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The Eats of New Orleans
Nov 2, 2025
Follow Eric B at @TravelAdventureswithEricB New Orleans is a food lover’s paradise. From fresh Gulf oysters and hearty jambalaya to iconic muffulettas and powdered-sugar-covered beignets, the Crescent City is full of flavors you’ll never forget. In this video, we’ll share the must-try dishes of New Orleans, explain their history, and give tips on where to enjoy them. Whether you’re exploring the French Quarter, grabbing a po’boy for lunch, or finishing the night with café au lait and beignets, these foods are an essential part of the New Orleans experience. Filmed in New Orleans, LA #NewOrleansFood #EatNewOrleans #TravelTips Wolters World for Food! Our videos focus on helping travelers know what to eat when they travel, the traditional food that you always want to eat when you travel. Copyright Mark Wolters 2025 Our Main Channel: https://www.youtube.com/woltersworld Visit Our Amazon Store for Drinkware, cookingware, travel gear, and other necessities of life. http://www.amazon.com/shop/woltersworld Follow Jocelyn on Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/jocelynwoltersworld Follow Wolters World on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/woltersworld Follow Our Shorts Channel for quick travel tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmSIWRrLCcqamLlTEEBLFLA
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Hey, I'm Jocelyn with Walter's World Eats, and this is my friend Eric from Travel Adventures with Eric B
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And we are going to do the Eats of New Orleans today
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Eat everything. For sure. Okay, so number one on my list is crawfish etouffee
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You want to tell them kind of what etouffee is? Crawfish etouffee is fantastic
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So when you make crawfish etouffee, okay, it's like a red sauce
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The crawfish etouffee is rice. It's a red sauce. You can do crawfish etouffee, you can do shrimp
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I personally like to do shrimp and crawfish because I'm a shrimp person
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Nice. Crawfish, shrimp, etouffee. You can't miss out on either one. They're both great
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The sauce is good. You talk about great. Yeah, I like it very much
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So number two on my list is a crawfish boil. So with a crawfish boil, crawfish boil is a lot like a low country boil up in Savannah and the low country area where you have shrimp and things
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But down here, y'all use crawfish and corn and sausage, and you boil it all up and you slap it right down on the table and eat, right
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Well, you know, my favorite part about it is the seasoning. You season it up just right, and the corn and the potatoes is so good
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We're talking so good. A little spicy? Oh, a little spicy. A little flavor
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Man, it might run your blood pressure off, but you're going to really enjoy that flavor
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Lots of flavor. So good. Two tips. Tip one, once you've touched this crawfish or anything that's got cayenne
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don't wipe your face with your hands. Don't touch hands. If you're a gentleman, don't use the restroom
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Tip two, once you're done eating and you've got this lovely smell on your hand, which is a great
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smell while you're eating, but you don't want to keep it on, wash your hands with toothpaste
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and it help clear all the smell out So the next one is jambalaya and I going to let Eric Take that Dambalaya is really good You talking about some good Creole rice Got to be seasoned just right Jambalaya or a spin of it is pastalaya too
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Some people here like to do the pastalaya. Whether you like the jambalaya or the pastalaya, we're talking good food here
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We're talking some good old sausage in it. We're talking rice, Creole seasoning
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You got to have it. Jambalaya or pastalaya. Tell me about pastalaya
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Are we just subbing in pasta instead of rice? Basically, pasta light is subbing in pasta for rice
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We're talking the same type of seasoning, but it's so good. You got to try both
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I haven't had it. I didn't even know about it. I'm so excited. We're going to try that stuff
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You got to try both. Awesome. The thing about gumbo is there are different types of gumboes depending on where you are
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Now, in New Orleans, you tend to have gumbo, more an okra-based gumbo
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They like to do the okra here. Now if you go for more, which is more pre-old gumbo, if you go for more of the Cajun gumbo, like in southwest Louisiana, they tend to have tomatoes and different things in it
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But gumbo is really good. They call it the Holy Trinity when you're talking about your gumbo
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You're talking about the roux. The roux has to be perfect in the gumbo. You've got to put the right roux in it
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The rice, the seasoning, you've got to have it all. The spices, you've got to have the right spices
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And that Holy Trinity is something that we talk about a lot in foodways down here
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and that's bell peppers and onion and celery, right? Those things get chopped up and cooked together, and that starts at the base of the root, right
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Right. And also with gumbo, I may add, you can get different types of gumbo
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The most popular is either the chicken and sausage gumbo or the seafood gumbo
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With seafood, you can go with some shrimp. You can go with gumbo crabs
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or you can also do like a duck gumbo. I see duck gumbo
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Duck gumbo. Eric's teaching me all sorts of good stuff today. There's a lot of different gumbos you can go with
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but the most popular you'll see on the menu is indeed the chicken and sausage and the seafood
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That's the one you see everywhere, right? And you should try them all. You should try them all
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So then another thing is red beans and rice. Red beans and rice, I feel like it's all over in the South
