[title type="h2"]Unusually Large Coolinary Menu At Cafe Adelaide[/title]
The summer menu at Cafe Adelaide is almost as extensive as the main menu. Operated by the Commander's Palace branch of the Brennan family, Cafe Adelaide is the all-day restaurant of the Loew's Hotel on Poydras at S. Peters. It is well above the standard for hotel restaurants, with a decidedly new-Creole flavor, great ingredients, and more than a little imagination. Six appetizers, five entrees and a handful of desserts form the Coolinary menu, whose three courses come to your table for $32-$38--a bit lower than most Coolinary menus. Also here is an equally extensive Coolinary lunch of two courses for between $16 and $20. It's only available on weekdays; a brunch reigns over the weekends.
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Shrimp and grits from the Coolinary menu at Cafe Adelaide.[/caption]
Wild White Shrimp and Okra Gumbo
Gulf shrimp and Creole trinity slow simmered with okra and dark roux
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Commander’s Turtle Soup
Rich veal stock and spiked with sherry
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Soup du Jour
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Shrimp & Tasso Corndogs
Shrimp dipped in tasso batter, 5-pepper jelly, pickled okra & Crystal hot sauce butter
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Downtown Chopped Salad
Romaine, olives, tomatoes, crispy chickpeas, pressed eggs & Parmesan with white anchovy-buttermilk dressing
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Alabama Peach Gimlet Salad
Alabama peaches, dried cherries, cucumber ribbons, candied almonds and arugula dressed with a basil-lime Gimlet
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Cast Iron Seared Gulf Fish
Local root vegetable, summer corn and purple hull bean succotash with lemongrass infused crab broth, white wine and tarragon $32.
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New Orleans East Style BBQ Shrimp & Grits
Seared Louisiana wild white shrimp over collard green kimchi, pork belly, chilies and creamy stone ground grits with spicy Asian style barbecue glaze $32.
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Duck, Duck, Duck
Whiskey & sugarcane cured duck ham over a warm salad of duck confit, summer vegetables, dried cherries, spiced pecans and bitter greens with blackberry–duck fat vinaigrette $34.
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“Pork & Beans”
Brined & smoked double cut pork chop with Louisiana fig barbeque, truffled white bean salad and grilled Alabama peaches $36.
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White Chocolate Biscuit Pudding
Abita root beer syrup & toasted New Roads pecans
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Vanilla Bean Crème Brûlée
With fresh seasonal berries
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Creole Cream Cheese Cheesecake
Spiced Steen’s sugarcane syrup and blackberries
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German Chocolate Cajun Brownie
Coconut ganache, chocolate crumble, coconut sorbet & pecans
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Quintin’s Sorbet Or Ice Cream
Check with your server for tonight’s selections
Cafe Adelaide
CBD: 300 Poydras St. 504-595-3305. www.cafeadelaide.com.
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