For the second year in a row, the French Market celebrated Bastille Day with a tradition borrowed from Paris: a waiters’ race in which waiters and waitresses from New Orleans restaurants competed by speed walking while holding a tray of drinks on a course from Washington Artillery Park on Decatur Street to the French Market arch at Ursulines Avenue. Travis Hoffman of Louisiana Pizza Kitchen captured first place, followed by Brian Ricard of Antoine’s and Mary Hulse from Muriel’s.

All photos by Kim Welsh.

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