I am talking about the restaurant called Toast again. Not because I particularly want to. Toast is a neighborhood breakfast and lunch place in the Fairgrounds Triangle, next to the race track. Everyone in neighborhood dines at Toast at some point over the course of a month. Visitors to New Orleans enjoy the cordial ambiance and toothsome cuisine. I am watching the chef cook up three orders at the same time, poetry in motion.
The Fairgrounds Toast is located at 1845 Gentilly Boulevard. If you want to mail them a thank you note after you visit, the zip code is 70119. It is about a fifteen minute walk from our house, La Belle Esplanade, to get there.
We live in a beautiful part of New Orleans. You can, too, for as long as you like. We look forward to sharing our neighborhood with you. It is like where you live, only it’s better.
New Orleans living is city living, though New Orleans looks like no other city on Planet Earth.
I met a man from the Czech Republic at Toast this morning. You never know what you will find when you turn a corner in New Orleans. Everyone is talkative. Everyone is happy to share what they know.
The Fairgrounds Toast doesn’t change its menu between breakfast and lunch. The Fairgrounds Toast is not open for dinner, but there is an excellent, low-key, authentic Thai street food restaurant next door. And a bar that caters to jockeys. The bar is called Jockey’s Pub. People from the Fairgrounds Triangle neighborhood go there to watch sports.
You can eat breakfast or lunch at Toast in any order that you like. Toast is a neighborhood landmark, a gathering place where people come and go to learn what is happening in this wonderful city we call home.
It is not rocket science to be nice to people. The staff at Toast provide service at a homey, artisanal level that has every one leaving satisfied until they come back for more.
Stay at La Belle Esplanade while you are in New Orleans. We can meet at Toast for breakfast. We can talk about what’s going on in the city. No topic is taboo. This is New Orleans. Good conversation is only a fifteen-minute, picturesque stroll away.