Café du Monde is a stinking joke of a tourist trap.
The coffee is disgusting and the one in the French Quarter has never been cleaned (this is normally charming in New Orleans, but this place is just gross). The beignets are good but you can get good beignets anywhere.
It was sold out to a Japanese company decades ago. There is one in the French quarter, there are 4 more in the closest malls just outside of New Orleans and there are 56 of them in Japan. Cafe du Monde really hasn't been worth crap in 100 years. If you want good coffee & chicory, go to any restaurant owned by the Brennans.
The great old coffee houses in New Orleans are pretty much gone.
As I mentioned Rue De La Course had to downsize due to outrageous Magazine St. rent prices. They are the best chain there.
There is a lovely coffee shop at Magazine St. and Nashville called Bella Luna. They have a beautiful old mansion where you can sit out on the old wooden porch. They have blue sky and clouds painted in the ceiling of the outside porch. But their WiFi always gives me trouble.
My other favorite place is up on Oak St in Riverbend. It's called Z'otz. Great coffee, great Art.
Still Perkin' at Prytania & Washington has a lovely outdoor deck for reading the paper.
Fuel on Magazine St. is a new favorite.
CC's (Community Coffee) and PJ's are also near & dear to my heart.
Kaldi's down in the quarter was awesome; also couldn't afford skyrocketing rent.
They are all still doing the best they can, competing in a reduced city in a crappy economy,
but I'll tell you who isn't worried...
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Good job, fat mid-western white tourists. This is not my city.
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