We Live To Eat At NOLA

The website for the annual Restaurant Week (this week, in case you've missed all of my alerts and bulletins) is "welivetoeatnola.com." So it's appropriate that our final Restaurant Week recommendation for this year (it ends Saturday) is at Emeril's NOLA. In fact, all three of Emeril's restaurants (Emeril's and Delmonico, too) are engaged for the $39, three-course Restaurant Week special dinners. Each restaurant has a different menu. Here's the one for Emeril's most casual place, NOLA. I'd say it's one of the four or five best this season:

Chilled Avocado-Buttermilk Soup
Louisiana blue crab, cucumber salsa
~or~

Smoked Duck and Pepperjack Cheese Spring Roll
Ancho chile aioli, carrot-celery slaw
~or~

Baby Arugula Salad
Local goat cheese, cantaloupe, spicy pineapple vinaigrette
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Pan Roasted Gulf Fish
Fingerling potatoes, tomato comfit, peach relish, poblano vinaigrette
~or~

Shrimp & Grits
Sautéed Gulf shrimp, sesame broccoli, green onion grits, hoisin butter sauce
~or~

Buttermilk Fried Breast of Chicken
Bourbon mashed sweet potatoes, country ham gravy, sautéed sugar snap peas
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Banana Pudding Layer Cake
Graham cracker crust, vanilla wafers, fudge sauce
~or~

Key Lime Pie Bread Pudding
Vanilla meringue, key lime curd, rum-ginger caramel sauce, graham cracker ice cream

NOLA

French Quarter: 534 St Louis. 504-522-6652. www.emerilsrestaurants.com/nola-restaurant.

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