The New Orleans Menu

Contents
Restaurants Open Christmas Eve and/Or Christmas Day
Reveillon Restaurants And Menus
Christmas Recipes

Christmas Dining

Dining out on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day is such a challenge that my best advice to you would be to avoid doing so if you possibly can. Most restaurants are closed both days. Those that do open are overwhelmed with customers and short of staff. Think about it: if you were one of the best chefs, waiters, and managers, would you work on Christmas?

Many restaurants are open, however, for various reasons. The most reliable among them are the hotel restaurants, which must be open. A very small percentage of the independent restaurants are open.

In almost every case, the restaurants will depart from their standard menus on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Here's a list of all the restaurants I've found so far that will be open for those days. I'll update the list as I get more information; check back if you're still looking. Many restaurants book up the 1-3 p.m. seatings. So be ready to take another time.

Note To Restaurants: If you will be open on Christmas Eve or Christmas but are not included here, send specifics to me at: news@nomenu.com.

CE=Open Christmas Eve
CD=Open Christmas Day.

21 W. Covington: 100 Tyler Square. 985-892-3982. CE. Special menu. Contemporary Creole

7 On Fulton. 700 Fulton (in the Riverfront Hotel). 681-1034. Special menu. CE, CD.

Andrea's. 3100 19th Street, Metairie, 834-8583. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Special menu. CE, CD.

Antoine's. 713 St. Louis. 581-4422. CE.

Begue's Restaurant. Royal Sonesta Hotel, 300 Bourbon. 553-2278. CE, CD.

Besh Steakhouse. Harrah's New Orleans Casino, 8 Canal Street, 533-6111. CE, CD.

Bourbon House. 144 Bourbon, 522-0111. CE until 7 p.m.

Brennan's. 417 Royal, 525-9711. CE, Breakfast and Lunch only.

Broussard's. 819 Conti. 504-581-3866. CE.

Cafe Adelaide. In the Loews Hotel, 300 Poydras Street, 595-3305. CE.

Cafe Giovanni. 117 Decatur. 529-2154. CE.

Chateau Du Lac. 3901 Williams Blvd. 467-0054. CE.

Chateau Sonesta Hotel Dining Room. Dauphine at Iberville. 586-0800. Buffet. CD.

Commander's Palace. 1403 Washington Ave.
899-8221. CE.

Crystal Room. Le Pavillon Hotel, 901 Poydras. 581-3111. CE, CD.

Cuvee. 322 Magazine. 587-9001. CE dinner only.

Dakota. Covington: 629 N. US 190 . 985-892-3712. CE, lunch and dinner.

Drago's. Hilton Hotel Riverside location only: 2 Poydras. 584-3911. CE. Regular menu.

Flaming Torch. 737 Octavia. 504-895-0900. Special menu. CE, NYE.

Hotel Inter-Continental. 444 St. Charles Ave, 525-5566. 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Buffet. CE, CD.

La Cote Brasserie. 700 Tchoupitoulas. 613-2350. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. CE, CD.

Le Parvenu. Kenner: 509 Williams Blvd. 504-471-0534. CE, special menu.

Maple Street Cafe. 7623 Maple, 314-9003.
Maple Cafe. 541 Oaklawn, 833-8877.
Both of the above have the same special menu, a three-course prix-fixe with several selections in each for $29. CE, CD.

Melange. In the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 921 Canal. 524-1331. CE, CD.

Monteleone Hotel Le Cafe. 214 Royal, French Quarter. 523-3341. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Buffet. CE, CD.

Morton's Steakhouse. 365 Canal (Canal Place Mall). 566-0221. CE, dinner only, regular menu.

Radisson Hotel. 2150 Veterans Blvd., Kenner (at Williams). 467-3111. Buffet. CE, CD.

Ralph's on the Park. 900 City Park Ave. 488-1000. CE.

Rib Room. Omni Royal Orleans Hotel, 621 St. Louis. 529-7045. Special menu. CE, CD.

Riche. Harrah's Casino Hotel, Poydras at Fulton. 533-6117. CE, CD (special menus).

St. Charles Tavern. 1433 St. Charles Ave. 523-9823. A special buffet for $10.95. CE, CD.

