Pralines
Southern Candymakers
Warm pralines handed over in a wax sleeve. The smell hits Decatur before the door does.
French Quarter$
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Pralines
Loretta's Pralines
French Market pralines with a following that is older than social video. Get the classic, then decide if you need pecan drama.
French Market$
Desserts
Sucré
Macarons, gelato, and the dressed-up dessert stop on Magazine. A clean landing after a long walk.
Garden District$$
Sno-balls
Imperial Woodpecker
The dressed-up snowball. Small-batch syrups — cardamom cream, cereal milk, king cake — on a Magazine Street walk.
Magazine Street$$
Shopping & art
Royal Street
Antiques, galleries, and musicians who set up in the closed-to-cars blocks. The civilized face of the Quarter.
French Quarter$$
Shopping
French Market
The open-air market and flea market along the river. Spices, masks, pralines, and a lot of things you do not need.
French Quarter$
Shopping
Magazine Street
Six miles of shops, bookstores, and rooms to eat. The streetcar is parallel on St. Charles; the walking is the point for a few blocks at a time.
Uptown & Garden District$$
Architecture
Garden District walk
Iron galleries, live oaks, Commander's turquoise fence, and the Rink for a book. The walk is the tour. You do not need a guide unless you want the gossip.
Garden District$
Books
Faulkner House Books
A tiny shop in the alley behind the cathedral, in a building Faulkner lived in. One room, serious shelves.
French Quarter$$
Books
Garden District Book Shop
In The Rink, the neighborhood bookshop with a deep local-interest table. The right stop on a Garden District walk.
Garden District$$
Books
Octavia Books
An Uptown independent with a staff that reads. Quiet, serious, a good hour if Magazine Street has worn you out.
Uptown$$
Books
Blue Cypress Books
Used books on Oak Street, the kind of shop that smells right. A Carrollton errand before the Maple Leaf.
Carrollton$
Books
Community Book Center
A Black-owned bookshop on Bayou Road, a small cultural strip of galleries and food. The shelves are the city's conversation, not the airport's.
Bayou Road$$
Run club
Varsity Sports
The Uptown running store. Staff fit shoes and post the social miles that leave from this door. A visitor can show up for the group run without joining anything.
Uptown$$
Run club
Louisiana Running + Walking
Mid-City running shop. Group runs from here connect Bayou St. John and the Lafitte Greenway. Useful if you need shoes and a route on the same errand.
Mid-City$$
Books
Baldwin & Co.
Bookstore, coffee, and a room people use to write. About 75k followers. Events and the podcast are on the page. A Marigny afternoon that is not a bar.
Marigny$$
Hotel
Hotel Saint Vincent
A former orphanage turned design hotel with a pool, on lower Magazine. Shopping out the door, downtown a cheap rideshare away.
Lower Garden District$$$$
Herb shop
Miss Anne's Maypop Herb Shop
Sicangu Lakota owned. Bulk herbs, teas, and consultations in a Creole cottage. The flyer says a grand opening Saturday, October 24, 2026, noon to 4, with tea, music, and a ribbon. Listings also show 11 to 6. This is not a Quarter walk.
Seventh Ward$
Tattoo
Art Addiction Tattoo
Women-owned tattoo and piercing shop on the West Bank. The listing says Monday through Thursday 1 to 8, Friday and Saturday 1 to 9, Sunday closed. Walk-ins are welcome. A Friday the 13th flash is posted for November 2026.
Terrytown$$$
Thrift
Funky Monkey
Vintage and consignment on Magazine: jackets, boots, a Mardi Gras costume when the season is on. A listing has them 11 to 6 early in the week, until 7 Thursday through Saturday, and Sunday from noon.
Irish Channel$$