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The Best Mardi Gras Food Deals & Freebies To Celebrate Fat Tuesday Right Who needs free beads when you can get free food? By Amanda Mactas Published: Mar 01, 2025 8:00 AM EST Every Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm we have Bottomless Mimosas for $10 per person! Plus live jazz Anybody who lives in New Orleans (or has come for a visit at the top of the year) knows Mardi Gras isn’t just one day of parades and parties. Festivities kick off in January, with many parades happening during the weeks leading up to Fat Tuesday—which is all to say the city is buzzing for basically a month straight. Mardi Gras Pop-Up: Fat Tuesday 3/4/2025 12:00 pm. Open at NOON, Reservations until Heritage Restaurant & Caviar Bar. This Wicker Park icon offers a full schedule of festivities leading up to Fat Tuesday, including half-price Mardi Gras cocktails from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, $24 Mardi Gras Platter. Grilled King Crab, Lobster Tail, and Shrimp served with Drawn Butter $75. New Orleans Po’Boys. French Baguette served “Dressed” with Tomatoes, Lettuce, Pickles, and Creole Remoulade Sauce. Fried Shrimp $16. Fried Catfish $16. Fried Oysters $18. Peace Maker (Oyster & Shrimp) $22. Vegetarian Peace Maker. Mushrooms and It’s far from the only classic New Orleanian dish on the menu this Mardi Gras. King cake slices, drink specials, beads and brass band music on the speakers will greet guests on March 4. Mardi Gras in New Orleans, also known as Carnival, has been in full swing since Jan. 6 and will close with a grand, final celebration on March 4, better known as Fat Tuesday. Originating from Milwaukee's self-proclaimed Mardi Gras headquarters, Maxie's, will kick off its annual celebration Thursday night. The iconic restaurant, located at 68th Street and Fairview Avenue, has hosted Fat Criollo is in the famed Hotel Monteleone, a positively perfect Mardi Gras setting. The restaurant is open for regular hours on Fat Tuesday, with breakfast served from 6:30 to 10:30 a.m. and lunch served from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., a menu with the likes of shrimp and grits and a booze-friendly Criollo smash burger. The excellent restaurant is typically closed on Tuesdays, but will be open on Fat Tuesday (reservations only) from 4-9 pm, and Mardi Gras costumes and colors are encouraged (and they’ll have beads on-site). Mardi Gras at The Galley. Downtown’s “Legit Local” pub is going all out as always, with a full week of fun. Mardi Gras Events Around Houston on Fat Tuesday 2024. Mardi Gras Celebration & Parade at the Woodlands Children’s Museum – Families are welcome to come celebrate Fat Tuesday in the Woodlands with face painting, mask crafts and noise makers to use in one of two parades happening in the morning. Don’t forget to grab a slice of King Cake on Fat Tuesday began as a religious holiday to prepare Christians for fasting during Lent. Since then, it has become a period of festivities across the globe, with the most extravagant parades in New Orleans and Brazil. Chicago is joining the celebration and embracing the bead-throwing, mask-wearing, and traditional Mardi Gras cuisine. Here are 9 Location: Coast Bar & Grill | Downtown. On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, from 5:30pm to 8:30pm Coast Bar & Grill is bringing the vibrant energy of New Orleans to Hutson Alley in downtown Charleston with an unforgettable Big Fat Tuesday Crawfish Boil & Mardi Gras Party. Dig into a colorful Mardi Gras parade of king cake, cajun food, beignets, and other New Orleans-style treats at Minneapolis restaurants and bakeries. In Minneapolis, Mardi Gras might look a little different than it does on the streets of New Orleans, but you don't need to travel to Louisiana to enjoy those classic Fat Tuesday flavors. Fat Tuesday at Rockfish Seafood & Grill, with locations in Fort Worth and Arlington, is all about the discounts from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. March 4.Their Ragin’ Cajun three pounds of boiled crawfish, a dozen shrimp, snow crab, potatoes, corn and sausage — is normally $58, but for Mardi Gras, diners get $10 off. Order delivery or pickup from Mardigras Fat Tuesday "A Taste Of New Orleans" in Sherman Oaks! View Mardigras Fat Tuesday "A Taste Of New Orleans"'s February 2025 deals and menus. Support your local restaurants with Grubhub! From Saturday, February 28 through Fat Tuesday, indulge in the Addison restaurant’s seafood platter, crawfish corn fritters, king cake, and daiquiris. 5001 Belt Line Rd. Little Daisy Our Mardi Gras festival is back and better than ever! The Parish will be featuring your all time favorites, crawfish boil and alligator roast, Cajun sampler plates, King Cake, Hurricanes and the absolute best live music on Fat Tuesday, February 13! Gates open at 1 pm. Mardi Gras info: $15 entrance at door, first come, first served The cocktail bar is hosting a Fat Tuesday event with live jazz, NOLA drinks, and boudin balls courtesy of D. Branch Boudin. When: Tuesday, February 13 from 7 to 10 p.m. Huckleberry 440 East Saint Elmo Road, East Congress The Texas seafood truck is throwing a post-Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday party with host site Still Austin and the Austin Oyster Co.
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