Tujague’s. 823 Decatur. 525-8676. 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Traditional table d'hote menu. CE, CD.

Windsor Court Grill Room. 300 Gravier, 522-1994. Noon-6 p.m. CE, CD.

Wolfe's in the Warehouse District. 859 Convention Center Blvd.. 613-2882. CE, CD. Special menu dinner all day both days.

Zoe. In the W Hotel, 333 Poydras Street. 207-5018. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Buffet. CE, CD.

Reveillon Dinners

Here's a list of the restaurants offering Reveillon dinners this year, along with the menus for those dinners. The Reveillon is an old New Orleans holiday tradition, and in this revived version of it (which itself has been going on the better part of twenty years), the restaurants and chefs put together feasts of holiday food at (mostly) attractive prices.

I find these dinners delightful, and strongly recommend that you try one or two of them, at least. (I'm going to at least six.)

Please contact restaurants for current menu offerings and reservations, menu items are subject to change. Prices do not include tax and gratuity.
* Ratings: I've rated all the Reveillon dinners from zero to three "snowflakes" based on past years' Reveillons, the year-round performance of the restaurant, the menu this year, and value. These snowflake ratings are apart from our usual star ratings, and apply only to the Reveillon, not the restaurant as a whole. I've also starred dishes that I'd recommend.

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7 on Fulton
701 Convention Center Blvd.
525-7555
www.7onfulton.com
Four Courses, $50
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*Warm Crab and Gnocchi
With lemon beurre blanc glacage
~or~
Celery Root Risotto
With truffle and roasted pine nuts
~or~
Watercress and Endive Salad
With pears, blue cheese, candied pecans, shallot dressing
~or~
*Steak Tartare
With parsnip flan and blood oranges, gaufrette potatoes
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*Seared Scallops
With whipped potatoes and mushroom jus
~or~
*Crispy Gulf Fish
With braised short rib and carrot purée, spiced red wine sauce
~or~
*Roasted Salmon
With French lentils and ham hocks
~or~
*Whole Fried Puppy Drum
With brown butter, lemon, capers, almonds, melting spinach
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*Lamb Roulade
With spinach purée and roasted potato rounds, jus naturelle
~or~
*Filet Mignon
With oysters, bacon lardons, caramelized onions, bordelaise
~or~
*Sautéed Duck Breast a l'Orange
With endive and onion soubise, foie gras foam
~or~
*Pork, Pork and Pork
Bacon wrapped tenderloin and belly, braised celery
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*Apple Tart
With vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce
~or~
Chocolate Crème Brûlée
~or~
Nine-Minute Cookie Plate with Iced Milk
~or~
*Lemon Meringue Crisp

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Café Adelaide
300 Poydras St
(504) 595-3305
www.cafeadelaide.com
Four courses, $49.
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*Honey Butternut Squash and Foie Gras Soup
Cayenne pepitas and foie gras double cream
~or~
*Cypress Smoked Goose and Oyster Gumbo
With Louisiana rabbit dirty rice and Plaisance filè
~or~
Turtle Soup Au Sherry
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*Herb Roasted Grand Isle Shrimp
Sauté of Roma tomatoes, shallots and oyster mushrooms with truffled cauliflower cream
~or~
*Bayou Blue Satsuma Salad
With Lola Rossa greens, toasted pecan bread, Atchafalaya Basin honey and Fleur de Lis Vinaigrette
~or~
Coup de Milieu
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*Crackling-Crusted Duck Breast
Duck egg fried rice, fire roasted plum duck sausage and Creole shrubb duck sauce
~or~
*Old Fashioned Lacquered Bobwhite Quail
With andouille cornbread stuffing, three-cabbage choucroute, sunny side-up quail egg and Basil Hayden Bourbon
~or~
*Blue Crab Stuffed Louisiana Flounder
With Des Allemands blue crab, oyster mushrooms, melted leeks and Chardonnay fumet
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New Orleans Rum Spiced Carrot Cake
Toasted pistachios and Hot Toddy ice cream
~or~
*Banana Nut Bread Pudding
Bruleed bananas and warm Foster sauce

