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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steelfingers" data-source="post: 2949135" data-attributes="member: 38658">Sure O'Brien's is a tourist trap and the Du Monde has nothing you can't get a lot of other places, but if you haven't been, you need to go.  As far as Bourbon Street, you should walk down and out just to see it before it's gone (and one day it will be gone).The square is cool and if you wan't something different, you can ride the streetcar out to the burbs and get some great Italian food.  Had conferences in the FQ every other year for 30 years and sometimes twice a year.  Was suppose to be there during the Hurricane but gratefully it was cancelled.  New Orleans is New Orleans.  Nothing more but in some ways less.  Do the tourist stuff and enjoy the oddity of the place.  It will never be what you think, but that's ok in my books.</blockquote>