New Orleans Culinary Walking Tour.

First Stop- Antoine's

Food- Gumbo




The meeting point of our tour was Antoine's. We tried gumbo and had a tour of the restaurant. The guide told us that the Thursday before Mardi Gras, the place sat 1,700 people for lunch! It doesn't look that big from the outside, but it is actually huge! We got to walk through all of the dining rooms (I think there were 13!)




Walls are covered with New Orleans and American History. Pictures of Kings and Queens from Mardi Gras, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, a bottle of wine from the last voyage of the Queen Mary, and even one of the first light bulbs invented by Thomas Edison!




One of the Dining rooms had a giant snail carved into the wall! How cool! Nathan decided to pet it.



To be continued...

Brennans

I had booked this breakfast at Brennan's almost immediately after finalizing plans to go to New Orleans. The food at this place is said to be legendary, and I have to say the grub was pretty damn good.

Nathan and I both ordered the Prix Fixe 3 course menu.

For appetizer, I ordered a baked apple in heavy cream. Very delicious! And Nathan ordered Oyster Soup. I didn't try any, but he ate it all, so It can't have been that bad.




And of Course we ordered Sazaracs for appetizer as well. I didn't really like it, so nathan drank the rest of mine.



A Sazerac is a Drink that originated in New Orleans, if you like Anise flavored drinks, you will probably like to have one. A Sazerac is made with Rye, Herbsaint or absinth, and Peychaud's Bitters (also originated in NOLA)

For the main course I had Eggs Hussarde. Poached eggs on Canadian bacon and holland rusks, with hollandaise and Marchand De Vin Sauce.




Brennans was kind enough to post the recipe Here

Nathan Ordered Eggs Owen
Poached Eggs with beef hash and marchand de vin sauce
Oh gosh, and here is the Recipe for it




There was an elephant in my coffee



But, the main attraction here was the dessert! Brennans actually invented the dish Bananas Foster, so it seemed like we would be silly not to order it. I didn't order it....



But, Nathan did! I ordered the crepes Rockafeller and they were ridiculous! Thin crepes filled with cream cheese and flambeed strawberries. It was soooo good.


We also had a bottle of wine.

We left the place pretty damn happy.