Desire Oyster Bar
The Desore Oyster Bar started as the casual, all-day restaurant of the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Canal Street. In the last couple of years, it has gone upscale, filling a gap created when the formal Sonesta dining venue was converted into R'Evolution. Now Desire is not merely a casual seafood house, bur a reasonable decent Creole bistro. The Reveillon dinner they begin this year shows what they're up to.
Four courses, $46
❉Turtle soup au sherry~or~
Creole gumbo
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Wedge salad
Buttermilk blue cheese dressing, tomatoes, bacon & eggs
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❉Baby spinach salad
Candied pecans, dried cranberries, blue cheese, red grapes & praline vinaigrette
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❉Blackened redfish
Shrimp courtbouillon & rice
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Braised pork shank
Smothered cabbage & mashed sweet potatoes
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❉Spiced pumpkin cheesecake
Creole cream cheese & graham cracker crust
French Quarter: 300 Bourbon. 504-586-0300.
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 snowflake symbol ✽ are my recommendations.
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