Every trip to New Orleans is different than the one that preceded it. Some visits I eat nothing but raw oysters washed down with Barq's rootbeer. Other visits I vector in on soft shell crab and little else. This trip {that is now sadly over} all I wanted were po boys. Giant, fried seafood stuffed po boys, all under $10 and all big enough to easily feed two normal eaters.
Quartermaster Deli sits at the corner of Bourbon and Ursulines in the gay district of the French Quarter. It's open 24/7 and if you don't feel like visiting, they'll send a po boy messenger to you on a bicycle. He'll have your food to you within 45 minutes. Navigating through the drunkards of Bourbon Street via bicycle has got to be a tough way to earn a buck.
Enter the small grocery and walk to the rear past the Zapp's potato chips display. This is where the tiny deli counter vends all sorts of hot, freshly prepared foods. Quartermaster has a fairly ambitious menu but the po boys take center stage. As a Friday-only special, they do one of the better {and cheap} oyster po boys in the Quarter.
The shop is old and the structure has seen better days but the food handling area is conspicuously clean and everything is properly labelled and dated, so ignore the naysayers who claim that the restaurant is not sanitary.
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