Another reason for locals to eat in the upper Quarter
 

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There’s a nascent but promising trend afoot in the French Quarter, one in which the most heavily-touristed parts of the neighborhood are starting to get casual restaurants that aren’t explicitly tourist-oriented. Instead, these new places have enough quality and class both to attract locals and to please visitors whose tastes run a just a bit higher-brow than “huge ass beers.”


One example is Sylvain, which opened within a beignet’s throw of Jackson Square in 2010.? [ Read more ]

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