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Left to right; The season is sparkling at
Royal Sonesta Hotel in the French Quarter;
Ron at Arnaud’s prepares Cafe Brulot, a
coffee/brandy concoction that is the best
way to end a meal at New Orleans’ classic
Creole restaurants.; Jackson Square is ready
for the holidays

“ During that month, more than 50 of this food city’s great restaurants celebrate

the season with reveillon dinner menus that offer special multi-course feasts.”

“Some 98 percent of New Orleans in that era was Catholic,” here and you have found a splendid sweet spot to celebrate
Nickell told us. “The feast after Christmas Eve mass was a the season.
way to give thanks, while the second reveillon on New Year’s
Patti, Pat and I split our time between two French Quarter
Eve was just to party.”
hotels.
New Orleans does that really well anytime.
First, we checked into Maison Dupuy on Toulouse at Bur-
But add this culinary twist to the holiday decorations that gundy in a quiet residential section of the French Quarter.
festoon virtually every hotel lobby and wrought-iron balcony Built in 1973, it was the last hotel to be built in the historic

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