The Royal Cafe has a great location and setting - on a busy corner on Royal Street, with three floors of dining (including two beautiful terraces on the two highest floors.) After waiting for fifteen minutes for a table for lunch (not unusual anywhere in the Quarter), we sat next to the fireplace across from the very nice (but small) bar on the first floor. The lunch menu has sandwiches of all kinds, from French Dips to the very good Chicken Tchoupitoulas , named after a local street, with cajun fried chicken topped with spicy aioli. They also have very good soups (including gumbo and oyster/artichoke soup) and meal-size salads. Prices were about average for Quarter restaurants - around $7-$8 for a sandwich. Service was a little bit slow, but not annoyingly so. It's a great place to sit down for lunch, and chances are you'll be entertained by a street performer outside on Royal St. as you eat. While not an out-of-the-way choice by any means (the Cafe is actually very popular with tourists), the interior gives you the sense that you've stumbled on something a little more local and secluded than many other options in the Quarter.