Central Grocery 923 Decatur Street, French Quarter
Central Grocery is the home of the muffuletta. The muffuletta is a sandwich created in New Orleans by Sicilian Americans in 1906. Many consider this to be the quintessential muffuletta in the city. You'll hear lots of New Orleanians pronounce the sandwich "muff-uh-LOT-uh. The common abbreviation is "muff"; e.g., "I'll take me a half a muff." Nothing is better on a Saturday afternoon then buying your self a muffuletta, a Barq’s root beer then going to sit on the Mississippi River’s edge to eat it!
"Everytime I close my eyes blowing that trumpet
of mine – I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans
– it has given me something to live for." –Louis
Armstrong