Photos of the 2012 Oak Street Poboy Festival

As I mentioned yesterday, now that I moved to New Orleans, I have discovered that there are free festivals almost every weekend with music, food and art vendors.  Here are highlights of the Highlights of the 2012 Oak Street Poboy Festival which occurred a block from where I live. The 2012 Festival's Featured Charity is Tipitina's Foundation.  There were tens of thousands of people there. We went to a series of talks on the origin of poboys and local lost restaurants. Before Katrina there were over 800 restaurants in New Orleans and now there are over 1300.  There are over twenty good ones walking distance of my house It is hard to choose. The image below is from the event Web site. 

There were 26 food vendors at the festival with every kind of poboy you can imagine and then some! - even fried lobster poboys. We had from the following: GW Fins – fried lobster poboy, Chiba – short ribs and tempura shrimp steamed buns, Jacque Imo’s - roast duck poboy, Palate - Shrimp corn dogs, Big Fisherman – crawfish pies, Mondo – pastrami, Gruyere and pickled slaw poboy and an Asian Sesame Oyster poboy from unknown vendor. Music included Flow Tribe, Honey Island Swamp Band and our neighbor Chad Toups’ two band’s playing on another neighbor’s porch – Mowath and ZamaPara. There was also a stage for young musicians like the one below.