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Albertine's Tea Room
At the Columns Hotel
3811 St. Charles Ave.
899-9308
www.thecolumns.com
Four courses, $34
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Louisiana Turtle Soup au Sherry
~or~
New Orleans Seafood Gumbo
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Fried Green Tomatoes
Drizzled with reduced balsamic vinegar and crumbled feta
~or~
*Arugula Salad
With granny smith apples, cranberries, candied pecans and calvados dressing
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*Pork Osso Buco
Braised and slow cooked in creole-seasoned tomato sauce with stone ground grits
~or~
Petit Filet
Marinated and grilled to your taste with bearnaise and oven-roasted fingerling potatoes
~or~
Smoked Duck Legs
Farm raised and house smoked with a reduction of port wine on a bed of sweet gnocchi
~or~
*Pecan-crusted Atlantic Salmon
With roasted pecans and brown sugar with black-eyed peas and cane syrup glaze
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*Apple Raisin Turnovers with Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
~or~
Banana Bread Pudding with Rum Sauce
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Brandied Eggnog with dessert

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Arnaud's
813 Bienville St.
523-5433
www.arnauds.com
Four courses, $46.
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Shrimp Ravigote
~or~
*Prosciutto-Wrapped Scallop
With saffron cream sauce
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Creole Onion Soup en Croute
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*Deconstructed Beef Wellington
Served with roasted asparagus potato-crusted trout topped with crawfish tails sautéed in Chardonnay cream, served atop baby spinach
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*Trio of Profiteroles
Creamy vanilla, milk chocolate, and praline

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Bombay Club
830 Conti St.
800-699-7711
www.thebombayclub.com
Price of entree includes four courses.
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*Veal and Stilton Pansoti
With Wild Mushroom Cream and Toasted Walnuts
~or~
Soup du Jour
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*Baby Spinach and Fried Onion Salad
With smoked bacon vinaigrette
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*Oyster and Leek Stuffed Chicken $44
With sherry and tasso cream with mashed potato
~or~
Fresh Fish du Jour $46
~or~
*Fresh Herb-roasted Pork Loin $46
With mashed sweet potato, apple-red onion compote and brandy-laced demi
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English Toffee Bread Pudding
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Bombay Club's Eggnog Noël

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Bourbon House
144 Bourbon St.
522-0111
www.bourbonhouse.com
Four courses, $40.
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*Seared Gulf Shrimp
With winter vegetable hash and a meyer lemon gastrique
~or~
*Crab Imperial
Jumbo lump crab and housemade aioli baked golden brown
~or~
*Roasted Fennel and Chestnut Salad
With arugula, radicchio and satsuma vinaigrette
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*Bourbon-Glazed Quail
With popcorn rice and wild mushrooms
~or~
Creole Gratin of White Shrimp
Tasso and roasted root vegetables topped with manchego cheese
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Fig and Chicory Coffee Gâteau

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Brennan's
417 Royal St.
525-9711
www.brennansneworleans.com
Five courses, with a glass of wine, $75.
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*New Orleans Turtle Soup
~or~
*Oyster Soup Brennan
~or~
Maude's Seafood and Okra Gumbo
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*Egg Hussarde
Poached egg atop a holland rusk, canadian bacon, marchand de vin sauce topped with hollandaise sauce
~or~
*Egg Sardou
Poached egg on an artichoke bottom nestled in a bed of creamed spinach and covered with hollandaise sauce
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Brennan Salad
Romaine lettuce with a tangy creole dressing, grated parmesan cheese and croutons
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*Baby Rack of Lamb Roussel
Grilled whole and sliced into minichops. Served with bearnaise and choron sauce and a bouquetiere of fresh vegetables
~or~
Trout Amandine
Filet of trout sautéed and topped with lemon butter sauce and slivered almonds, accompanied by fresh potatoes
~or~
*Pepper Tournedos
Finely ground peppercorns are pressed into two prime tournedos and served in a sauce of natural juices, brandy and cream
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*Bananas Foster
Bananas sautéed in butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and banana liqueur, then flamed in rum. Served over vanilla ice cream
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Entrees Are Served with a Glass of White or Red Wine

