The original Café du Monde Coffee Stand, at 800 Decatur Street, was established at the upper end of the New Orleans French Market in 1862. Since then it has been serving its chicory flavored café au lait and French-style beignets 24 hours a day, 7 seven days a week, except for Christmas Day and when ""the occasional hurricane passes too close to New Orleans." Café du Monde has been owned by the Fernandez family since Hubert Fernandez bought it from Fred Koeniger in 1942.
Café du Monde's dark roasted Coffee and Chicory is traditionally served Au Lait, mixed half and half with hot milk, but also available black. Since 1988, it has also been offered iced. Coffee first came to North America by way of New Orleans in the mid-1700's. It was successfully cultivated in Martinique about 1720, and the French brought coffee with them as they began to settle new colonies along the Mississippi. The taste for coffee and chicory was developed by the French during their civil war. Coffee was scarce during those times, and they found that chicory added body and flavor to the brew. The Acadians from Nova Scotia brought this taste and many other french customs to Louisiana. Chicory is the root of the endive plant, which is roasted and ground and added to the coffee to soften the bitter edge, adding an slight chocolate flavor.
Beignets were also brought to Louisiana by the Acadians. These were fried fritters, sometimes filled with fruit. Today, the beignet is a square piece of dough, fried and covered with powdered sugar. The French-style doughnuts are served in orders of three at Café du Monde.
For over a century Café du Monde was one of two coffee stands in the market, but Morning Call, established in 1870, moved to Metairie in 1974. The Fernandez family expanded in 1985, with a second location in The Esplanade Mall, located in Kenner, and then again in 1986 in Rouse Co.'s Riverwalk Marketplace. While it once expanded as far away as Atlanta, Georgia, in recent years the company has restricted its operation to the greater New Orleans metro area. Café du Monde locations can also be found throughout Japan.
Vieux Carré Historic District National Register #66000377 (1966)
Cafe Du Monde was featured on the Travel Channel show, Man Vs. Food (Episode 9)
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The original Café du Monde Coffee Stand, at 800 Decatur Street, was established at the upper end of the New Orleans French Market in 1862. Since then it has been serving its chicory flavored café au lait and French-style beignets 24 hours a day, 7 seven days a week, except for Christmas Day and when ""the occasional hurricane passes too close to New Orleans." Café du Monde has been owned by the Fernandez family since Hubert Fernandez bought it from Fred Koeniger in 1942.
Café du Monde's dark roasted Coffee and Chicory is traditionally served Au Lait, mixed half and half with hot milk, but also available black. Since 1988, it has also been offered iced. Coffee first came to North America by way of New Orleans in the mid-1700's. It was successfully cultivated in Martinique about 1720, and the French brought coffee with them as they began to settle new colonies along the Mississippi. The taste for coffee and chicory was developed by the French during their civil war. Coffee was scarce during those times, and they found that chicory added body and flavor to the brew. The Acadians from Nova Scotia brought this taste and many other french customs to Louisiana. Chicory is the root of the endive plant, which is roasted and ground and added to the coffee to soften the bitter edge, adding an slight chocolate flavor.
Beignets were also brought to Louisiana by the Acadians. These were fried fritters, sometimes filled with fruit. Today, the beignet is a square piece of dough, fried and covered with powdered sugar. The French-style doughnuts are served in orders of three at Café du Monde.
For over a century Café du Monde was one of two coffee stands in the market, but Morning Call, established in 1870, moved to Metairie in 1974. The Fernandez family expanded in 1985, with a second location in The Esplanade Mall, located in Kenner, and then again in 1986 in Rouse Co.'s Riverwalk Marketplace. While it once expanded as far away as Atlanta, Georgia, in recent years the company has restricted its operation to the greater New Orleans metro area. Café du Monde locations can also be found throughout Japan.
Vieux Carré Historic District National Register #66000377 (1966)
Cafe Du Monde was featured on the Travel Channel show, Man Vs. Food (Episode 9)
Tags: New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Café du Monde Café du Monde Coffee Stand coffee stand Coffee shop French Market restaurant Cafe du Monde NOLA Orleans Parish Orleans County Vieux Carré Vieux Carre landmark awning Vieux Carre Historic District Vieux Carré Historic District national register of historic places NRHP U.S. National Register of Historic Places historic district U.S. Historic District manvsfood
The original Café du Monde Coffee Stand, at 800 Decatur Street, was established at the upper end of the New Orleans French Market in 1862. Since then it has been serving its chicory flavored café au lait and French-style beignets 24 hours a day, 7 seven days a week, except for Christmas Day and when ""the occasional hurricane passes too close to New Orleans." Café du Monde has been owned by the Fernandez family since Hubert Fernandez bought it from Fred Koeniger in 1942.
