Even their mistakes are edible!
Posted on July 9, 2010
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Giving a little more love to the GoNOLA blog… I have to link out to this piece on Johnny’s Po-Boys. If you’re a Tales newbie, you gotta know about Johnny’s. First, their sammiches are just gooooooooood. Second, and perhaps as important, they’re close to the Hotel Monteleone. How close? Check out these walking directions.
Don’t just take my word for it, though. Read what Tales bloggers have said in previous years. Cameron Crotty (who blogs with wife Anita at Married … With Dinner) wrote …
On our way back to the hotel, our eyeballs vibrating ever so slightly from the sugar buzz, we realized that our “lunch” break wouldn’t come until 2:30, and that we needed something a bit more substantial to carry us through the day. So, we stopped at Johnny’s Po-Boys and split an egg and bacon po’boy, washed down with a couple of Barq’s root beer sodas. Mother’s may get more attention, but for our money, Johnny’s is the spot. It’s a place of wonderful mysteries. How do they manage to get the rolls to be tender, chewy, and flaky all at the same time? How can they offer fried chicken with a homemade biscuit and white gravy for $2.50 a plate? And how am I going to manage to get here enough times this week, given all the other great places that we’ll be eating at?
And NOLA native Chuck Taggart had this to say:
For really good po-boys in the Quarter (or, if we’re going to be really old school, poor boys), head to Johnny’s at 511 St. Louis just up from Decatur. Fried seafood, Creole hot sausage (pretty much my favorite po-boy filling ever), sloppy roast beef, fried potato (the original poor boy sandwich!) and a nearly-endless selection of others … their online po-boy menu has pictures of each sandwich, and as they proclaim, “Even our mistakes are edible!”
What more do you want to know?
We’ve eaten at Johnny’s a dozen times since that first post, and it’s always awesome. My favorite is the spicy sausage patty (dressed, please) and Cameron is partial to the fried crawfish or fried oysters. Big thanks to Chuck for the original recommendation!
Photographic evidence here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marriedwithdinner/sets/72157606277433402/detail/