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"New Orleans Insiders' 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's empire has been New Orleans since he opened Emeril's in 1990. (He also served as the executive chef of the legendary Commander's Palace for seven and a half years.)\n\nMusic/Restaurant/Bar\u2014Snug Harbor\n\n\"One of my favorite places in NOLA is Snug Harbor,\" Lagasse says. \"It's 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.\" 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\"They do a spectacular job with culinary antiques,\" Jayne says. \"There's arguably nothing like it in the country, and I can't even think of a European equivalent for the range of styles offered. What's really great is that a lot of the things in the shop, although they're antique, are actually usable.\" 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\"Ellen Biddle Shipman, one of the foremost landscape designers of the 1920s, began work on the home in the '30s,\" Rheinstein explains. \"She also worked on the interiors and with the Platt Brothers, who did the architecture. It's a wonderful study in very informed upper-class living from the '30s through the '60s. Everyone who is crazy about design needs to see it.\" 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\"The 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,\" Batt says. \"They were so good I can't recall their name!\" 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's unique and multifaceted aesthetic vocabulary.\n\nShop\u2014French Antique Co.\n\n\"They have late-19th and 20th-century Baccarat chandeliers, French and English mantels, an incredible selection of Louis XVI armchairs,\" Ledbetter says. \"It's a treasure trove\u2014all four floors.\" 225 Royal St.; 504-524-9861; gofrenchantiques.com\nShop\u2014Loisel Vintage Modern\n\n\"The owner is a trained geologist who used to sell antiques out of his garage\u2014he has a great eye,\" Ledbetter says. \"I 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.\" 2855 Magazine St.; 504-899-2444; loiselvintagemodern.com\nBrian Sawyer\n\nNew York\u2013based architect Brian Sawyer, who worked on Julianne Moore's charming West Village garden (AD, March 2012), collaborated with Lee Ledbetter on the New Orleans Museum of Art's 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\"I die for the biscuits, coffee, and juice in the morning,\" Sawyer says. \"The 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's so thick it pours like oil. Perfectly served and perfectly delicious.\" 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's 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\"You 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,\" Goodman says.\nTroy Andrews, a.k.a Trombone Shorty\n\nWith a sound he describes as \"supafunkrock,\" native Troy \"Trombone Shorty\" 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's\n\n\"Tipitina's is like a home base for me for so many years and so many great shows I've seen or been a part of,\" Andrews says. \"Be sure to rub the head of the Professor \u2018Fess' Longhair bust when you walk in the entrance.\" 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's many antiques shops and auction houses.\n\nShop\u2014Neal Auction Co.\n\n\"The quality is fantastic for mid-19th-century antiques,\" Slonem says. \"They have everything my heart desires\u2014marble busts, portraits, and old Paris porcelain. It's my sensibility to a tee\u2014which is very particular. I'm refinishing my Louisiana homes, and I consider it part of my art to re-create them.\" 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's 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\"Visitors think the musical heart is Bourbon Street, but that's the tourist heart,\" Shearer says. \"Frenchmen 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.\"\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's inimitable traditions.\n\nMusic\u2014Sweet Lorraine's Jazz Club\n\n\"My favorite place in New Orleans is Sweet Lorraine's Jazz Club,\" Scott says. \"It's 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.\" 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's 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's September 2012 issue.\n\nRestaurant\u2014Irene's Cuisine\n\n\"Not only do I love the food but the owners make you feel like you are part of their family,\" 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's love for fantastic storytelling.\n\nMusic\u2014d.b.a.\n\n\"My favorite memory of New Orleans occurred some years ago at d.b.a. on Frenchmen Street,\" Kundig says. \"The 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.\" 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's cocreator and producer Eric Overmyer drew from the two decades he kept a second home in the city.\n\nRestaurant\u2014Galatoire's\n\n\"The gorgeous downstairs room evokes old Creole New Orleans,\" Overmyer says, \"where 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.\" 209 Bourbon St.; 504-525-2021; galatoires.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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