The wife and I just did a couple nights without the kids to celebrate our birthdays.
Stayed at Hotel Saint Vincent in the LGD. Pricey, and our room was pretty small, but it was very nice.
The weather was amazing and made walking down Magazine from our hotel to shops etc very enjoyable.
Eats:
Turkey and the Wolf - fried bologna sandwich - very good
GW Fins - lobster dumplings, firecracker tuna tacos, scalibut, seared yellowfin tuna, sweet corn spoonbread, salty malty ice cream pie - everything was outstanding and lived up to the hype
San Lorenzo, breakfast at the hotel - french omelette, buttermilk pancakes
Beignets at Cafe Du Monde - touristy, but whatever, I'd actually never been. Don't need to go back.
Mahony's - fried shrimp po-boys(maybe the best I've had), red beans and rice, onion rings - a local friend told me this was his fave for po-boys
Clancy's - fried oysters w/ brie, fried eggplant, gumbo, fried gulf fish w/ lump crab meat and meuniere sauce, risotto w/ lobster and wild mushrooms - one of my favorite meals I've had in a very long time. Ate and drank too much and had to go back to the hotel and pass out after we closed down the place.
Also went to Preservation Hall, Arnaud's French 75 Bar, Bacchanal, Chapel Club, Jewel of the South
Excellent trip and can't wait to go back.