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Broussard's
819 Conti St.
581-3866
www.broussards.com
Four courses, $46.
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*Cured German Ham
On seven grain bread with stuffed deviled egg
~or~
Patty Shell with Crawfish in Dill Sauce
~or~
*Hungarian Beef and Potato Soup
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Celeriac and Apple Salad with Chive Dressing
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*Stuffed Beef Roll with Red Cabbage
~or~
*Smoked Pork Loin and Bratwurst on Sauerkraut
~or~
*Veal Steak with Poached Egg and Potato Cake
~or~
*Pork Shank with Sauerkraut and Mashed Potatoes
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*Apple Strudel with Vanilla Sauce
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Coffee

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Café Degas
3127 Esplanade Ave.
945-5635
www.cafedegas.com
Four courses, $45
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*French Creole Style Hogshead Cheese
Served with cornichons and fig mustard
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*Herbsaint and Cream-Poached Oyster Stew
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*Dijon and Tasso-crusted Rack of Colorado Lamb
With hush puppies and roasted garlic demi-glace
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*Iles Flotantes (Floating Islands)
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Glass of Mulled Wine

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Chef Duke's Café Giovanni
117 Decatur St.
529-2154
www.cafegiovanni.com
Six courses, $65
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*Shrimp Rémoulade with Fried Green Tomatoes
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*Oyster and Artichoke Bisque
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*Veal Bolognese Ravioli
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*Duck Breast with Raspberry Chipotle Sauce
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*Colorado Lamb Chop with Goat Cheese Polenta
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Peach and Apple Cobbler with Mascarpone Sabayon

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Commander's Palace
1403 Washington Ave.
899-8221
www.commanderspalace.com
Four courses, $42
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Veloute of Local Cauliflower with Brie
~or~
*Wild Game Gumbo
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*The Reveillon Salad
Caramel-braised apples with mirlitons, grilled onions, winter greens, gingerbread croutons and house-distilled cider vinaigrette
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*Black Skillet-Seared Redfish
A sauté of roasted tomatoes, grilled eggplant, local legumes, soft herbs and champagne with black truffle crabmeat butter
~or~
*Brown Sugar and Sugarcane Smoked Duck
Barbecued onions, sweet potato pone, local figs, foie gras ganache and vanilla bourbon demi-glace
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*Warm Banana Toffee Cake
Melted chocolate, roasted peanuts, brûléed bananas and sticky New Orleans rum caramel

*
La Côte Brasserie
700 Tchoupitoulas St.
613-2350
www.lacotebrasserie.com
Four courses, $50
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*Louisiana Charbroiled Oyster, Herbsaint Parmesan Crust
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*Tuna Carpaccio Niçoise, Niçoise Olive Vinaigrette
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*Filet of Beef, Caramelized Potato Purée, Marchand de Vin
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*Pumpkin Bread Pudding, Cranberry Gastrique

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Court of Two Sisters
613 Royal St.
522-7261
www.courtoftwosisters.com
Four courses, $60
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*Turtle Soup au Sherry
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Crispy Petit Crabcake
Served on baby spinach with crumbled goat cheese, toasted pecans and shaved red onions, topped with a sweet dijon mustard vinaigrette
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*Seared Duck Breast a l'Orange
With confit dirty rice, sweet potato purée and candied pecans
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Assorted Dessert Tray
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Coffee or Tea

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Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse
716 Iberville St.
522-2467
www.dickiebrennanssteakhouse.com
Four courses, $46
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Housemade Seafood Sausage
With smothered cabbage and a Dijon green peppercorn cream
~or~
*Duck and Andouille Gumbo
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Prime BBQ Beef Salad
Fresh mixed greens tossed in a New Orleans style barbeque vinaigrette, prime beef medallions, heirloom tomatoes, shaved onions and bleu cheese croutons
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*Grilled 14-oz. Veal Chop
With sun dried tomato and spinach timbales and housemade wild mushroom raviolis, topped with caramelized shallot butter
~or~
Gulf Fish Napoleon
With peppery arugula salad, grilled red and yellow beef steak tomatoes topped with louisiana jumbo lumpcrabmeat and finished with a Crystal beurre blanc
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*Triple Chocolate Brownie
Topped with white chocolate ganache and served with white chocolate walnut ice cream

