The Best Reveillon @ Pelican Club

 

Pelican Club

No other restaurant makes more of the Reveillon than Chef Richard Hughes' Pelican Club. He begins the celebration weeks before other restaurants, and keeps it running for days afterward. While other Reveillon menus include only one or two selections in each course, the Pelican Club cooks up four or five. That makes it far and away the most extensive Reveillon selection. Even the pricing is exceptional: $56 for the four-course feast. (A few items incur a small supplement to the price.) As if that weren't already enough to lead the field, the Pelican Club's Reveillon menu evolves through the season, adding and subtracting dishes that Richard thinks will fit with the rest of the menu well. [caption id="attachment_52419" align="alignnone" width="480"] Duck three ways.[/caption] Finally, one more unique feature: the Pelican will open with a Reveillon lunch service on December 9, 16, and 23. Not many of those around. All these are Fridays, and please note: the PelClub will be dark on December 30. In other words, if you're going to pick one Reveillon dinner, the Pelican Club is the one. It really goes the extra mile, always--one of the reason it gets all five of my rating fleurs de lis. Thanks for being so reliable, Chef Richard!

Four courses, $56

Creamy Oyster Soup
Mirliton & tasso
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❉Turtle soup
Aged sherry
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Mississippi Quail
Cheese grits, foie gras, and shiitake mushrooms
~or~
❉Pelican Club baked oysters
Apple-smoked bacon
~or~
Tuna Poké
House-made steamed pork buns with pickles
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Filet Mignon
Marchand de vin sauce
~or~
Trio of Duckling
Grilled breast, confit and barbecue duck
~or~
Pannéed Fish
Crab stuffed mirliton and jalapeno hollandaise
~or~
Lobster
Sea scallops & jumbo shrimp
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White and Dark Chocolate Bread Pudding




Lemon Ice Box Pie
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White & dark chocolate bread pudding
~or~
Coconut cream pie
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❉Bourbon pecan pie
~or~
❉Chocolate decadence cake
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Lagniappe: Bourbon spiked eggnog
~or~
Strawberry Chantilly Cake
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Chocolate Hazelnut Pot de Crème
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Lagniappe!
Egg Nog With Bourbon



French Quarter: 615 Bienville. 504-523-1504.
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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