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Powell's
You don't have to trek far from the French Quarter for honest to gosh soul food, but you do have to be somewhat adventurous. Often, you'll know you're approaching it because it's the only place on the block you're likely to see people hanging out on the sidewalk. It's the real deal, where friendly folks are pleased to set you up with heaping plate lunches of red beans and rice, pork chops, smothered chicken and the like. It's all slid into a styrofoam container for your takeaway pleasure.
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Praline Connection
Here's where you can get soul food without venturing into the 'hood. The kitchen gets it right where it counts. Fried chicken and catfish platters are aces, and greens come in all the right varieties - collards, mustards and cabbages. Diners can have their choice of red beans, white beans, lima beans or crowder peas, as well as stewed chicken, turkey necks and fried chicken livers. Not bad for a slick joint like this one. It's all served up by cool waiters decked out like blues brothers.
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Red Eye Grill
A grungy bar in the Warehouse District (for those 21 years and up), the Red Eye is strictly for greasy burgers and fries. It's convenient if you're seeing a show at one of the nearby clubs.
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Tee-Eva's Creole Soul Food
This colorful take-out stand serves snacks that can cool you off or satiate a sweet tooth. Snowballs and pralines are the specialties, but owner Tee-Eva often prepares hot lunches - baked chicken or plates of red beans and rice. She's a hot number herself, having sung backup vocals with the late, great Ernie K-Doe's Burn K-Doe Burn Band. When we dropped by, in early 2006, Tee Eva still wasn't up and running, but expect her to return.
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