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Flaming Torch
737 Octavia St.
895-0900
www.flamingtorchnola.com
Four courses, $50
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*Escargots en Portobello
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*Filet of Lamb, Sea Scallop, Tournedos of Beef
With foie gras on bed of potato au gratin topped with armagnac demi-glace
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Petite Salade
With crouton toasted fromages
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Gâteau de Chocolate Blanc a L'Enver

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Gumbo Shop
630 St. Peter St.
525-1486
www.gumboshop.com
Four courses, $25
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*Oyster and Artichoke Soup
~or~
Chicken Andouille Gumbo
~or~
*Turtle Soup
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*Tossed Green Salad with Toasted Pecan Vinaigrette
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*Roasted Chicken with Oyster and Andouille Stuffing
~or~
Crawfish Etouffée over Rice
~or~
Crab Cakes with Green Peppercorn and Crawfish Sauce
~or~
Penne Pasta with Wild Mushroom Cream
~or~
*Roasted Half Duckling
With New Orleans rum and Louisiana citrus sauce

Entrees served with choice of Garlic Mashed New Potatoes, Creole Creamed Spinach, Macque Choux Corn, Smothered Turnip Greens
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Chocolate Cheesecake with Raspberry Chambord Sauce
~or~
*Hot Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce
~or~
*Homemade Pecan Pie
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*Café Brûlot

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Hunt Room Grill
In The Monteleone Hotel
214 Royal St.
523-3341
www.hotelmonteleone.com
Price of the entree includes entire four-course dinner
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*Warm Foie Gras
With poached Asian pear merlot gastrique and mission fig sabayon
~or~
*House Cured Gravlax
With braised white asparagus, wild rice blini and dill mustard sauce
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*Lobster Bisque
Enriched with cognac and fresh cream
~or~
*Salad Saint Sylvester
Wild greens, grilled black bread crouton, wild mushroom ragout, apple bacon vinaigrette
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*Christmas Grille $53
Veal with chanterelles, duck with red currants, lamb with English mint
~or~
*Salmon en Croute $47
Salmon filet wrapped in puff pastry with creamed spinach and chanterelles with truffle sauce
~or~
*Roasted Goose and Red Cabbage $49
Traditional Christmas goose with braised red cabbage and apples, caraway sauce
~or~
*Petite filet of beef $55
With foie gras and caramelized cipollini onions, perigourdine sauce
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*Bread Pudding
~or~
*Crème Brûlée
~or~
*Tiramisu

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Jacques-Imo's
8324 Oak St.
861-0886
www.jacquesimoscafe.com
Price of entree includes entire five-course dinner.
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*Shrimp and Alligator Sausage Cheesecake
~or~
*Fried Green Tomatoes with Shrimp Remoulade
~or~
Eggplant Jacques-Imo's
~or~
Chicken Livers with Toast
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*Duck and Andouille Gumbo
~or~
Oyster Brie Soup
~or~
*Turtle Soup
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House Spinach Salad with Sesame-Plum Vinaigrette
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*Chicken Pontalba $36
~or~
*Shrimp or Crawfish Etouffée $38
~or~
*Blackened Redfish $38
~or~
*Lamb Sirloin $40
~or~
*Grilled Duck Breast $42
~or~
*Yellowfin Tuna $42
~or~
Braised Short Ribs $42
~or~
*Carpetbagger Steak $48
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*Crème Brûlée
~or~
*Coconut Bread Pudding
~or~
Cheesecake

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Marigny Brasserie
640 Frenchmen St.
945-4472
www.marignybrasserie.com
Four courses, $65.
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Jumbo Gulf Shrimp Cocktail Amuse-Bouche
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*Grilled Hearts of Baby Romaine and Crispy Gulf Coast Oysters
With rémoulade-caesar dressing
~or~
*Wild Mushroom Soup
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*Beef Tenderloin Wellington
With moulard foie gras and portobello duxelles
~or~
*Roasted Maple Leaf Farms Duck
With oyster-cornbread dressing
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Velvet Chocolate Mousse
~or~
*Bûche de Noël
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Chef's Homemade Eggnog

