New Orleans Nov 2019 Day 6

Fly Day

Our flight got moved 4 hours earlier.

Decide to go do our last Beignet run with Cafe Beignet.

At the Jazz park in the AM

One of its location is a jazz park and it's quite a cool place with live performance at 8am.

Musical Legends Park

So we went there for breakfast and enjoyed the music till it's time to head to the airport

Cafe Beignet

After trying 3 beignets places, I can conclude Roger is wrong that all beignets are the same. The similarities end with all have dough that has to rise 6 hours with tons of powdered sugar.
Café Du Monde is the worst. I detected a hint of bitterness that I'm guessing is due to too much yeast to hasten the rising process. And it has less air pocket holes indicating the frying process is getting over-crowded. The lack of crispy exterior is also an indication of too low heat that could come with the overcrowding too. 

Café Beignet has good dough flavor but also has indication of low heat frying with collapse of air holes. But it's vastly better than café du monde. 

The Vintage during the food tour has the best Beignet. Perfect square, crispy exterior. It also took the longest time for the Beignet to be served. 

We also found Ignasius J Reilly statue that Bill has to pose with him =)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces

Wassup dude

And then going to the airport armed with Mahony po boy!

Final Po Boy for the road

We are nervous with the new airport as we heard horror stories of 1.5 hours security line. A local also told us they are not ready for the freeway exit. To get to the airport requires surface road causing 30 mins backup. 

There is also talk of lost luggage that's still lost after a month (aka we are not checking bags). 

In the end its not bad at all. We left the big easy when everyone is coming in for the bayou classic! So it's an easy ride to get to our gate! Whew. 

Fun captures of New Orleans