Looking for a gay-friendly restaurant near lots of action where you can get good soul food at a fair price? Well, demanding though that request might be, the city of New Orleans knows how to provide exactly what you are looking for and the Praline Connection may be just the restaurant to suit your needs. Located in the midst of several blocks of bars and restaurants, the Praline Connection stands out as an unpretentious New Orleans restaurant where the atmosphere is fine but the food is finer.
If you go to this gay-friendly restaurant with a group, make sure to get the combination appetizer plate which includes soul food samplers in the way that only New Orleans can provide. If the softshell crawfish and chicken livers are a bit too much to swallow, you can snap up the spicy chicken wings and okra and amuse yourself with watching the rest of your group try new things. If you're itching to be brave yourself, there's gumbo and jambalaya and po-boys galore to choose from at Praline Connection. But for those of you who know that vanilla is more than just a preference, there are plainer things on the menu as well, all cooked with the same love and care that only those in the south know how to put it in to their food.
Southern folk know how to eat so you should know that your portions will be large but try to save room for bread pudding at the end of the meal. The best way to do this is to allow yourself to be pleasantly distracted from the food on your plate by looking around at the fedora-topped waiters in this black-and-white decor space. Oh, and if you wake up too late to get to church on Sunday, try the gospel jazz brunch at this gay-friendly restaurant instead.
