Uptown
Everything upriver of the Garden District — the residential city where the streetcar runs and the trees do most of the work.
Uptown begins where the Garden District ends and runs to the river bend at Carrollton — five miles of residential streets, university campuses, and the kind of neighborhood commerce that survives because the locals actually use it. Tulane and Loyola sit on St. Charles across from Audubon Park; the streetcar runs the spine of the whole thing.
Magazine Street is the commercial run, six miles from the Garden District through Uptown to the river bend, with restaurants and shops at a density and quality that makes a full afternoon walk worthwhile. Freret Street, a few blocks inland, is the more recent restaurant corridor — Dat Dog, Cure, High Hat Cafe.
The neighborhood does not announce itself. There is no Uptown landmark you go to. The point is the streetcar ride, a meal at Pascal's Manale or Casamento's, a walk through the park, a coffee at the river bend. Treat it as a half-day, not a stop.