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! 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 Non-Drinkers |
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 54 Cafe Giovanni Gonzalez 6 Adams 4 Sammartino 2 12 |