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Mat and Naddie's
937 Leonidas St.
861-9600
www.matandnaddies.com
Four courses, $55
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*Duck Liver Terrine and Pork Rillette
With traditional accompaniments
~or~
*Grilled Oysters
With brie cream and shiitake "bacon"
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*Duck Confit Salad
With toasted walnuts, goat cheese, dried cherries and honey truffle oil vinaigrette
~or~
*Soda Cracker Crab Cakes
With cucumber slaw and mango chipotle chutney
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*Seared Venison Medallion
Encased in homemade boar green onion sausage with a potato-dill and duxelles roulade, braised cabbage and a guinness blackberry relish
~or~
*Bronzed Gulf Drum
Over basil and shrimp risotto with braised curly spinach
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*Lemon Pudding Cake
With cranberry-raspberry compote and sweetened crème fraîche

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MiLa
817 Common St.
525-1111
www.renaissanceperemarquette.com
(This menu subject to change, because it was planned before the new owner-chefs took over)
Four courses, $45
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Foie Gras and Wild Boar Pâté
With black mission fig-infused mustard
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Baby Spinach Salad
With Bittersweet Plantation goat cheese, roasted beets, chestnut vinaigrette
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Herb-Crusted Lamb Chops
With creamy polenta, braised greens, cranberry lamb demi-glace
~or~
Roasted Suckling Pig
With Fingerling Potato, Red Cabbage, Nueske Bacon
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Ginger Pecan Bread Pudding
With apple cinnamon gastrique

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Mr. B's Bistro
201 Royal Street
523-2078
www.mrbsbistro.com
Four courses, $45
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*Oyster Stew
With cream, leeks and brabant potatoes
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*Reveillon Salad
Seasonal baby greens with port wine poached pears, dried cranberries, blue cheese and roasted pecans
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*Braised Rabbit
Tender Mississippi rabbit braised with apple cider, applewood smoked bacon, roasted shallots and shiitake mushrooms; served with roasted garlic mashed potatoes
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*Chocolate Truffle Cake
Rich flourless chocolate cake layered with raspberry and chocolate ganache

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Muriel's Jackson Square
801 Chartres St.
568-1885
www.muriels.com
Four courses, $38
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*Fried Oyster Chowder
~or~
*Caramelized Onion and Leek Tart
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*Satsuma Salad
With a satsuma and roasted yellow bell pepper vinaigrette
~or~
*Duck Confit Salad
With pomegranate vinaigrette and roasted wild mushrooms
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Dijon Mustard-Crusted Salmon
With cucumber and an herbsaint- dill cream sauce
~or~
*Wood-Grilled Mississippi Quail
Served with a creole corn maque choux
~or~
*Roast Loin of North American Elk
With a Russian River Valley Pinot Noir reduction sauce
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*Warm Maracaibo Chocolate Cake
~or~
Vanilla Bean Crème Brûlée
~or~
*Pain Perdu Bread Pudding
With a Butter-rum Sauce

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Palace Café
605 Canal St.
523-1661
www.palacecafe.com
Four courses, $40
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*Beet Salad
Finely sliced beets with fennel, frisée, toasted walnuts, and warm Gorgonzola croutons, topped with sherry vinaigrette
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*Daube Glacé
With whole grain mustard and grilled artisanal bread
Gruyere and onion tartlet with celeriac and apple salad
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*Chestnut-Stuffed Turkey
With cassoulet, foie gras sauce
~or~
*Venison Loin au Poivre
With roasted root vegetables and a red cabbage confit, madeira wine sauce
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*Roasted Pear Tart
With goat cheese ice cream