Café du Monde's dark roasted Coffee and Chicory is traditionally served Au Lait, mixed half and half with hot milk, but also available black. Since 1988, it has also been offered iced. Coffee first came to North America by way of New Orleans in the mid-1700's. It was successfully cultivated in Martinique about 1720, and the French brought coffee with them as they began to settle new colonies along the Mississippi. The taste for coffee and chicory was developed by the French during their civil war. Coffee was scarce during those times, and they found that chicory added body and flavor to the brew. The Acadians from Nova Scotia brought this taste and many other french customs to Louisiana. Chicory is the root of the endive plant, which is roasted and ground and added to the coffee to soften the bitter edge, adding an slight chocolate flavor.
Beignets were also brought to Louisiana by the Acadians. These were fried fritters, sometimes filled with fruit. Today, the beignet is a square piece of dough, fried and covered with powdered sugar. The French-style doughnuts are served in orders of three at Café du Monde.
For over a century Café du Monde was one of two coffee stands in the market, but Morning Call, established in 1870, moved to Metairie in 1974. The Fernandez family expanded in 1985, with a second location in The Esplanade Mall, located in Kenner, and then again in 1986 in Rouse Co.'s Riverwalk Marketplace. While it once expanded as far away as Atlanta, Georgia, in recent years the company has restricted its operation to the greater New Orleans metro area. Café du Monde locations can also be found throughout Japan.
Vieux Carré Historic District National Register #66000377 (1966)
Cafe Du Monde was featured on the Travel Channel show, Man Vs. Food (Episode 9)
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The original Café du Monde Coffee Stand, at 800 Decatur Street, was established at the upper end of the New Orleans French Market in 1862. Since then it has been serving its chicory flavored café au lait and French-style beignets 24 hours a day, 7 seven days a week, except for Christmas Day and when ""the occasional hurricane passes too close to New Orleans." Café du Monde has been owned by the Fernandez family since Hubert Fernandez bought it from Fred Koeniger in 1942.
Café du Monde's dark roasted Coffee and Chicory is traditionally served Au Lait, mixed half and half with hot milk, but also available black. Since 1988, it has also been offered iced. Coffee first came to North America by way of New Orleans in the mid-1700's. It was successfully cultivated in Martinique about 1720, and the French brought coffee with them as they began to settle new colonies along the Mississippi. The taste for coffee and chicory was developed by the French during their civil war. Coffee was scarce during those times, and they found that chicory added body and flavor to the brew. The Acadians from Nova Scotia brought this taste and many other french customs to Louisiana. Chicory is the root of the endive plant, which is roasted and ground and added to the coffee to soften the bitter edge, adding an slight chocolate flavor.
Beignets were also brought to Louisiana by the Acadians. These were fried fritters, sometimes filled with fruit. Today, the beignet is a square piece of dough, fried and covered with powdered sugar. The French-style doughnuts are served in orders of three at Café du Monde.
For over a century Café du Monde was one of two coffee stands in the market, but Morning Call, established in 1870, moved to Metairie in 1974. The Fernandez family expanded in 1985, with a second location in The Esplanade Mall, located in Kenner, and then again in 1986 in Rouse Co.'s Riverwalk Marketplace. While it once expanded as far away as Atlanta, Georgia, in recent years the company has restricted its operation to the greater New Orleans metro area. Café du Monde locations can also be found throughout Japan.
Vieux Carré Historic District National Register #66000377 (1966)
Cafe Du Monde was featured on the Travel Channel show, Man Vs. Food (Episode 9)
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Central Grocery Company, at 923 Decatur Street in the French Quarter, is a small, old-fashioned Italian-American grocery store. Salvatore Lupo, a Sicilian immigrant, opened the store in 1906 and operated it until 1946 when he retired and his son-in-law, Frank Tusa took over. Today it is owned by Salvatore T. Tusa, Salvatore's grandson and two cousins.
It is famous as the original home of the muffuletta, which Lupo invented to feed the Sicilian truck farmers who sold their produce at the Farmer's Market. Pronounced moo-foo-LET-ta by the Central Grocery proprietors, or muff-uh-LOT-uh by locals, or simply referred to as a "muff", it was only known locally known until the late 1960s. As tourism in the French Quarter grew, so did the sandwich's fame. A typical muffuletta consists of one round muffuletta loaf, about 10 inches wide and split horizontally. The loaf is then covered with a marinated olive salad, then layers of capicola, salami, mortadella, emmentaler, and provolone. The olive salad is considered the heart of the sandwich, and consists primarily of olives, along with celery, cauliflower, carrot, and seasonings, covered in olive oil and allowed to combine for at least 24 hours.
The crowded storefront offers modest seating in the back, but most take their large muffuletta to go...and usually with a bag full of other Italian, French, Spanish and Greek table delicacies including less mainstream selections like chocolate covered grasshoppers and bumble bees in soy sauce.
Vieux Carré Historic District National Register #66000377 (1966)
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