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Café Amelie
The French Quarter's best al fresco dining is to be found in this charmed spot. Amelie occupies an old carriage house, set deep within a beautiful courtyard surrounded by high brick walls and shaded by trees. Fresh seafood and local produce are the basis of a modest, everchanging menu. When available, don't pass on the killer mussels served in a Pernod sauce. Pan seared salmon and blackened rack of lamb make frequent appearances.
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Café Degas
A full-grown pecan tree thrusts through the floor and ceiling of the enclosed deck which serves as Café Degas' congenial dining room. This is a rustic and romantic little spot that warms the heart with first-rate French bistro fare. The casual atmosphere is accentuated by the mildly eccentric, but exceedingly polite waitstaff.
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Casamentos
Here's where hardcore oyster fiends go for their fix of raw ones on the half shell. The oysters are always the freshest and are administered in a most impeccably clean, vintage 1949 setting imaginable. A thick gumbo with Creole tomatoes and oyster loaf (a sandwich of breaded and fried oysters on white bread) also have faithful followers.
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Cuvée
Cuvée is a high-class joint in a stylishly converted warehouse space. Its thoughtful, descriptive menu projects an understandable pride in fine ingredients and cooking methods. Influences range freely from Cajun, Creole and French cuisines for exotic originals that are to be admired and savored bite by bite. The dinner menu might include grilled redfish over andouille hash, mustard and herb-coated salmon and seared sea scallops with toasted pearl pasta and truffle shellfish fumet.
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Herbsaint
Chefs Donald Link's menu is an homage to traditional French bistro fare, but not without strong Louisianan inflections or subtle, contemporary innovations. Steak frites appears in the form of a grilled hanger steak with fries and a zesty pimento aioli, and frog legs in a light herbed batter are served on a starter plate. The dining room, understated and warmly lit by windows, is especially pleasant for lunch. Reservations are a good idea.
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Lemon Grass Cafe
In the International House Hotel, Lemon Grass is the chic culinary atelier of chef Minh Bui, whose highly original menu borrows freely from French cuisine as well as the cooking of his own native Vietnam. Main dishes change frequently, depending on what's locally fresh, but may include lacquered duck, smoked with five spices and served over black bean sticky rice, or Viet bird nest, which is a bed of crispy yellow noodles piled high with sautéd seafood and vegetables.
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Martinique Bistro
French cuisine with a little snap from the island of Martinique. It's a cottage bistro with a lush courtyard. In a pleasant warm twilight, with the doors flung open, the atmosphere is both exotic and convivial. The cooking has an accomplished simplicity.
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Restaurant August
In a 19th-century tobacco warehouse converted into a very swanky upscale dining room, August is a Warehouse District highlight. The emphasis here is Creole-French, and dishes aim to surprise and satisfy contemporary palates. Dinner standouts include tender slow roasted pheasant with wild mushrooms and bread dumplings, Morccan-spiced duck with polenta and foie gras, and prime filet of beef with short ribs and smoked marrow.
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