Friends Picks for New Orleans Mardi Gras Week

Friends picks for New Orleans Mardi Gras week are the places the people you follow have rated or saved, shown on the map and on your Home screen in the Mosey app. Follow friends before the week begins, share your own places and use three kinds of tourism-board favorite, a gumbo kitchen, a po-boy shop and a king cake bakery, as a starting point.

What are friends picks for New Orleans Mardi Gras week?

Mardi Gras week is crowded, closed-off and hungry. Streets close, lines grow and everyone in your group has a different idea of lunch. Friends' picks help because they replace a vague tip with specific places someone you know rated or saved.

In the Mosey app, "Follow people to see what they rate and save." You find people by name or @handle under "Find people", and what they rate or save then appears in your Following tab and, in "This week with friends" on Home, as "{name} rated it" or "{name} saved it". The feature shows only what your friends have actually done, so it is empty until you follow people and they rate things.

How does the Friends picks map layer work in New Orleans?

Open the map and tap "Explore the map". The layers are Everywhere, Friends' picks and Open now. Choose Friends' picks and the map shows places that people you follow have rated or saved, and "Search this area" lets you move around the neighborhood you are in. Choose Open now to see what is open at the moment, which matters when parades have closed a street and you need somewhere nearby.

Nothing here says any place will appear: the layer reflects your friends' activity only. If no one you follow has been to New Orleans, the layer will be quiet, which is a good reason to ask a few friends to follow you before the trip, and to rate a few places yourself in the weeks before. Your first few ratings are the most useful ones, because the app builds from them: a dish rating, a tag, a line of text.

What does This week with friends show during Mardi Gras?

"This week with friends" is a section of the Home screen that lists recent activity from people you follow. During Mardi Gras week it can show the po-boy a friend rated on the parade route or the king cake a cousin saved. It is not a feed of New Orleans, only of the people you follow, so it works best with a group of friends who rate their meals.

Ask your group to use the same habit: rate the dish, not just the place, and tag who you were with. A rating that names the po-boy, says how the line moved and how the bread held up is more useful to a friend than three stars alone. Agree on one list before the week starts, so the picks end up in one place and not scattered across messages.

Which places do friends pick for Mardi Gras week?

You decide, but three places turn up in the tourism board's Mardi Gras tips for locals and in local magazine coverage, and they are a safe place to start.

• A Treme kitchen is known for gumbo and for its crawfish bisque.
• A Bayou St. John shop is known for po-boys, and a magazine item covers its seasonal sandwich.
• A Vietnamese bakery in New Orleans East is known for king cake, which a recent magazine guide covers.

These are not rankings or a promise anyone will have a table. For the food of the day itself, our Mardi Gras Day food guide goes into more detail.

How do you share Mardi Gras places with friends?

There are two ways. First, rate your meals and your friends will see them if they follow you. Second, make a list and share it. Name it, say Mardi Gras week, add places with a note on each, and choose who sees it. "Share an invite link" lets friends join as collaborators even if they are not on Mosey yet, and "Invite people" works for those you follow who follow you back. Everyone in the group can then add the place that worked for them.

Use "Who were you with?" on a rating to tag the friends at the table. They can add their own rating of the same meal, so one lunch can carry three opinions. The ratings page shows the steps, and the lists page covers sharing.

How do you follow friends who eat in New Orleans?

Search by name or @handle under "Find people" and follow them. If you want to see what a friend rated, follow first and look in the Following tab. If they follow you back, you can invite them to a list. You can also message a place, rating or list to someone who follows you back, which is handy when the group splits up on a parade route and needs one address.

Where next in the city?

For another kind of group plan, the king cake season guide covers the bakeries, and the Saints game day guide covers stadium Sundays. The New Orleans hub lists every page for the city, and the US food guides cover other towns.

Get the Mosey app, follow your group before the week begins and rate every dish you share.