Overall: An amazing city, food/architecture/vibewise. Chatting with strangers was an absolute highlight… everybody was so friendly!

About me: 25F, traveling alone, working 8-5 (WiFi-intensive) during the week, sober, foodie, on mobile (sorry about formatting!)

Saturday: - St. Louis no. 1 cemetery tour: Booked in advance. Expensive for what you get, but worth doing once. - Checked in to City House Hostel: Overall it was fine… it’s a hostel, you get what you pay for, but there are a number of things I wish I had known prior to booking (chiefly: Unusable WiFi) - Frenchman street: Great music, great night market, wish I could come here every day - Jambalaya at Coop’s Place: It’s divey, and I had to wait in line for about 30 minutes to get in, and the food was amazing

Sunday: - Jazz mass at Our Lady of Guadalupe: absolutely worth doing, even if you aren’t religious - Music Box Village Open Hours: Very very fun, great for kids. Wear bug spray! - Tofu scramble at Bywater Bakery: Yum, would go again for chantilly cake - Beanlandia: Highlight of my trip, an absolute must-do for locals and visitors - Original Praline at Loretta’s: SPECTACULAR. Maybe my new favorite treat? - Faulkner House Books: Made my literary nerd heart very happy - Boiled crawfish from North Broad: hole in the wall/gas station vibes, truly delicious

Monday: - Worked from: - Fourth Wall Cafe: had the best WiFi and coffee I encountered all week… but alas it closes at 3. Sit in the back room (with the stage) for the best WiFi connection.

• Muffuletta from Central Grocery (well, Sidney’s, while Central Grocery is rebuilding): MAN this was good. Took real effort to not eat the whole thing in one go.
• Dinner at Restaurant August: Beautiful restaurant, beautiful food.
• Music at 21st amendment: great ambiance, great music

Tuesday: - Worked from: - The Bean Gallery: had the overall best setup in terms of WiFi strength/coffee quality/hours

• Beignets from Cafe du Monde (City Park): A must-do, but you already knew that. Apparently this is the best location!
• City Park Wanderings: Walked around the sculpture garden, and saw the singing oak! Both are free. If I had more time I’d see the botanical gardens.

Wednesday: - Worked from: - Cherry Espresso Bar: Cute albeit small and crowded, mid WiFi (workable but slow), good coffee - Latter Library: Most beautiful library I’ve ever stepped foot in, by a decent margin. Mid WiFi, but best atmosphere of the trip - Undergrowth Coffee: Gave up on using WiFi at this point, but great vibes and a lovely barista. Iced tea hit the spot.

• Oyster Po’Boy at Domilise’s: again, iconic for a reason. The small size is quite big! And the oysters were great
• Wandering on Magazine Street: Century Girl Vintage, Great American Alligator Museum, St. Charles Streetcar were all highlights
• Jazz at preservation hall: Worth doing once! Given the price, I wouldn’t go again. Bring water, I was really struggling.

Thursday: - Worked from: - Old Road Coffee: Man, the vibe was good and the people were kind, but the WiFi was borderline unusable - Whole Foods in Treme: Whole Foods remains a staple for solid WiFi connections; it is loud in there - Nostalgia NOLA: Ech. Like, it’s a 90s themed cafe with decent WiFi and was almost really cool, but it just kinda smelled… musty.

• Gumbo at Dooky Chase: A must-do! Amazing food, amazing service, a great vibe overall.
• Riverfront: I can’t believe it took me this long to walk down to the river! Truly beautiful, an amazing place to watch the sunset

Friday: - Worked from: - EnVie cafe: Good WiFi, good coffee, good hours, good outlet availability. However it got pretty crowded on Friday morning for brunch, and I ultimately left so that they could turn the table - PJ’s coffee (on Decatur): Great WiFi, great hours. Sit in the leather armchairs for the fastest WiFi speeds.

• Omelet from Ruby Slipper: I was told to try this place and it was lovely! A crowd-pleasing brunch chain.
• Trendafilka concert at Marigny Opera House: Mentioning these guys by name because this was easily the best show I saw in town. Eastern European polyphonic choral music is not something I thought I needed in my life, and yet!
• Soup Tasting at Commander’s Palace: A must do, if possible. Regardless of whatever else you order, please get the three-soup appetizer.
• Dancing at Rabbit Hole: solid vibes here, a fun club atmosphere, lots of locals and few creepy dudes

I can’t wait to come back… the longer I stayed, the more cool stuff I found, and the longer my NOLA “unfinished business list” became.