New Orleans has a lakefront and most visitors never find it. Lakeshore Drive runs along the top of the seawall on Lake Pontchartrain, ten minutes from the Quarter and a different city entirely. The Blue Crab is at 7900, locally owned, doing Louisiana seafood and an oyster bar with the lake filling the windows. This stretch was the heart of New Orleans lakefront life for generations, back when the Pontchartrain Beach amusement park sat down the road, and it has been slowly coming back. Sunset over Pontchartrain from a table here is the payoff, and it is a payoff most people fly into this city and miss completely. Order oysters, order the crab, and stay for the light.
