New Orleans : FOOD

 

Last nights postings were a little brief due to... well, being in New Orleans. 

Frequent readers of the kyle+blog know that it is all about the food here and last night was a VERY nice way to start things off. : ORLEANS GRAPEVINE, WINE BAR AND BISTRO. YUM!

A Very tiny place that we so would have never found had we not been with two friends that live here. I do have to say that they were not really used to having someone plates of take pics of their food.. , they are skinny types,  who eat because they are hungry!?!

Cute as can be tiny little restaurant with a big bar, a couple of six or eight top marble tables, and then maybe 10 tiny little marble four tops. Exposed distressed brick walls, very nice low lighting, a very friendly helpful wait staff. ( Everyone here seems to be in a really good mood, all happy that they sort of dodged the last big storm, a sort of survivor , very jolly , esprit de coup, is everywhere).

Neil , Michael and I started off with the gumbo special of the day which was chicken and andouille. " Why cant I do this ??" I whined to Neil. "Why doesn't my gumbo have this  light richness of flavor this  yummy complex smokiness". It was just a wonderful dish. Served over some New Orleans Pop Corn rice, that I had not had in a long time. Brett had the Lobster Bisque, which he thoroughly enjoyed.

I had the special for dinner, which was REDFISH with Glazed Pecans and Lump Crab Meat. SO, SO , good... the texture of the fish was just perfect with the BIG hunks of crab. The very toasted buttery pecans gave a saltiness and level of texture that just set the whole dish off. It was just perfect on a warm late summer night. It was served with some yummy , some how spicy hericot vert and more of the local rice . Neil had the more traditional stuffed flounder and Brett had a killer double bone pork chop served over these tiny cubed sweet potatoes,something I had never seen, and will be trying at home. Really, a delight of a little local restaurant, that like I said, we would have never gone to with out the knowledge of locals, so many thanks to Brett and Micheal. 

Only day one of our little food Odyssey. Today might be the search for the perfect Fried Oyster Po Boy....