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"New Orleans Insiders&amp;#39; Travel Guide\nAD asks New Orleans insiders\u2014including chef Emeril Lagasse, actors Bryan Batt and John Goodman, decorator Thomas Jayne, and jazz musician Trombone Shorty\u2014to reveal their favorite spots in the Crescent City\nEmeril Lagasse\\n\\nAlthough he is now the chef-proprietor of 13 restaurants across the country, the home base for Emeril Lagasse\u2019s empire has been New Orleans since he opened Emeril\u2019s in 1990. (He also served as the executive chef of the legendary Commander\u2019s Palace for seven and a half years.)\\n\\nMusic/Restaurant/Bar\u2014Snug Harbor\\n\\n\u201COne of my favorite places in NOLA is Snug Harbor,\u201D Lagasse says. \u201CIt\u2019s a great spot to grab a good meal\u2014the burger is my favorite\u2014then enjoy some of the best music in town. It combines two of my favorite things: great food and good music.\u201D 626 Frenchmen St.; 504-949-0696; snugjazz.com\nThomas Jayne\\n\\nFor AD100 designer Thomas Jayne, an 1830 Creole townhouse in the French Quarter serves as a charming pied-\u00E0-terre for family and friends visiting the city.\\n\\nShop\u2014Lucullus\\n\\n\u201CThey do a spectacular job with culinary antiques,\u201D Jayne says. \u201CThere\u2019s arguably nothing like it in the country, and I can\u2019t even think of a European equivalent for the range of styles offered. What\u2019s really great is that a lot of the things in the shop, although they\u2019re antique, are actually usable.\u201D 610 Chartres St.; 504-528-9620; lucullusantiques.com\nSuzanne Rheinstein\\n\\nBorn and raised in New Orleans, AD100 designer Suzanne Rheinstein frequently returns to her hometown to shop for her clients and to source pieces for her Los Angeles boutique Hollyhock.\\n\\nMuseum\u2014Longue Vue House and Gardens\\n\\n\u201CEllen Biddle Shipman, one of the foremost landscape designers of the 1920s, began work on the home in the \u201930s,\u201D Rheinstein explains. \u201CShe also worked on the interiors and with the Platt Brothers, who did the architecture. It\u2019s a wonderful study in very informed upper-class living from the \u201930s through the \u201960s. Everyone who is crazy about design needs to see it.\u201D 7 Bamboo Rd.; 504.488.5488; longuevue.com\nBryan Batt\\n\\nA man as exuberant as the city itself, Bryan Batt continues to work in television, film, and theater while managing his New Orleans boutique Hazelnut.\\n\\nBar\u2014Bellocq at the Hotel Modern\\n\\n\u201CThe last time I was at Bellocq, my partner Tom Cianfichi and I took our dear friend and native New Orleanian Patricia Clarkson for some serious bourbon drinks,\u201D Batt says. \u201CThey were so good I can\u2019t recall their name!\u201D 936 St. Charles Ave.; 504-962-0900; thehotelmodern.com\nLee Ledbetter\\n\\nNew Orleans architect and interior designer Lee Ledbetter, who comfortably mixes historical elements with modernist touches, is fluent in the city\u2019s unique and multifaceted aesthetic vocabulary.\\n\\nShop\u2014French Antique Co.\\n\\n\u201CThey have late-19th and 20th-century Baccarat chandeliers, French and English mantels, an incredible selection of Louis XVI armchairs,\u201D Ledbetter says. \u201CIt\u2019s a treasure trove\u2014all four floors.\u201D 225 Royal St.; 504-524-9861; gofrenchantiques.com\nShop\u2014Loisel Vintage Modern\\n\\n\u201CThe owner is a trained geologist who used to sell antiques out of his garage\u2014he has a great eye,\u201D Ledbetter says. \u201CI recently saw a Salterini chaise with its original cushions and a fantastic Probber stool there. He has vintage Florence Knoll and Hannah and Morrison for Knoll. Plus great Finnish, German, and Italian glass.\u201D 2855 Magazine St.; 504-899-2444; loiselvintagemodern.com\nBrian Sawyer\\n\\nNew York\u2013based architect Brian Sawyer, who worked on Julianne Moore\u2019s charming West Village garden (AD, March 2012), collaborated with Lee Ledbetter on the New Orleans Museum of Art\u2019s Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, which features works by Henry Moore, Louise Bourgeois, Ren\u00E9 Magritte, and rising talent Jean-Michel Othoniel, all surrounded by centuries-old oaks covered with Spanish moss.\\n\\nHotel\u2014Breakfast at the Soniat House\\n\\n\u201CI die for the biscuits, coffee, and juice in the morning,\u201D Sawyer says. \u201CThe hotel is just so genteel, and so is the courtyard with all the bricks and a fountain. Breakfast might take forever because they make the biscuits fresh and deliver them to you in a beautiful basket with a hot brick covered in a beautiful damask napkin to keep them warm. The coffee they serve is French Market chicory that\u2019s so thick it pours like oil. Perfectly served and perfectly delicious.\u201D 1133 Chartres St.; 504-522-0570; soniathouse.com\nJohn Goodman\\n\\nActor John Goodman has long called New Orleans home, and he seems perfectly attuned with the city\u2019s fun-loving vibe. Adding to his Big Easy bona fides, he played the Saints-T-shirt\u2013wearing university professor Creighton Bernette in the HBO series Treme.\\n\\nLandmark\u2014Jackson Square\\n\\n\u201CYou can gaze at the Cathedral, historic Presbyt\u00E8re, Pontalba Apartments, and enjoy a caf\u00E9 au lait while people-watching in the quiet eye of the Vieux Carr\u00E9 storm,\u201D Goodman says.