The Hard Rock Café, located at 418 N Peters Street in New Orleans, is teaming up with the New Orleans Friends of Breast Cancer Research Foundation to present an evening of great food, music, silent auctions and more.

Below is the official information the event.

BREAST FEST 2011 – Saturday, October 22nd

5PM: Breast Fest Patron Party in historic Algiers Point
6PM: Breast Fest Second Line Parade from Algiers Ferry Landing, through the French Quarter to Hard Rock Cafe
7PM: Breast Fest Gala at Hard Rock Café-Satchmo Room & Balcony

Following the Breast Fest Patrons Party, Breast Cancer Research Supporters will meet at the Algiers Point Ferry Landing to ride across the Mississippi River for a Second Line Parade. All are invited to participate with Breast Cancer Survivors, Supporters, and those who’d like to join in. The Lagniappe Brass Band will lead the parade through the French Quarter to the Breast Fest Gala at 7PM at Hard Rock Cafe.

Breast Fest 2011 includes live music, food from local chefs, specialty drinks and an incredible silent auction. There will also be Booby Traps set up throughout the venue for people to donate directly to BCRF, buy specially designed event shirts, buy other specialty event-themed items, and, if a survivor of breast cancer, receive a special gift to recognize and honor them.

There are many reasons visitors keep coming back to New Orleans but our fabulous food is always at the top of every list. It is impossible to think of New Orleans without talking about its food. Visitors and locals alike can dine at the finest restaurants in the world, many located in the historic French Quarter and most in walking distance from our great downtown hotels or just a streetcar or buggy ride away.

Many of our finest eateries feature our traditional and now world famous Creole dishes such as Chicken & Sausage Gumbo, Shrimp Creole and Crawfish Etouffe. Others offer the more spicy Cajun version of some of these same dishes but use some added Louisiana spices. But it doesn’t stop there as New Orleans has some of the finest steakhouses, freshest Louisiana seafood, in addition to those that feature French and Italian Cuisines using regional ingredients to give it that New Orleans flare. Several of our famous landmarks have oyster bars, some offer free Cajun dancing lessons, while others feature traditional jazz brunches. We even have a couple of micro-breweries in addition to several that feature martini bars. In other words, we have restaurants for all tastes and desires.

Festivals are big in New Orleans and the rest of Louisiana and they use local restaurants as the hook to lure their patrons. The annual French Quarter Festival is known for the World’s Largest Jazz Brunch and it’s hard to choose which one of the over 200 items you will want to enjoy at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’s Food Fair. At the Tomato Festival, Crawfish Festival, Shrimp Festival, Strawberry Festival…and the list of hundreds goes on an on…great food is the key.

Plain and simple, or extra spicy and hot, our great restaurants are the gems of New Orleans!