Be careful with New Orleans coffee, it'll stand up and walk away from you if you don't watch it... It's STRONG!
Best thing you can do is run that NO blend through the espresso machine. Nothing like unfiltered NO blend to get you going in the morning....Now you're drinking coffee...
We've got 3 Community pots in our kitchen here at work - Decaf, Pure, and Chicory blend. The chicory is the stuff we commonly refer to as the "jet fuel".
I grew up in NO, came to LSU, and never left BR. Now I work 2 days a week in NO. I love the smell of jet fuel in the morning.
I think you covered it all. NO isn't necessarily known as a family friendly city. Its more of a place where you go to practice debauchery.
Same with the drinks--I saw something on this board earlier (might have been this thread) about 300-pound men getting knocked out by a Hurricane. I weigh about 140 and I could always handle those. Must be conditioning. Of course, I don't drink anymore, but I remember (somewhat) when I did