Saints are marching in, beads are tumbling down, and all bejeezus is breaking loose!
New Jersey’s ONLY WEEK-LONG Mardi Gras celebration is spilling over into ODDFELLOWS REST bistro in Hoboken.
Oddfellows Rest was founded by New Orleans natives. They know Mardi Gras!
The music isn’t the half of it, cherie!!
Beads, trinkets, and doubloons will be tossed to partyers from huge Mardi Gras floats.
Pots of Jambalaya will be cooking in the kitchen, Hurricanes (what, you’ve never had a Hurricane??) will be available at the bar.
If you’ve never celebrated Mardi Gras, you don’t know what you’re missing.
Dixie folks knew what they were doing when they put their greatest holiday smack in the middle of the dreary months between Christmas and Memorial Day.
Mardi Gras - literally “Fat Tuesday” - has been the traditional pre-Lent “last fling” in New Orleans and elsewhere since the 18th century. Balls, parades, and parties are all anyone thinks about during the “carnival season,” which lasts from Jan.12 to Fat Tuesday.
At Oddfellows Rest (named after a famous New Orleans cemetery) you’ll see authentic versions of all the New Orleans traditions: the masks, the floats, the Mardi Gras colors of purple, green and gold (symbolizing justice, faith and power). And yes, they elect a Mardi Gras king and queen. Come in costume!!!
