The biggest ripoff ever!!! How can you have a crawfish festival and not have any crawfish!!! Arrived at 12:30 and the ONLY vendor selling crawfish ( aside from the Asian vendor selling pad thai with crawfish which I don't believe is "straight from the bayou") wasn't ready to serve!! WTH. I thought something was funny when we arrived and people were already leaving. But since I had already purchased my tickets on line ($72 for six tickets) I decided to give it a try. Once inside, there were hardly any vendors. Not to mention, the ones that were there didn't have much to do with Louisiana or the bayou.
There was one vendor there that was ready for food service but they were way OVERPRICED. $5 for a lemonade that tasted like it was made with sewer water, not sweet, and barely tasted like lemonade. Their food was sub par.
The music left something to be desired. The band was okay. Nothing like you get in NOLA.
No Bourbon street bartenders. No hurricanes. No beignets.
If there is a 2nd annual crawfish festival, you couldn't pay me to go. It was that bad!!!!