tennessee, me as a chef and Sharon as a waitress when we met. I noticed that Sharon loved to be the CEO of every business that she attempted and one day we stumbled upon the Pepper Palace. I loved it, yet Sharon was the one who started working there. I met Craig, the big boss later and he suggested I try it with her. After a year he asked if we wanted to buy a Pepper Palace and honestly it was way too much to invest for us. Yet after 3 years of us basically eating RAMEN noodles and saving, we accomplished the American dream and bought our first one in New Orleans on Decatur street. It had to do about $14,000 just to make rent the first month and Craig told me the day before we were opening the doors that he and the team were going back to Tennessee and leaving us to our store. I didn't even know how to add sales tax alone and I was freaked out. Now we have had 4 stores at one time and after a little back and forth we are going to be owning 3 New Orleans stores. We absolutely love the big boss who has helped us so much, and he has about 75 stores himself. He is super supportive and we are kind of his last private owners of the PEPPER PALACES and so I think perhaps we are a little special to him!" says the very talkative, kind and fun John McNall of the Pepper Palace in New Orleans. Please visit the locations 224 Chartres STreet and 1 French Market Place. 
Yet after 3 years of us basically eating RAMEN noodles and saving, we accomplished the American dream and bought our first one in New Orleans on Decatur street. It had to do about $14,000 just to make rent the first month and Craig told me the day before we were opening the doors that he and the team were going back to Tennessee and leaving us to our store. I didn't even know how to add sales tax alone and I was freaked out. Now we have had 4 stores at one time and after a little back and forth we are going to be owning 3 New Orleans stores. We absolutely love the big boss who has helped us so much, and he has about 75 stores himself. He is super supportive and we are kind of his last private owners of the PEPPER PALACES and so I think perhaps we are a little special to him!" says the very talkative, kind and fun John McNall of the Pepper Palace in New Orleans. Please visit the locations 224 Chartres STreet and 1 French Market Place.