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The Crab & Green Papaya Remoulade at Brennan’s features New
Orleans-grown green papaya with Louisiana jumbo lump crab with a
satsuma dressing.
Right: Sarah Arceneaux, floor captain and sommelier at Brennan’s,
prepares Crepes Fitzgerald table side. They’re flambeed twice with
local praline liqueur as well as Maker’s Mark bourbon.

potatoes and broccoli; chicken Pontalba, a breast served on
a bed of Brabant potatoes with Neuske ham, green onions
and mushrooms, topped with bearnaise sauce; pan-sauteed
Puppy Drum, a white fish topped with Louisiana jumbo
lump crab and beurre blanc; or grilled double-cut pork chop
topped with Steen’s cane apple glaze, served with roasted
sweet potatoes and Swiss chard. (www.tujagues.com.)
Dessert offered a choice of white chocolate bread
pudding with bourbon caramel sauce or Madagascar vanilla
bean creme brûlée.
After dinner at Tujague’s on Decatur Street, walk
several blocks east to the connecting Frenchmen Street in
the adjacent Faubourg Marigny neighborhood where some
of New Orleans’ best music clubs reside. Check out The
Spotted Cat, Apple Barrel or The Blue Nile.
Also on Frenchmen Street (619 Frenchmen) is the
Frenchmen Art Market, NOLA’s only weekly nighttime art
market that offers original art, jewelry and crafts by local and
regional artists — another good shopping destination during
the holidays. This market opens Thursdays-Mondays from 7
p.m. to 1 a.m. (Sundays from 6 p.m. to midnight).

The next morning, we walked to Brennan’s, one of
the city’s most famous restaurants where Bananas Foster
began and where breakfast became another celebratory
meal in this city. The restaurant was closed for a few years

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