Café Du Monde City Park NOLA

Right now Steve and I are enjoying our time in our favorite city, New Orleans. We awoke to a glorious day and decided to go out for breakfast at Café Du Monde in City Park NOLA.

Café Du Monde City Park NOLA

Most of you have heard of Café Du Monde. It’s one of the first place people think of when they think of NOLA. For years Steve and I had no idea there was more than one location. The only site we knew of was near Jackson Square in the French Market. The lines there always seem endless. And waiting for a table for an hour is not something we enjoy.

Occasionally, Steve would ride his bike there and then bring those pillowy powdered sugary fried puffs, back to our RV or hotel room for our breakfast. It was heaven. But the beignet would cool on his ride and the bags of beignet would end up filled with about a pound of confectioners sugar that had hardened into little sugar rocks. Don’t get me wrong. They were still quite tasty, but not as good as they are hot out of the fryer.

Then last year, when we staying in New Orleans for five and a half months, he discovered that they had another location in City Park. And since our RV park is only about a 5 minute drive from City Park, he drive over and pick some up. He’d arrive back at Ladybug with beignet that were still a little bit warm. They were fabulous.

I think the last time that we had them hot from the fryer was probably the first time we had them, on our first visit to New Orleans in 1991. And that was in the original location in the French Quarter. But our visit to the City Park location was so much more beautiful, especially on such a gorgeous day.

We ordered our beignet and chicory coffee and took them outside to enjoy in the sunshine. And while we were sitting there we were serenaded by a Jazz musician and people blowing bubbles with a unique version of a bubble maker. The view was almost as delicious as the chicory coffee and beignet. Somehow this combo has become synonymous with The Big Easy.

By the way, when I’m missing NOLA I usually make a batch of beignet from their Café Du Monde Beignet mix and brew a pot of their chicory coffee. Both are available both at their multiple store locations and online from the Café Du Monde website!!!

Café du Monde history

The Original Café Du Monde Coffee Stand was established over 150 years ago, in 1862, in the French Market of New Orleans. Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Café Du Monde closes only on Christmas Day and on days when an occasional Hurricane passes too close to New Orleans for comfort.

Fernandez Family History

Hubert Fernandez bought the Café Du Monde Coffee Stand in May 1942 from Fred Koeniger. Back then Mr. Fernandez was the owner of Fernandez Wine Cellar located on the ground floor of the Pontalba Apartment building across from the Café Du Monde. The Fernandez family decided to close the Wine Cellar in 1972 in order to focus entirely on Café Du Monde.

The site of the French Market and of New Orleans itself, dates back to the Choctaw Indians, before the New World was settled by Europeans. The Choctaw Indians used this natural Mississippi river levee location as a spot to trade their wares to the river traffic. Early European settlers would come by boat to this site and sell produce and dairy products. In 1718 the City of New Orleans was established on this location of the Mississippi River by Jean Baptiste LeMoyne. This old New Orleans area is known as Vieux Carre in French. The English translation for Vieux Carre is French Quarter.

Beautiful City Park in New Orleans

If you are looking for a classic taste of New Orleans, go to our favorite location for beignets – Café Du Monde City Park NOLA, or any of their locations around town!!!