\nTroy Andrews, a.k.a Trombone Shorty\\n\\nWith a sound he describes as \u201Csupafunkrock,\u201D native Troy \u201CTrombone Shorty\u201D Andrews has accumulated a huge following since he began performing at age six. This year, he helped celebrate Mardi Gras at the White House with a blues workshop for students.\\n\\nMusic\u2014Tipitina\u2019s\\n\\n\u201CTipitina\u2019s is like a home base for me for so many years and so many great shows I\u2019ve seen or been a part of,\u201D Andrews says. \u201CBe sure to rub the head of the Professor \u2018Fess\u2019 Longhair bust when you walk in the entrance.\u201D 501 Napoleon Ave.; 504-895-8477; tipitinas.com\nHunt Slonem\\n\\nThe owner of two plantation homes in Louisiana, artist Hunt Slonem enjoys hunting for treasures among the city\u2019s many antiques shops and auction houses.\\n\\nShop\u2014Neal Auction Co.\\n\\n\u201CThe quality is fantastic for mid-19th-century antiques,\u201D Slonem says. \u201CThey have everything my heart desires\u2014marble busts, portraits, and old Paris porcelain. It\u2019s my sensibility to a tee\u2014which is very particular. I\u2019m refinishing my Louisiana homes, and I consider it part of my art to re-create them.\u201D 4038 Magazine St.; 504.899.5329; nealauction.com\nHarry Shearer\\n\\nWith his unmistakable voices on The Simpsons and unforgettable role as Derek Smalls in This Is Spinal Tap, audiences are accustomed to laughing at Harry Shearer\u2019s work. But on a more serious note, the New Orleans resident also wrote and directed The Big Uneasy, an enlightening and moving documentary about the effects of the 2005 flood.\\n\\nMusic\u2014Frenchmen Street\\n\\n\u201CVisitors think the musical heart is Bourbon Street, but that\u2019s the tourist heart,\u201D Shearer says. \u201CFrenchmen Street is an amazing buffet of many types of music\u2014reggae, blues, bluegrass, rock and roll. I live within walking distance, so after dinner I go out and pick which place or places I want to dip into. You can make your own Jazz Fest.\u201D\nChristian Scott, a.k.a Christian aTunde Adjuah\\n\\nTrumpeter Christian Scott has been praised for his ability to introduce jazz to a new generation. The cover of his newly released album, Christian aTunde Adjuah, features him in traditional Mardi Gras Indian garb\u2014a nod to his family roots in New Orleans and the city\u2019s inimitable traditions.\\n\\nMusic\u2014Sweet Lorraine\u2019s Jazz Club\\n\\n\u201CMy favorite place in New Orleans is Sweet Lorraine\u2019s Jazz Club,\u201D Scott says. \u201CIt\u2019s the club where I first cut my teeth. I remember being in there damn near through the night as a teen, listening to cats play everything from new conceptual music to Tiger Leaf Rag. This is where real New Orleanians go to share experiences, laughter, and reverence for what makes the city our own. You can see anything from a block party to a second line with the social aid and pleasure clubs, bones gangs to Indian practice and comedy shows all on the same day.\u201D 1931 Saint Claude Ave.; 504-945-9654; sweetlorrainesjazzclub.com\nSidney D. Torres IV\\n\\nNew Orleans-based real-estate developer and venture capitalist Sidney D. Torres IV chose Irene\u2019s Cuisine restaurant, a French Quarter staple known for its Creole-Italian menu. The boisterous yet cozy restaurant is conveniently located just a few blocks from his home, which was renovated and decorated by Lee Ledbetter and is featured in AD\u2019s September 2012 issue.\\n\\nRestaurant\u2014Irene\u2019s Cuisine\\n\\n\u201CNot only do I love the food but the owners make you feel like you are part of their family,\u201D Torres explains. 539 St. Philip St.; 504-529-8811\nTom Kundig\\n\\nAD100 architect Tom Kundig, highly regarded for his compelling work in the Pacific Northwest, especially his home base of Seattle, may not have any deep roots in New Orleans, but he shares the city\u2019s love for fantastic storytelling.\\n\\nMusic\u2014d.b.a.\\n\\n\u201CMy favorite memory of New Orleans occurred some years ago at d.b.a. on Frenchmen Street,\u201D Kundig says. \u201CThe place was half to three-quarters full; the band was fantastic and mid-set. I was sitting in a corner with some friends when I happened to notice that they were closing the doors. All of a sudden I heard a familiar-sounding harmonica. I stood up on my chair to see what was going on and, sure enough, Stevie Wonder was on stage. He played a few songs with the band and afterwards went around saying hello to folks in the audience. Turns out it was his birthday.\u201D 618 Frenchmen St.; 504-942-3731; drinkgoodstuff.com\nEric Overmyer\\n\\nTo indoctrinate HBO viewers of Treme in the nuanced culture of New Orleans, the show\u2019s cocreator and producer Eric Overmyer drew from the two decades he kept a second home in the city.\\n\\nRestaurant\u2014Galatoire\u2019s\\n\\n\u201CThe gorgeous downstairs room evokes old Creole New Orleans,\u201D Overmyer says, \u201Cwhere a five-hour lunch on a Friday with lots of wine reminds you that New Orleans is one of the few places in America where time is more precious than money.\u201D 209 Bourbon St.; 504-525-2021; galatoires.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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