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Pelican Club
312 Exchange Alley
523-1504
www.pelicanclub.com
Price of entree includes all four courses
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*Turtle and Alligator Soup
Served with aged sherry
~or~
Cream of Oyster and Mirliton Soup
With caviar and chives
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*Beef Daube and Foie Gras Ravioli
Mustard greens, pickled pork and Parmigiano Reggiano
Jumbo shrimp ravigote, spicy deviled egg and house-made pickled vegetables
~or~
*Grilled Mississippi Quail
Three-cheese grits, poached quail eggs, Niman Ranch apple- smoked bacon in a red onion vinaigrette
~or~
*Arugula Salad
Gorgonzola cheese, toasted pine nuts, Lester's Farm navel orange with a shallot and garlic vinaigrette
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Slow-Braised Beef Short Ribs $48
Truffle mashed potatoes, yukon gold potatoes, baby beans, and a cranberry-kumquat-marsala jus
~or~
*Roasted Duckling Half $48
Served in an orange-french cherry sauce and mirliton-oyster-tasso dressing
~or~
*Stuffed Double Pork Chop $46
Cornbread stuffing, bourbon candied yams, in a chipotle barbeque sauce
~or~
*Seafood Fricassee $48
Gulf drum, scallops, jumbo shrimp, mussels, clams and lobster, served with saffron risotto, garlic black bean sauce, and baby vegetable
~or~
*Filet Mignon $54
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*White Chocolate Bread Pudding
With dark and white chocolate sauce
~or~
*Brandy and Vanilla Bean Crème Brûlée
~or~
Flourless Chocolate Decadence Cake
With chantilly crème
~or~
*Pumpkin Pie
With chantilly crème
~or~
*Louisiana Citrus Cheesecake
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*New Orleans Style Eggnog with Southern Comfort

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Rib Room
Omni Royal Orleans Hotel
621 St. Louis St.
529-7045
www.omniroyalorleans.com
Four courses, $45
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*Trio of Shrimp Rémoulade, Ravigote and Cocktail
~or~
Sweet Potato Bisque
With sage brown butter and toasted pecans
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*Rib Room Salad
Crisp garden greens tossed with blue cheese dressing and homemade garlic croutons
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*Grilled Yellowfin Tuna Steak
With gulf shrimp and artichoke ragout, charred tomato vinaigrette
~or~
*Rib Room Rotisserie Duck
With red cabbage and natural jus
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Angel Food Cake
With fresh strawberries and vanilla cream

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Ristorante Carmelo
541 Decatur St.
586-1414
www.ristorantecarmelo.com
Four courses, $45
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*Spinaci con Gorgonzola Pancetta
Fresh spinach with pancetta, onions and mushrooms served with gorgonzola, olives and walnuts
~or~
*Insalata Caprese
Fresh mozzarella, tomato and basil in a balsamic vinaigrette
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*Caciucco Alla Toscana
Seafood soup of mussels, clams, lobster, scallops, calamari, louisiana shrimp in a light tomato broth served with toasted ciabatta bread
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*Fresh Fish of the Day
Grilled and topped with Louisiana shrimp, crabmeat in a light lemon butter sauce
~or~
*Veal Sorrentina
Sautéed white veal, eggplant, prosciutto, fresh mozzarella in a white wine sauce
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*Panna Cotta with Seasoned Berries
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Glass of Moscato (sweet dessert wine)

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Tujague's
823 Decatur
525-8676
www.tujagues.com
Five courses, $33
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*Shrimp Rémoulade
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Soup du Jour
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*Boiled Brisket of Beef Appetizer
With horseradish sauce
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Braised Lamb Shanks with Creole Stew
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*Banana Bread Pudding

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Upperline Restaurant
1413 Upperline St.
891-9822
www.upperline.com
Four courses, $38
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Glass of Madeira
~or~
*Turtle Soup
~or~
Creole Gumbo
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*Fried Green Tomato with Shrimp Rémoulade
~or~
*Spicy Crispy Oysters
~or~
Duck Andouille Etouffée
~or~
*Watercress and Stilton Salad
~or~
Reveillon Brie Salad
~or~
*Sweetbreads, Mushroom Ragout, Seared Foie Gras Bonaparte (add $4)
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*Cane River Shrimp Sauté
~or~
Sautéed Speckled Trout Meunière
~or~
*Grilled Salmon, Louisiana Oysters
~or~
*Veal Grillades, Cheddar Grits
~or~
*Roasted Duckling, pecan sweet potatoes
~or~
*Lamb Rack, Mint Madeira sauce (add $6)
~or~
*Filet Mignon Béarnaise (add $6)
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*Thomas Jefferson's Crème Brûlée
~or~
Profiteroles
Vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce
~or~
*Honey-Pecan Bread Pudding, Toffee Sauce
~or~
Stilton Cheese and Pecans
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Wine Pairings Available.

