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Next year's festival is scheduled for the last weekend in March, March 25-27, 2011.

Thanks to everyone who helped to make this year's festival a huge success! All in all, an estimated 30,000 people came out to enjoy the festival on Royal Street. Nearly fifty restaurants representing four states and eight cities participated in the street festival and the weekend's special events.



Overview

Oyster Poy Boy

A weekend to celebrate and savor the delicious diversity of our country's food

Friday - Sunday, March 26-28, 2010

300-700 Royal St., New Orleans

Relish fabled glories from all over America – each dish served by the landmark restaurant that makes it best.

Saturday and Sunday, 5 blocks of Royal Street in the heart of The French Quarter will be the home of 20 vendors serving regional specialties unavailable elsewhere, including:

  • Shrimp Uggie made by Anthony and Gail Uglesich, who are coming out of retirement to participate
  • Louie Mueller's Texas barbecue and hot sausage
  • Maine Diner seafood chowder
  • Que Crawl Truck Cochon de lait po boy
  • Bud Royer's Pecan Pie from the heart of Texas - a la mode
  • Louisiana Meat Pies and Crawfish Pies from Lasyone's of Nachitoches
  • Click here to see mouth watering food that will be served at the festival.

Roadfood.com and the New Orleans Convention Company are honoring Louisiana's best restaurant cooks and cooks from destination Roadfood restaurants around the country by inviting them to the French Quarter and setting them loose to make their signature dishes for visitors to enjoy.

In addition to the free street festival, which includes 20 vendors, the worlds longest oyster po'boy, and beignet-eating contest, a limited number of tickets are available for very unique and memorable evening events which includes an opening party featuring the First Roadfood Blue Plate Award to Anthony and Gail Uglesich, and a Saturday-night crawfish boil in swamp country.

You could travel for miles and months around the country and you'd still never discover all the great dishes you will find in one weekend in the heart of the French Quarter! Here is an opportunity for passionate eaters to discover the best of the best specialties that define American food at its most colorful.

Admission is free; proceeds from food and beverage sales go to participating restaurants, including New Orleans' own Cafe Reconcile , which provides at-risk kids the opportunity to learn the food service business.

Come. Eat. Drink. Be Merry! Roll up your sleeves and join a festival that is all about savoring America.



Some of the legendary eats you can sample at last years festival


Maine Diner Seafood Chowder
Maine Diner
Wells, Maine
Seafood chowder
Plum Street Snoball
Plum Street Snoballs
New Orleans, Louisana
Snoballs
Royer's Round Top Cafe Pecan Pie
Royer's Round Top Cafe
Round Top, Texas
Pecan Pie
T-Boy's Slaughterhouse Cracklin's
T-Boy's Slaughterhouse
Ville Platte, Louisiana
Cracklin's
Chicken and sausage gumbo
Rouses
New Orleans, Louisiana
Muffaletta
Vaucresson's Sausage
Vaucresson's
New Orleans, Louisiana
Vaucresson Sausage
Sausage and Brisket from Louie Mueller's, Taylor, Texas
Louie Mueller's
Taylor, Texas
Sausage and Brisket
Uglesich
Uglesich's
New Orleans, Louisiana
Shrimp Gail
Antoine's Annex
Antoine's Annex
New Orleans, Louisana
Oyster Foch Po-Boy
Lasyone's Meat Pie
Lasyone's Meat Pie Restaurant
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Crawfish pie
Meat pie
Blue Dog Cafe
Blue Dog Cafe
Lafayette, Louisiana
Crawfish enchiladas
Blue Dog Cafe
Blue Dog Cafe
Lafayette, Louisiana
Chicken and andouille sauce piquante over roasted corn grits
Corn and crab bisque
Tabasco Gator Sausage
Tabasco Country Store
Avery Island, Louisiana
Jambalaya
Cafe Reconcile Strawberry Shortcake
Cafe Reconcile
New Orleans, Louisiana
Strawberry shortcake
Duck Cracklins
The Que Crawl Truck
New Orleans, Louisiana
Duck cracklin
Turtle Alley Chocolates
Turtle Alley
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Pecan turtles
The Brick Pit Pulled Prok
The Brick Pit
Mobile, Alabama
Pulled Pork
Chili from Camp Washington
Camp Washington
Cincinnati, Ohio
5-way Chili
The Brick Pit Pulled Prok
Royal House
New Orleans, Louisiana
Grilled Oysters
Chili from Camp Washington
The Que Crawl Truck
New Orleans, Louisiana
Hand cut French Fries
The Brick Pit Pulled Prok
Dunbar's Seafood
New Orleans, Louisiana
Fried Catfish
Chili from Camp Washington
Cafe Reconcile
New Orleans, Louisiana
Debris Po Boy
The Brick Pit Pulled Prok
Deli at the Cellars
Metairie, Louisiana
Shrimp Remoulade Po Boy
Chili from Camp Washington
Tennessee Williams Festival Booth
Mint Julip



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