A great shopping street with unique French Quarter architecture, impromptu performing musical groups, amazing antique shops and art stores as well as souvenir shops and many excellent restaurants.
A great shopping street with unique French Quarter architecture, impromptu performing musical groups, amazing antique shops and art stores as well as souvenir shops and many excellent restaurants.
Not as famous as Bourbon Street, but Royal Street still provides lots of great things to see and do. Better shopping and fewer bars. Even some really nice art galleries. Great restaurants and hotels. Royal Street is not as noisy or crazy and night and that can be a good thing!
Whenever I visit NOLA, I spend most my time on Royal, between Canal and Jackson Square.
Tons of interesting stops and when I get tired I stop for a cocktail at the Monteleone Hotel.
I love New Orleans. I love the French Quarter. And I love Royal Street, especially. Some think Bourbon Street is the epitome of the French Quarter, but it is balanced out by the magnificent antique and art galleries, exquisite jewelry shops, wonderful bars and restaurants, and other unique establishments of Royal Street. A few blocks over from the Bourbon Street mayhem is an entire different world of elegance and taste.
Royal St. is full of galleries, jewelry shops, unique boutiques and a few very good restaurants. It is worth just walking up and down the street. No other streeet like it in the quarter.
You don't hear as much jazz or see the marching bands that were common in past years, but the charm and the architecture is still in this part of NOLA.