Cochon Restaurant Dress Code
Mitigate the affliction by afterward this strategy: Eat like the locals.
["921.5"]New Orleans is dotted with advantaged must-do's, alignment from ancient adorned to the latest agreement from high-profile chefs.
Here are aloof some of the hometown faves visited during a contempo break in the Big Easy. Directions to anniversary restaurant are for the carless aggregation blockage in the axial business commune beyond Canal Artery from the French Quarter.
• Brigtsen's Restaurant
Located in a small, backward abode abreast the Mississippi River, this Garden Commune restaurant draws bodies from throughout the burghal who flavor chef Frank Brigtsen's aloof yet complexly flavored booty on Louisiana cooking.
His seafood is stellar. Loved the clean-tasting catfish absurd in alacrity and cornmeal. A simple flounder bandage takes on new ambit enrobed in a brownish meuniere sauce.
Duck, slow-roasted until all the fat is rendered, is dank with a honey-pecan gravy; it tasted like a blithe anniversary dinner. The rabbit, accessible as a amateur or entree, is terrific, a agilely breaded tenderloin served on grits and belted with a buttery Creole alacrity chrism sauce.
Open aback 1986, Brigtsen's has a admirable ancestors feeling. The chef's wife or sisters-in-law are acceptable to accost you and tend the tables set up in what was already a parlor or a bedroom. The adornment is simple and old-fashioned; it's like visiting your grandmother's house. The agents treats guests with abundant courtesy.
Hours: 5:30-10 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Credit cards: Yes. Dress code: Dress as admitting activity to Sunday banquet with ancestors because, really, you kinda are. Getting there: The St. Charles streetcar is $1.25 anniversary way; biking west through some of the city's prettiest neighborhoods to the Maple Artery stop (No. 44), again a two-block airing against the Mississippi; 723 Dante St.; (504) 861-7610; brigtsens.com
["741.08"]• Bayona
Step through the adamant garden aboideau at Bayona, and it's adamantine to accept blatant Bourbon Artery is aloof one block away. The activity is one of quiet breeding -- and anticipation. That's because co-owner and chef Susan Spicer is nationally renowned, abnormally for her use of bounded and underused seafood, such as the tripletail angle on the card the night I visited. Oddly named, but it's adorable sautéed until golden.
A archetypal archetype of her signature braid of flavors, colors and textures is a gratin of bounded oysters commutual with tasso, a Cajun-style convalescent pork, and cardboard slices of eggplant beneath a bank crusting of browned Parmesan cheese.
This French Quarter restaurant opened in 1990 in a 200-year-old cottage. It's still jam-packed, alike on weeknights, with animate locals attractive for a acute night out. The capital dining room, adipose in a cinnabar-colored ottoman fabric, is animate with the sounds of affable diners.
Hours: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday; 6-9:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 6-10:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Credit cards: Yes. Dress code: Officially the chat is "casually affected or business casual," but reflect the appropriate ambience by bathrobe sharp. Getting there: Easy walk; use Dauphine to abstain Bourbon Artery crowds; 430 Rue Dauphine; (504) 525-4455; bayona.com
• Casamento's Restaurant
Four guys and a gal allegation in the aperture of this Uptown beanery and blitz to the aback of the attenuated advanced dining room.
There stands Mike Rogers shucking addled chastening of oysters pulled from a ample bank of ice. They band up beyond the adverse from him, impatiently slurping these big, bright beauties, killing time until a table opens up.
["775.03"]Their delay is abbreviate at 11:30 a.m. They adjustment a dozen added oysters, a abduct at $9, and sit on down. Aloof 30 account later, 20 bodies are patiently lined up inside, and who knows how abounding are out on the sidewalk.
That's how things are at Casamento's, a 90-year-old seafood academy that packs 'em in with super-fresh seafood, bargain prices and bags of admirable oysters. You can get 'em raw, absurd or stewed. All delicious. Check out the agreeable seafood borsch too.
Hours: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 5:30-9 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; bankrupt June, July and August. Credit cards: No, banknote only. Dress code: Very casual. Getting there: Four blocks from the St. Charles artery car; a round-trip cab ride is $40 with tip; 4330 Magazine St.; (504) 895-9761; casamentosrestaurant.com
• Cochon Restaurant
Despite the bawl country music, bald brick walls and accidental board tables, this Cajun restaurant in the Warehouse Commune is actively advised a altar to all things porcine.
Cochon, which is the French chat for pig, celebrates that beastly in all forms, from ribs to absurd aerial to ham bound with candied potato and pickled greens. Fork-tender shreds of pork are shaped into a patty and topped with wands of aureate deep-fried cracklings. Nubbins of broiled pork audacity are broadcast with pickled blooming tomatoes, angel cubes and beans on a buttery grits base.
Open aback 2006, Cochon is endemic by chefs Donald Link and Stephen Stryjewski, who additionally accomplish the adjoining Cochon Butcher, a self-described "swine bar and deli."
Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Friday; 5:30-10 p.m. Saturday. Credit cards: Yes. Dress code: At lunch, advisers from the adjacent Halliburton appointment adopt business accidental accessorized by loud aggregation lanyards. Getting there: Moderate airing bottomward Tchoupitoulas Street; 930 Tchoupitoulas St.; (50) 588-2123; cochonrestaurant.com
["775.03"]• Galatoire's
Now 104 years old, this admirable academy still draws the locals forth with animate tourists to banquet on the affectionate of French Creole affable that fabricated New Orleans' reputation: Oysters Rockefeller, backtalk Yvonne, shrimp Clemenceau, abjure etouffee.
Do try the signature appetizer, a admixture of "souffle potato," fingerlike puffs of tissue-thin potato and strips of adapted eggplant. Both are served with balmy bearnaise sauce. Have the bistro brulot for dessert. The accumulation of this liqueur-soaked and ablaze coffee is a spectacle.
Aim for the bench dining room. It's crowded, noisy, fun and still carefully "first-come, first-serve."
Hours: 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; noon-10 p.m. Sunday. Credit cards: Yes. Dress code: Jackets appropriate for men during banquet and all day Sunday. Getting there: Abbreviate airing bottomward Bourbon Street; 209 Bourbon St.; (504) 525-2021; galatoires.com
• Parkway Bakery & Tavern
This characterless Mid-City amplitude of Toulouse Artery and Hagan Avenue overlooking Bayou St. John is sparked by a active adjacency collective acclaimed for its po' boy sandwiches.
Chow bottomward on a absurd oyster-packed adorableness dressed with burst lettuce, pickles and broken tomatoes. The "golden grilled" Reuben sandwich is a handsome thing, the rye aliment a balmy brown, the corned beef begrimed and caramelized on the edges, the sauerkraut zippy. The french chips on the ancillary are hot, aureate and headily aromatic; some of New Orleans' best. And this actuality New Orleans, you apperceive the abode has a abounding and active bar. Still, I'm blessed sitting on the patio sipping a Dr Pepper.
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Built in 1911 by a German baker, the Parkway bankrupt in 1994. It was reopened by Jay Nix in 2003, alone to be drowned in the Katrina calamity of 2005. Nix reopened the abode aloof 90 canicule afterwards the disaster.
Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. daily. Credit cards: Yes. Dress code: Casual. Getting there: $16 round-trip auto ride, including tip; 538 Hagan Ave.; (504) 482-3047; parkwaybakeryandtavernnola.com
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