Kimberly in New Orleans
The red LaBranche House at Royal and St. Peter streets, its iron lace balconies hung with ferns and Carnival bunting, with people strolling Royal Street below

February 24 to 28, 2027  ·  The Henry Howard Hotel

Laissez les bons temps rouler, Kimberly turns sixty!

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The band's about to start. We saved you a spot in the second line.

5days in New Orleans
18rooms in one 1867 mansion
60years of Kimberly
Kimberly, eyes wide, sipping through a straw from a copper rabbit cup

The guest of honor

The birthday girl

She knows what she likes, and it usually comes in a copper rabbit. This week, we follow her lead.

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The trip

Two neighborhoods, five days, one birthday

We'll wake up under the live oaks of the Lower Garden District and spend our days and nights (some later than others) between there and the French Quarter.

A huge live oak spreading over a white columned house on Prytania Street
A live oak on Prytania Street

One

The Garden DistrictWhere we wake up

Morning starts on Prytania Street in the Lower Garden District, in an 1867 mansion. Live oaks reach across the sidewalks and iron fences line the gardens.

Wander over to Magazine Street for boutiques and antiques (bring an empty bag), or stroll past the old walls of Lafayette Cemetery on the way to lunch.

Pictured: a Garden District mansion, the lobby at our hotel, and District Donuts on Magazine Street.

A white Greek Revival mansion with two tiers of columned galleries behind an iron fence, under live oaks The Henry Howard lobby, with a brass sousaphone on a white wall above a console table with a striped runner Two happy customers at District Donuts holding up a fresh box

Then we hop on the St. Charles streetcar, ride beneath the oaks, and step off at Canal Street, at the edge of the French Quarter.

Green St. Charles streetcar 907 rolling down the avenue under the oaks, past a white columned house
The St. Charles streetcar
Sylvain's white-painted storefront on Chartres Street, with gold script on the windows, a hanging sign and menus clipped in the window The yellow stucco arch of the French Market, with shoppers inside the covered market and potted trees on either side A row of Creole cottages painted mint, mustard and coral, with tall gray shutters and Carnival ornaments hanging from the eaves

Two

The French QuarterWhere the evenings run late

Ferns spill off the iron balconies, a brass band is usually playing on some corner, and the smell of powdered sugar drifts over from Café du Monde. The whole Quarter is only about thirteen blocks long, so wear comfy shoes and wander. Every corner has a story, and most of them have a bar.

Evenings mean dinner at Sylvain, a nightcap at Lafitte's, and live music on Frenchmen Street.

Pictured: Sylvain on Chartres Street, the French Market, and a row of Creole cottages.

How a day might go

Beignets to brass bands

  • Beignets under powdered sugar with café au lait
    9 amBeignets at Café du Monde, and powdered sugar on everything.
  • Kimberly, in a white hat, and a friend pointing up at the Court of Two Sisters sign on Royal Street
    11 amJazz brunch in the courtyard at the Court of Two Sisters.
  • Kimberly, arms spread wide, modeling a turquoise and gold silk caftan in a vintage boutique with a gilded mirror
    3 pmShopping at Century Girl Vintage on Magazine Street.
  • Friends clinking glasses of rosé at a sunny patio table
    6 pmWine and a band in the backyard at Bacchanal.
  • Brightly painted buildings on Frenchmen Street at night
    10 pmLive music on Frenchmen Street, club to club.
A brass band and dancers turning a corner beneath the oaks in a New Orleans street parade
A brass band in Mid-City

Three

Then, the big night

On Saturday we put on our finest for Kimberly's birthday dinner. You get a say in where we eat, and in the route our brass band takes when it parades us through the streets.

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The places she loves

Kimberly's favorites

Kimberly in a Cochon Butcher cap and sunglasses, laughing and hugging a friend on a gravel music patio The scrolled Shaya sign hanging over Magazine Street The upstairs bar at Bacchanal, with wooden stools, string lights and framed art on yellow walls
A white columned mansion on Coliseum Street

Where Y'at?

Tell us you're coming and when you touch down.

 The lit Atchafalaya restaurant sign hanging from a brown and yellow wooden building, with oaks behind

The Plan

What we're doing each day.

 The revolving Carousel Bar at the Hotel Monteleone, with its painted canopy and lights

Ideas & Votes

Pitch your big idea and vote on everybody else's.

 The Henry Howard's upstairs gallery, with white columns, iron lace railings, ferns and a striped wicker chair under the oaks

The Stoop

Questions, tips, gossip and shared Ubers.

 The red brick Pontalba Building and its iron galleries

Guide & Map

Kimberly's favorite places, on a map.

 Kimberly and friends raising glasses under the brass sousaphone in the Henry Howard lobby

Memories

Old photos, good stories and birthday wishes.
Dancers in bright suits lifting parasols at a birthday parade on a French Quarter street

Sixty years of Kimberly deserves a city that knows how to celebrate.
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