New Orleans Eat Club

Coming Events


About Our  Dinners
It's a wide-open club. Eat Club events are open to everyone! Singles are as welcome as couples. Don't worry about being among strangers. About a third of the people at every dinner are first-timers, too, and you'll make friends with the others at your table quickly. Our dinners are convivial and unpretentious. We don't give speeches or long diatribes about the food or wines (just a little at the beginning). Just good food and wine.

The host is me-- Tom Fitzmorris, host of The Food Show on 1350 AM radio, and the publisher of the New Orleans Menu Daily. I move around from table to table all night long so I can tell the same jokes over and over again. I hold these dinners as a service to diners and restaurateurs. The entire payment for the dinner goes to the restaurant. I don't get any part of it. I'm here for the fun and camaraderie.

Reservations Essential!
Once you're reasonably sure you'll be there.
We usually sell out, so reserve early. If you need to cancel, please let me know no less than two days before the dinner.
Please understand that I sometimes have to pay for no-shows out of my own pocket.

Confirmations Because e-mail is not entirely reliable, I now post a list of the last names of everyone whose reservation is confirmed. It's in the right-hand column of this page. Allow 24 hours after you send your reservation to give me time to post  it. If you're on the list, we look forward to seeing you. If not, please contact me again here. I will still send an e-mail to you as soon as I can after you reserve.

Unless otherwise noted, the prices include the complete dinner, tax, tip, and wine, but not cocktails. Cash will get you out faster, but credit cards are okay. At some dinners, we collect at the beginning just to speed things up at the end. Smoking is not permitted at Eat Club dinners.

First-Timers
If you've never been to one of our dinners before and are hesitant, please give it a try! You'll find a very sociable bunch of people, many of whom will also be first-timers. Singles (some of whom are married to too-busy spouses) are also always with us. We sit together at big tables, and share easy conversation as well as the wine and food. No gourmet pretensions or speeches; we're primarily interested in eating well and having a fun evening. The chefs and wine distributors give us unusually good work at attractive prices.

Non-Drinkers
Discount
There isn't one. The wines are usually provided by a wine distributor or wholesaler, and we don't pay much (or anything) for them. But if you'd rather drink iced tea, go ahead! You won't be the only one.


We Finally Get It Together For Dinner At
Cafe Giovanni
117 Decatur, French Quarter
Thursday, June 12, 6:30 p.m.
$80, inclusive of tax, tip, and wines
Validated $5 parking at Marriott Hotel, around the corner at Canal and Chartres

Click here to reserve.
CONFIRMATION LIST:
Check the list of names in the blue box at right to see if your reservation is confirmed. (Allow 24-36 hours.)

Chef Duke Locicero has invited us back for another one of his massive New World Italian feeds,  accompanied by the magnificent voices who sing in  the restaurant most nights. Eight courses! Four or five or six wines! Chef Duke says that he'll take it easy on the portion sizes, but after all these meals, I'm hungry again four or five days later.

The wines come from Norman Vineyards in Paso Robles, south of San Francisco. Here's the menu:

Spicy Caprese Seafood
Variety of crab, shrimp, crawfish, in a spicy creamy sauce over a sliced tomato and mozzarella caprese salad
Wine: Norman Vineyards Pinot Grigio

Soup of Louisiana Snapper and Mussels
Wine: Norman Vineyards Syrah

Gnocchi With Wild Mushroom And Truffle Demi
With Tuscany spinach and spicy jumbo scallops and shrimp.
Wine: Norman Vineyards Classic Zin
 
Cajun Roasted Duck Breast
With baby figs and balsamic maple syrup glaze.
Wine: Norman Vineyards No Nonsense Meritage

Rabbit Ragout
with rosemary biscuit
Wine: Norman Vineyards Crescendo Meritage

Marinated Double American Lamb Chop
With goat cheese polenta and fig and olive tapenade.
Wine: Norman Vineyards Monster Zin

Chocolate and Rum Raisin Zabaglione
With balsamic strawberries.
Wine: Norman Vineyards Port


Click here to reserve.


 
Confirmations

Impastato's

Daussat 2
Vise 2
Vincent 1
Meldrum 2
Judson 1
Arnolds 4
Voisin 4
Wolff 4
Cheramie 6
Bozant 2
Schoen 2
Carroll 4
Brammer 1
Burke 4
Boudreaux 2
Dorcik 1
Zander 2


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Cafe Giovanni

Gonzalez 6
Adams 4
Sammartino 2

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