Originally Posted by
RobbieRunner
How about "Specialty Coffee" shops like Cafe Du Monde?
I have a can of this in my freezer. To me, that's a really funky taste, that is best left to visits to their restaurant in New Orleans munching on Beignets. I only can drink this there, or when I'm having some cake or sweets, which I really don't do very often. The heavy smokey Chicory taste needs to be cut (IMO) by something sweet.
I feel the same way about the coffee from Cafe du Monde; it really can only be eaten with those delicious and always messy beignets.
When you first posted about them, I had a flashback to a very sticky spring day, sitting with friends, watching the first signs of life returning to make the French Quarter somewhat 'normal'. For months after Katrina MSY was a ghost town, then slowly populated by military, then contractors and aid workers, and finally the first few tentative visitors came back. It was easy to find a table that Sunday morning, but it was a good memory of things starting to improve.