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Windsor Court Grill Room
300 Gravier St.
523-6000
www.windsorcourthotel.com
Four courses, $59
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*Daube Glace
With wild chive aioli, peppadew, and hawaiian salt crusted crackers
~or~
*Turtle Soup
With Dry Sack with spinach pate and deviled quail eggs
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*Fried Baby Artichokes
With hen of the woods mushrooms, roasted garlic, and lemon basil oil
~or~
*Confit of Goose
With quince jam and balsamic glazed red onions
~or~
Grilled Shrimp Salad
With blood orange and Santa Claus melon supremes
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*Redfish Court-Bouillon
With pecan spanish rice and artichoke tapenade
~or~
*Stuffed Rock Cornish Game Hen
With cornbread dressing and ginger snap gravy
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*Apple Tart Tatin
With maple sugar ice cream and cranberry compote
~or~
*Pumpkin Cheesecake
With caramel pecan sauce and whipped crème fraiche
~or~
*Eggnog Bread Pudding
With white chocolate ganache and nutmeg sable

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Zoe Bistrot
In the W Hotel
333 Poydras St.
Reservations: 525-9444
Four courses, $80
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Jerusalem Artichoke Purée
With duck confit and Point Reyes beggar's purse
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Winter Greens
Fog Horn goat cheese, candied chestnuts, golden rum-poached raisins, and cranberry vinaigrette over candied Washington red apples
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Foie Gras Trio
Seared foie gras with winter berry compote, foie gras crème brûlée, crepe and foie gras beggar's purse
~or~
Seared Sea Bass
With Carolina stone ground grits, poached brook oysters, rock shrimp, pork belly, and tricolor fingerling potatoes in a fish fumet
~or~
Virginia Ham and Cornbread-Stuffed Quail
Over Plugra butter-toasted baguette, garnished with a ragout of brabant sweet potato, roasted baby corn, crispy lardon, caramel, Granny Smith apple, pumpkin spice, fresh herbs and roasted quail jus
~or~
Braised Veal Cheeks
Served with a ragout of morels, trumpets, chanterelle mushrooms and black truffle essence and Parmesan risotto
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Pumpkin Trio of Crème Brûlée, Soufflé and Sorbet

Other Special Christmas Menus

Some restaurants offer interesting holiday-themed menus, even though they're not part of the Christmas New Orleans Style's official Reveillon program. (Some even use the Reveillon name.) Here are all of those I've heard about (so far--I invite restaurants with holiday menus to send them to me at tom@nomenu.com).

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   Andrea's
3100 19th Street, Metairie.
Reservations: 834-8583
www.andreasrestaurant.com
Four courses, $45
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Bresaola Di Valtellina
Cured beef on arugula with Reggiano cheese and truffled olive oil
~or~
Antipasto Al Italiano
Assorted marinated and grilled vegetables
~or~
Chestnut Soup
~or~
Stracciatella Soup
With spinach, egg, and parmesan cheese
~or~
Granzevole Andrea
Eggplant crabcake with brown butter sage with lemon butter sauce
~or~
Pumpkin Ravioli
~or~
Gnocchi Di Patate Emiliana
Homemade fresh dumpling served with brown butter sage sauce
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Tomato Mozzarella Caprese Salad
~or~
Italian Crabmeat Salad
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T-Bone Steak Florentine
Black Angus prime steak
~or~
Coniglio Al Forno
Oven baked rabbit
~or~
Osso Bucco Milanese
With saffron risotto
~or~
Double-Cut Pork Chop Abruzzi
Smoked apple stuffed pork chop & garlic sauce
~or~
Quail Principessa
Stuffed with sausage and wild rice, and cherry balsamic reduction
~or~
Axis Vension Natale
With polenta and red cabbage
~or~
Roast Pheasant Tuscany
Half young deboned pheasant with dry vermouth sauce
~or~
Scaloppine Of Venison Natale
Venison red wine sauce

Entrées served with spatzle & red cabbage
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Tira Mi Su
~or~
Torta Di Mandole
With vanilla ice cream
~or~
Chestnut Cake
~or~
Zuppa Inglese
(English Trifle)
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Dessert served with complimentary vin santo e biscotti

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Cuvee
322 Magazine
587-9001