Café Adelaide

Frommer's Review

Former Commander's Palace (the same branch of Brennans owns both restaurants) Sous Chef Danny Trace has transformed this place from a very good dining option to an excellent one, one that can stand along the best in town at any time. He's playing around with classic local dishes, made with local ingredients, but with the sort of fresh and clever twists needed to keep it all out of the Creole business-as-usual rut. Try the Louisiana boucherie (pork tenderloin with blackberry honey, tasso and andouille pie or tasso braised cabbage, and boudin crepinette); or the Tabasco soy glazed tuna (with celery root purée); or the seared duck breast (with duck cracklins cornbread, roasted tomato jam, and topped with a sunny-side up quail egg). For a change, we are going to steer you toward a savory dessert, the drunken fig bleu cheese tart. At breakfast they offer the classic pain perdu, New Orleans's version of French toast. The drinks, especially the sweet and powerful house Swizzle Stick (which can be had on the festive cocktail sampler tree; ask for one!), make this a bar worth investigating as well. Look for specials such as three courses for $38, and four for $47.

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