Vic's Kangaroo Cafe

Warehouse District, New Orleans · Bar · $$

Australians who came to New Orleans for the drinking culture and stayed to contribute to it opened this Tchoupitoulas bar in the early 1990s, and it has been serving meat pies to conventioneers and locals ever since. The pies are the tell: flaky, filled with beef and gravy, with mushy peas on the side if you want the full homesick treatment, and there is usually a blues band in the back room. Jagermeister shots are the traditional accompaniment, and the hours run late enough to allow several.