Albertine's Tea Room (Columns Hotel)
The Columns Hotel has just the Victorian environment that seems to go with the holidays. As it stacks a growing series of Reveillon dinners, the quality of the menus and food have grown better each year. Meanwhile, the prices has been steady enough years that it's become one of the best values in the Reveillon season.
Four courses, $45.
✷Oyster stew~or~
✷Duck gumbo with rice
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✷Turtle soup au sherry
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Columns salad (organic mixed greens, hearts of palm, fresh cut pepper, shredded carrots, honey balsamic vinaigrette)
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✷Beets, frisée & blue cheese with cane vinaigrette
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✷Veal osso buco with roasted garlic mashed potato
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✷Roasted duck breast with pommes anna
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Pan-seared diver scallops
Roasted corn, asparagus & Louisiana shrimp relish with roasted tomato beurre blanc
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Charred Atlantic salmon
Sweet soy with shrimp mirliton dressing
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Chocolate ganache tart topped with a raspberry reduction
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✷Ginger crème brûlée
Uptown: 3811 St Charles Ave. 504-899-9308.
FULL REVIEW
All the Reveillon menus can be perused here. We'll feature one every day throughout the Reveillon season, which runs in most of the Reveillon restaurants until December 31.The snowflake ratings are for the Reveillon menu, not the restaurant in general. Dishes marked with the symbol » are my recommendations.
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