Yum! I'm jealous of the food you'll be eating soon @Hoofy7! My favorite thing in NOLA was all the amazing food. I don't do saltines, just straight horseradish cocktail sauce!
Good to know about Palace Station @nancypants, we never venture off the strip but there are so many great food places we're missing out on.
Word of warning to NEVER order clams from Beauty and Essex in Vegas. We got a dozen and some were BAD! You could smell them as you picked them up! How a restaurant like that actually served them and the person shucking them couldn't tell, I'll never know. If you've ever shucked your own, you know immediately when it's bad! The staff barely seemed concerned when we told them and sent it back.