Reveillon is this special things all the really good New Orleans restaurants do. The dinners are 4-5 courses, and are usually eaten before heading to midnight mass. It's such a great tradition.
However, a restaurant crawl might work, too.
The menus from two of my favorite places --
Caf? Adelaide
300 Poydras St
(504) 595-3305
www.cafeadelaide.com
Four courses, $49.
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*Honey Butternut Squash and Foie Gras Soup
Cayenne pepitas and foie gras double cream
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*Cypress Smoked Goose and Oyster Gumbo
With Louisiana rabbit dirty rice and Plaisance fil?
~or~
Turtle Soup Au Sherry
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*Herb Roasted Grand Isle Shrimp
Saut? of Roma tomatoes, shallots and oyster mushrooms with truffled cauliflower cream
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*Bayou Blue Satsuma Salad
With Lola Rossa greens, toasted pecan bread, Atchafalaya Basin honey and Fleur de Lis Vinaigrette
~or~
Coup de Milieu
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*Crackling-Crusted Duck Breast
Duck egg fried rice, fire roasted plum duck sausage and Creole shrubb duck sauce
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*Old Fashioned Lacquered Bobwhite Quail
With andouille cornbread stuffing, three-cabbage choucroute, sunny side-up quail egg and Basil Hayden Bourbon
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*Blue Crab Stuffed Louisiana Flounder
With Des Allemands blue crab, oyster mushrooms, melted leeks and Chardonnay fumet
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New Orleans Rum Spiced Carrot Cake
Toasted pistachios and Hot Toddy ice cream
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*Banana Nut Bread Pudding
Bruleed bananas and warm Foster sauce
or
Jacques-Imo's
8324 Oak St.
861-0886
www.jacquesimoscafe.com
Price of entree includes entire five-course dinner.
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*Shrimp and Alligator Sausage Cheesecake
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*Fried Green Tomatoes with Shrimp Remoulade
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Eggplant Jacques-Imo's
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Chicken Livers with Toast
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*Duck and Andouille Gumbo
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Oyster Brie Soup
~or~
*Turtle Soup
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House Spinach Salad with Sesame-Plum Vinaigrette
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*Chicken Pontalba $36
~or~
*Shrimp or Crawfish Etouff?e $38
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*Blackened Redfish $38
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*Lamb Sirloin $40
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*Grilled Duck Breast $42
~or~
*Yellowfin Tuna $42
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Braised Short Ribs $42
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*Carpetbagger Steak $48
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*Cr?me Br?l?e
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*Coconut Bread Pudding
~or~
Cheesecake
