Summer Menus Won't Die At Commander's. Great Wine Dinner There This Week, Too.

The organized citywide summer specials are just about over for the year. But a few restaurants are carrying them forward a little longer. Among those are the three eminently appealing places under the Commander's Palace aegis--,u>Cafe Adelaide, SoBou, and Commander's itself. All three places offer two-course lunches for $20 and three-course dinners for $39, through September 21. (Coincidentally, that's the day fall begins.) To view the menus, click on the restaurant links just above. On top of that, this Friday Commander's is serving a five-course diner themed to the wines of Commander's Palace celebrates the wines of two outstanding winemakers from South Africa, Adi Badenhorst and Eben Sadie. Chef Tory McPhail will whip up a unique menu to go with the wines, which will include a Chenin Blanc from the oldest Chenin vines in South Africa. The food looks exceptionally good to me--including those superb Colorado lamb chops Commander's has long served. The price is $125 plus tax and tip. Contact Morgan Trulen, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Commander's: 504-899-9591.

Island Spiced Lobster Salad
Citrus marinated lobster over crisp limestone lettuce with celeriac remoulade, tropical fruit, hearts of palm, marinated tomatoes and spiced basil vinaigrette
Wine: 2012 Sadie Family Skerpioen Chenin Blanc/Palomino

Hickory Grilled Gulf Pompano
Tasso grilled kale flambéed with aged whisky, foraged mushrooms, autumn onions, sweet potato brabants, ripped herbs and smoky Creole tomato vinaigrette
Wine: 2010 Badenhorst Family White Blend

Chicory Coffee Lacquered South Carolina Quail
Creole pork belly boudin over andouille smothered onions, rustic cabbage, five pepper jelly and chicory coffee-sugarcane glaze
Wine: 2012 Sadie Family Pofadder Cinsault

Rosemary & Creole Mustard Crusted Colorado Lamb
Hand carved lamb and French boulanger potatoes with rustic roots, sticky lamb bone broth and Woodford Reserve mint julep jus
Wine: 2010 Badenhorst Family Red Blend

Crottin de Chavignol
A beautifully aged goats milk cheese from the Loire Valley in France with warm ginger bread, coconut & speculoos ice cream, whipped almond butter and salted sheeps’ milk caramel.
Wine: 2012 Sadie Family Mev. Kirsten Old Vine Chenin Blanc

Commander's Palace

Uptown 1: Garden District & Environs: 1403 Washington Ave. 504-899-8221. www.commanderspalace.com.

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