This is the first time most of you are reading about this, but I've been searching for the city's best burger for well over a year, and as of now, Jackson still wins. Today, the quest for the best burger in New Orleans continued with Gott Gourmet Cafe.
I love Gott Gourmet. I've been there plenty of times and I have never been disappointed. The location is perfect (Magazine Street), you have the option to dine either indoors or outdoors, and it is CLEAN. I've eaten salads and sandwiches there, so I figured the next logical thing to do was to try the burger. Clearly, I made the right decision.
The bun was soft and soaked up all of the juices from the burger, which was topped with roasted tomatoes, pickles, lettuce, spinach, and red onions. The burger itself was juicy and peppery, and I think I tasted some chili powder in it as well. Although it still didn't beat out the Jackson burger, I'd definitely list the Gott burger as the second-best I've had.
After lunch we went to the Creole Creamery for dessert. I've had their ice cream before at booths for French Quarter Fest and similar events, but this was my first visit to the creamery's Uptown location. There is a great variety of ice cream and sorbet flavors here, which range from the everyday boring to the fun and quirky. I had Hubig Apple Pie ice cream. It tastes just like it sounds: vanilla ice cream with mashed up Hubig pies, and sinfully delicious. My father, who joined me on this adventure, is the type of guy to get the simplest thing on the menu, figuring that a good place won't mess up a classic. He had a chocolate milkshake and liked it very much, so I would recommend that to any similarly safe eaters.
I really liked the atmosphere at the Creole Creamery as well. It's on a section of Prytania street with other houses-turned-businesses, and I think that gives it a lot of charm and character. There's a courtyard toward the back of the restaurant, which I don't think is accessible from the inside, but it gives it a down-home feel that I love in a little shop like that. I will definitely come back here, and next time I want to try the green apple chardonnay sorbet, which just sounds divine.
And finally, some judgement on my day-old croque monsieur from lunch yesterday at Luke. Everything was soggy. Yes, I realize that I should have heated it up in the oven and not the microwave, but the whole purpose of eating leftovers is to have good food fast and maintain some level of laziness. So, I'm slightly disappointed that it didn't hold up well after a day in the refrigerator, but that didn't deter me from eating it because all of the flavors were just as good as they were yesterday.
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