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Originally Posted by RolloTomasi
Depends on what part of LA.
You can't go wrong in New Orleans, particularly the French Quarter.
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I once got caught in an ice storm while on business in Texas and had to spontaneously spend the night in a cheap motel in Huntsville, Texas. Texas troopers had closed I-45. The Holiday Inn was sold out, so cheap motel next door it was.
Right down the street from the state prison where Texas executions take place.
I made it through the icy parking lot of my cheap hotel to the Holiday Inn "lounge" next door. I met a girl also caught up spontaneously in the road closure who had a room at the Holiday Inn and decided to head to the bar to make the best of the night.
She had a German accent, and told me she was running from some personal troubles in New Orleans and was headed to Los Angeles.
She claimed to have been a chef or chef assistant in many of the known New Orleans dining establishments. After a few drinks she offered, "let me tell you something, every New Orleans restaurant kitchen is infested with cock roaches...they can't get rid of them, no matter what they do."
Turns out she was running from a male in her life , but that subject didn't come up immediately upon meeting her.
Her legacy is that I have not really looked forward to fine dining in the French Quarter in the years since. I go with stuff that seems the germs would have been safely killed. Fried gator tail, on my last visit.