Want to get into the Mardi Gras spirit? Read on.
1. Celebrations on Market Mardi Gras Party
3–11 p.m. | Live music by Universal Funk Order, Creole, and House Blends by DJ Zip. Enjoy a Cajun buffet featuring a crayfish boil, gumbo and étouffée. | $15, 340 S. Market St., Wilmington, 654-2014, celebrationsonmarket.com
2. Family Mardi Gras at The Greene Turtle
11 a.m.–midnight | Enjoy food, drinks and happy hour specials. Kids eat for free and can make Mardi Gras masks to take home. | Multiple locations, thegreeneturtle.com
3. Fat Tuesday at North Quarter Creole
11:30 a.m.–11:30 p.m. | Head to North Quarter Creole for live music from the Fifty Fives. | 837 N. Union St., Wilmington, 691-7890, northquartercreole.com
The menu will include:
- Crawfish Boil: Crawfish (fresh from New Orleans), andouille sausage, shrimp, corn on the cob and potatoes cooked in spices and butter
- New Orleans Barbecue Shrimp: Steamed shrimp in Worcestershire beer-butter sauce served with grilled bread
- Voodoo shrimp and grits with cornbread
- Blackened catfish over dirty rice with corn relish
- Seafood Gumbo: Crawfish tails, shrimp, crab and catfish over rice served with cornbread
- Jambalaya: Andouille sausage, blackened chicken and shrimp in jambalaya sauce and rice
- Nola Sampler: Boudin pork sausage links, andouille sausage and alligator boudin sausage served with chipotle and Creole mustard voodoo BBQ sauces and grilled bread
- Shrimp Po Boy: Breaded fried shrimp, chipotle slaw and dill pickles with red beans and rice
- Beignets with salted caramel sauce
- Drink specials (Hurricanes, Mint Juleps, Sazeracs, Bayou Bombs and Frozen Irish Jameson Coffee)
4. Fat Tuesday Paint and Sip at Ernest & Scott
6–8 p.m. | Paint a Mardi Gras mask on a 16 x 20 canvas. No experience is required. One happy hour drink special is included. Register on Kennett Design’s website. | $39, Ernest & Scott Taproom, 920 N. Market St., Wilmington, 384-8113, www.ernestandscott.com