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Like we eat that in lots of places and it's really self-explanatory
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but it is like one of those stick to your ribs kind of dishes. If you are starving Marvin that what you need to order Okay so one of my favorite things to get in New Orleans is oysters There are some rules about oysters right You never eat them in a month containing an R right
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Because that means the water is too hot and so the oysters might not be very good
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But nowadays we get farmed oysters and things and so you're probably just fine
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So the thing about oysters is people freak out. They think they look like what somebody hock the Luthien stuck in a shell
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They can look a little slimy. It's a little bit slimy. And they can feel a little bit slimy
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But around here you get a lot that are charboiled. Oysters Rockefeller was made here
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Not New York. I always thought of it as New York. But it's actually from New Orleans. So those things get other things on top
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We had some really great ones the other day at Brennett's. And they had tomatoes on top and some crunchy bits
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And they're cooked. And so it's a good way to kind of lead yourself into loving oysters
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Do you love oysters, right? Oh, yeah. You can do different kinds. I personally like the fried oysters, but you can do fried
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You can do the chob raw oysters. Some people even eat them raw
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That's me. All right. So next we're going to talk about po'boys
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Po'boys are delicious. Now, people who aren't from Louisiana and different parts of the country
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they may call them hokey because it's a similar type of bread
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But po'boy bread, po'boy bread is a little harder bread, but depending on where you get it from
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I've had po' boy bread soft. But the best thing about a po' boy is the way it's dressed
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Po' boys usually dress like there's different sauces that you put on it. Usually there's a good mayo sauce that they put on it and makes it really good
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But I personally like shrimp po' boys. Shrimp po' boys are excellent. But you can also get other types of po' boys from debris po' boys with the roast beef on it
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All different types. I've had hamburger po' boys. I've had all different types
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Oyster po' boys. Oyster po' boys. but many, many different types of po'boys, but I can assure you they're all good
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You should try po'boys. Okay, so our next one is a true New Orleans staple
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It's a muffaletta, and Ana La Herrick, explain muffaletta to you. Well, there's a place down here in this French Quarter called Central Grocery
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and they're known for their muffaletta. So the muffaletta has that salad that salami on it that ham the Swiss cheese the provolone but it known for its olive loaf is what it known for So if you a fan of olives or you not a fan of olives you may want to try it or
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you may not. It's sort of an acquired taste in my opinion. I like the muffalettos
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It's one of those things though, like I said, it's an acquired taste. So part of the thing with a muffaletta is that it has this big, round, fluffy, red looking
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that just sits unusual, right? It doesn't look like any other kind of sandwich
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Not like a hoagie. Not like a sub. Not like white bread sandwich. It's just flat
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It's nice and puffy, round. Exactly. Like a muffin. Maybe that's where muffaletta came from
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That's what it sounds like to me. But, yeah, muffaletta is definitely something you should try again
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But I know, I'm telling you, you should try everything. Because New Orleans is a great place to eat
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I've eaten my way through here this week. So, our last eat for New Orleans
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And let's just say that there are a gajillion other things you should eat here
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I mean, like, I have not had a bad meal yet. Like, I had some of the best dang fried chicken the other day at a dive bar
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I mean, it was just fantastic. So, don't think that these are the only things you have to eat
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And please put your suggestions down below. But the last one we're going to finish up with is beignets aka Café du Monde
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Because Café du Monde is the one everybody knows about, right? Yes
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Why? Eric, we are going over to... Café beignets. Café beignets. Just over here
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We're going to try them there because he swears they're better than Dumont
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But either way, it's just fluffy dough, nicely, lightly fried, and then covered in powdered sugar
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My tip to you, if you have never had something like this before, don't inhale when you take a bite because you'll choke to death
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You'll make a complete mess, too, of yourself. You'll be covered, right? A complete mess
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But we mentioned Cafe Dumont. If you've never been to New Orleans or you've never experienced the beignets
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Cafe Du Monde, great to go for for that experience because it's a popular place
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But I do prefer Cafe Beignet. Cafe Beignet is excellent. They're beignets that they taste a little fresher
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And they're just better to me, in my opinion, than the ones at Cafe Du Monde
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But I would say try them both. So, on that note, we're going over to Cafe Beignet to go get a new beignet
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So, see y'all later. thank you so much for being here. Bye
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