A locavore, you probably know, is someone who eats mostly the food produced near to where he lives. If you're a lover of seafood, yams, tomatoes, eggplants, and baby vegetables, it's easy to have a locavore diet in New Orleans. Lately, the entire category of cocktails has joined local beer and wine in the locavore area. To prove all this, Dickie Brennan's newest restaurant Tableaux plans to hold a locavore dinner Thursday, June 26. Locally produced foods and beverages are in charge, front to back. Even the salt is from within 200 miles of home. Here's the menu: Watermelon and Oryza Vodka Oyster Shooters Tabasco Family Reserve, cucumber, mint, and basil gremolata Cocktail: Thibodeaux Thump (Oryza Vodka) Black-eyed Pea Battered Shrimp Farm green salad, pickled onions and candied Chisesi ham Cocktail: Valerie and Vitalis (Oryza Gin) Duck Confit Atop Crawfish Etoufee Popcorn rice cake, crab-boil-poached yard egg, scallions Cocktail: Hop-Along (Full Moon Rougaroux Amber Rum & LA31 Pale Ale) Sweet Potato Ice Cream Housemade cane syrup soda float, marshmallow fluff, candied pecans Cocktail: 101 Days (Sweet Potato-Infused Full Moon Rougaroux Praline Rum) The price is $55, plus tax and tip--so, around $70. There's a reception at 6:30 and dinner at seven. Reservations are dessential at the rer
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French Quarter: 616 St. Peter St. 504-934-3463. www.tableaufrenchquarter.com.
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