Cafe Du Monde to reopen Wednesday (if you know what it is, you're excited)

[jobycom]

To everyone who said New Orleans was dead:

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWL101305cafe.ef1084fc.html


After the longest break in its 153-year history, Cafe Du Monde will once again fill New Orleans' Jackson Square with the luscious smell of beignets and rich, chicory-laced coffee.

The French Quarter landmark known to tourists the world over for its fried dollops of dough dusted with powdered sugar is getting ready to reopen next week, a month and a half after being shut down by Hurricane Katrina.

Cafe Du Monde normally stays open 24 hours a day, 364 days a year, closing only on Christmas. But it sold the last order of hot beignets at midnight on Aug. 27, a day and a half before the storm roared in and devastated New Orleans.

The cafe had only minor damage from Katrina, but a combination of storm-related problems -- no power, no drinkable water and no electricity for several weeks -- kept it closed.

Its owners also took advantage of the shutdown to clean and upgrade kitchen appliances and other parts of the business that are constantly in use.

The reopening is set for Wednesday at 6 a.m. -- not soon enough for locals and relief workers.

[Shell Beau]

1. Yippee!!

:woohoo:

[GOPisEvil]

2. I suspect the line to get in will be long!

Good! That's the way it should be.

[jobycom]

6. Hope so! It usually was before.

I haven't actually eaten there in about fifteen years, maybe more. I just walk by it when I'm there and think "Maybe next time." Glad to know I can still think that.

[cssmall]

3. *cries* I want. . . I want. . . . .

[asthmaticeog]

4. Excellent.

Last time I was in N.O. was for three days. I ate there five times.

[madinmaryland]

5. I so wish I could go down there!!!

The beignets and coffee was the BEST!!!!!!!

[DemBones DemBones]

7. "The coffee is strong At the Cafe du Monde, The doughnuts are

too hot to touch, But just like a fool, When those sweet goodies cool, I eat 'til I eat way too much."

(Jimmy Buffett)

[jobycom]

8. Jimmy is god!