I think it was my favorite cocktail of the trip! Though I did have a fabulous blackberry margarita (half mezcal) at Cochon that may have given it a run for its money. I’ll be putting together a trip report soon…once I can button my pants again. 
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I’ve been reading this thread with great interest as Mr Bean and I decided to go to New Orleans at the end of January. Not the height of tourist season but it’s a good 20 degrees above our temps in NJ. We arrive on Thursday 1/29 and are leaving on Tuesday 2/3.
@biondanonima - is there anything you would like to add about your actual experience?
Any other suggestions are welcome as well. The only things on my to do list as of now are:
Dinner at Delacroix
Tuna Skinny at DBA New Orleans
Walking Tour of the Garden District with lunch at Turkey and the Wolf (recommended by a NOLA native friend)
It looks like the Krewe Boheme will pass by our hotel in the French Quarter on Friday so we plan on staying in the neighborhood.
We prefer to eat what local folks do, especially cuisines we don’t have much of here - so no pizza or Italian for example - and open to trying anything.
Thanks
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Delacroix opened quite recently and we’ve yet to go there. The menu doesn’t look super creative, but I’m sure the food is tasty. Turkey and the Wolf…eh. Is their food good, yes, is it worth waiting on any kind of a line for, no. There are plenty of other great places to eat in the Garden District, so don’t tie yourself to that one.
Check out my restaurant list (it’s linked in a post above) for “food local folks eat.” We are local folks.
Tuba Skinny is a bunch of good musicians with the least entertaining stage presence of any band in town 
I strongly suggest you stroll around Frenchmen St. and dip into any club where you hear good music playing. Snug Harbor (tickets required, two seated sets a night) can be relied upon to have great music pretty much any night. We go frequently and in 8 years have seen only one show that wasn’t superb. Check their monthly calendar for January when it’s released. Elsewhere in the FQ, Mahogany Jazz Hall and Fritzel’s are reliably good as well, more tourist-oriented, but everybody who plays there is a great entertainer. On weekdays, if you are aficionados of jazz, go to the Bayou Bar on St. Charles Ave. in the Pontchartrain Hotel for consistently excellent musicians.
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We stumbled upon a super-fun combo at a super-fun club, and I wish I could remember the names of both. Maybe it’ll come to me eventually…
ETA: The venue was The Spotted Cat but the band’s name still escapes me 
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Thank you the information. I have your list already saved on my planning notes. I will certainly rethink our plans based on your and @linguafood’s feedback.
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