Parkside Cafe

This is a hole in the wall bar, but the poboys are better than anywhere in the GNO. wait times are high but anything else would screw this up AA++++!!! We eat here frequently.

They have a short menu but the poboys are great! They will fix you a ½ & ½ of any two items on the menu i.e. shrimp & fish. The décor is ancient but I’m there for the food. One of the best secrets on the Westbank… I eat there at least once a week…

Well, I gotta imagine that this place was the bomb back in the 80s. The décor, imagine a kinda groovy ski lodge looking place. A long narrow, two floored club with wall to wall carpeting. A lot like the old Don Carter’s bowling lanes had. Kinda puffy looking in there with a disco kinda vibe. Now fast forward to 2013… musty flattened carpets. Most light fixtures no longer work and ceiling tiles and other tapestries and missing, sagging or piled up in the corner like an old barber shop.
The bar and bartender are much the same way. Nice person, fast and friendly but it just feels off in there. Like a alternate reality thing happened in here.
They are known for the food, but mostly the main thing they can do well is cheese fries. That is why we had stumbled in there that night. Cheese fries and just change of scenery. Things were going really well till one of our female friends noticed a Algiers sized flying type cockroach running along the floor and another coming from the cooking station. Check please!
I do suggest check it out and see if you can see how this place was probably, well I do know for a fact it was the bomb in the late 80s, but saddened that it isn’t anymore.

So far the best PoBoy I’ve had in New Orleans. Tasty well seasoned fried shrimp, great bread, perfect dressing. The layout and ordering technique was slightly awkward, but not everything can be cookie cutter. Have yet to try anything else, but the gf loved hers and I guess Obama went there, so it has to be good, right?