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Besides some of the newer places with good upscale Italian, I've found that there's a lot of Italian influence in the cooking(or specifically Sicilian) or older restaurants that were started by Italians that serve Creole-style food with a mix of Italian dishes. A place like Pascal's Manale feels like very old school--though they're specifically famous for New Orleans-style BBQ shrimp and serve other Creole dishes, but they also have a lot of Italian(or Italian-American) dishes on the menu.
There's also places like Angelo Brocato's for Italian ice cream and pastries or the old Italian grocery Central Grocery for muffaletta(which is a tourist staple)--which is probably the most recognizable contribution from Italian immigrants in New Orleans.
And there's also this place on a rural highway on the edge of the metro, that's basically a classic red sauce joint that seems unchanged for the last fifty years--and also where famed Mafia boss Carlos Marcello used to hold court. Italian Restaurant | Avondale, Louisiana | Mosca
I'm just a frequent tourist and aficionado of New Orleans though, I'm sure some of the posters from there can provide much more detail about restaurants. I know there's some good Italian places out in the suburbs as well(where most of the older Italian community moved to).
Have you ever been to Metairie? It seems to have a strong Italian concentration (relatively speaking)?
Besides some of the newer places with good upscale Italian, I've found that there's a lot of Italian influence in the cooking(or specifically Sicilian) or older restaurants that were started by Italians that serve Creole-style food with a mix of Italian dishes. A place like Pascal's Manale feels like very old school--though they're specifically famous for New Orleans-style BBQ shrimp and serve other Creole dishes, but they also have a lot of Italian(or Italian-American) dishes on the menu.
There's also places like Angelo Brocato's for Italian ice cream and pastries or the old Italian grocery Central Grocery for muffaletta(which is a tourist staple)--which is probably the most recognizable contribution from Italian immigrants in New Orleans.
And there's also this place on a rural highway on the edge of the metro, that's basically a classic red sauce joint that seems unchanged for the last fifty years--and also where famed Mafia boss Carlos Marcello used to hold court. Italian Restaurant | Avondale, Louisiana | Mosca
I'm just a frequent tourist and aficionado of New Orleans though, I'm sure some of the posters from there can provide much more detail about restaurants. I know there's some good Italian places out in the suburbs as well(where most of the older Italian community moved to).
Thanks-that sounds awesome. I would like to explore the region outside of New Orleans more and this just gives me even more reason to go back!
Have you ever been to Metairie? It seems to have a strong Italian concentration (relatively speaking)?
I've driven through it plenty of times, but I don't really know that area that well. I have a number of good friends from New Orleans(post-Katrina transplants out west) who would always talk about the Yats(people speaking the Yat accent) out in the suburbs like Metairie--a lot of the old Italian/Irish/German descended folks moved out there. I once met an old Italian-American dentist on a plane flying out there who lived in Metairie who grew up in the Lower Garden District who told me the name of a bunch of Italian places to go including a few in the suburbs(though I never followed up on going out there).
It'd be interesting to explore some of the restaurants out there more though--since most visitors usually stick to just New Orleans itself.
The white population has declined in all of these cities since 1950.
Baltimore leads in the poll, yet nobody actually makes the case as for why. Proximity to Philly?
I don't think Philly has anything to do with anything in Baltimore. I could be that Little Italy is in downtown Baltimore, or some other reason that I'm not aware of at this time.
I haven't spent much time in North Beach tbh but if it's anything like Little Italy in San Diego (which I honestly have no idea if it is or isn't) it left a lot to be desired and seemed pretty inauthentic. Baltimore's just has that old school East Coast Little Italy feel-although to a smaller degree.
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