Freret St. berween Napoleon & Valmont

Category: FYI

Saturday’s weather forecast looks good!

Weekend Weather with Dave Nussbaum of WWL-TV A cold front will move through by Saturday Morning and this will bring us some slightly cooler and less humid weather for this weekend. A few showers will be possible for the Crescent City Classic Saturday Morning, but it will become sunny and windy by the afternoon with a high around 70.

2015 Fest this Saturday!

Check out our Facebook page for photos and posts about everything happening at the Festival. –> The Advocate has an article about the Festival and the restaurants on Freret Street. “On Freret Street, a bounty of food and drink”

Call for Vendors for 2015 Festival

If you would like to be considered to be a vendor at the Festival, you must have a vendor account set up on the Freret Market website: http://freretmarket.org/VendorTermsAndConditions The Festival is now accepting booth requests from people who would like to be a vendor. To help increase sales for the participating vendors, we have limited the number of both food and non-food vendors accepted to the Festival. Hot food vendors will need to submit your full menu in your booth request. There will be a maximum of 2 food vendors for each duplicate item sold, spaced out at different ends of the Festival. The fee for prepared/hot food vendors is $250. There will be fewer hot food choices at the Festival,…

Getting to and Parking at the Fest

Freret Street will be blocked off From Napoleon Avenue to Jefferson Avenue. If you are lucky enough to live close enough to walk to the Freret Street Festival, good for you! If you drive, there are two, free parking lots nearby: 1) On Napoleon Avenue at S Robertson Street & 2) On the corner of Magnolia and Cadiz Streets. Please be courteous to our neighbors when you park and do not block driveways. If you ride your bike, there is a complimentary bike valet by Bike Easy, at the corner of Freret and Jena and also at Freret and Valmont. Via public transit, both the Freret #15 bus and Napoleon #24 bus will drop you off right here. Take the…