{"id":13771,"date":"2015-03-15T11:23:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T16:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=13771"},"modified":"2015-03-15T11:23:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T16:23:39","slug":"krystal-review-bourbon-street-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=13771","title":{"rendered":"Krystal Review &#8211; Bourbon Street, New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13773\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Krystal-3-4-2015-10-08-55-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13773\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Krystal-3-4-2015-10-08-55-AM-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Krystal Bourbon Street Review\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Sliders to the rescue!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?s=Krystal&amp;search=Search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written a bunch on the Krystal <\/a>chain, the south&#8217;s version of White Castle. \u00a0It&#8217;s fascinating to me that these two chains, with nearly identical concepts, sprang up at the same time in different parts of the country; \u00a0it&#8217;s also fascinating that one hasn&#8217;t gobbled up the other. \u00a0White Castle is still family owned, Krystal was swallowed by a private equity group, so it&#8217;s the latter that has the cash these days.<\/p>\n<p>I like both chains, and since they rarely overlap in the same market, I get to patronize both equally, depending on where I am in the country. \u00a0This location is strategically placed at the entrance \/ exit to Bourbon Street, is open 24\/7 and their slider burgers are perfect to soak up excessive Hurricanes (the cocktail kind).<\/p>\n<p>They have breakfast sandwiches in the morning, charge $3.00 to use their bathroom (or a purchase) and also have an ATM. It&#8217;s a relaxing place (most times) to sit and stare out the window at the Bourbon Street crowd. \u00a0I&#8217;m thinking four burger sliders is the right amount for breakfast. \u00a0And I&#8217;m always right.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also right next door to <a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2014\/04\/bourbon-house-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dickie Brennan&#8217;s Bourbon House<\/a>, one of the Quarter&#8217;s great local restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/57\/621055\/restaurant\/Central-Business-District\/Krystal-New-Orleans\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/621055\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Krystal on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>krystal review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a bunch on the Krystal chain, the south&#8217;s version of White Castle. \u00a0It&#8217;s fascinating to me that these two chains, with nearly identical concepts, sprang up at the same time in different parts of the country; \u00a0it&#8217;s also fascinating that one hasn&#8217;t gobbled up the other. \u00a0White Castle is still family owned, Krystal&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=13771\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Krystal Review &#8211; Bourbon Street, New Orleans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,12,16],"tags":[2048,2431],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13771"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}