New Orleans Earns a Spot On Your Holiday Wish List
Traveling for the holidays? With low hotel rates, special culinary offerings, cultural and family events and unique shopping, New Orleans makes the perfect destination.
In December, New Orleans comes alive with music, food and decorations – all with the sounds, scents and sights of the season.
Food lovers will revel in the free daily cooking demonstrations given by the city’s top chefs and have the special opportunity to savor a traditional Creole dinner, the Reveillon, offered in many of New Orleans’ best restaurants. These fixed-price menus include a minimum of four courses and feature such delicacies as Louisiana sweet potato risotto, pecan-crusted venison tenderloin and eggnog creme brulee.
Music afficionados can enjoy free nightly concerts in the magnificent 18th-century St. Louis Cathedral in the historic French Quarter as some of the city’s top jazz, gospel and contemporary musicians perform in full holiday splendor. Visitors can even sing along at the “Caroling in Jackson Square” on Dec. 19, where the songs of the season are sung by candlelight in one of...