Arun Nair
My three star rating is taking into account the hype of this restaurant and the menu prices. In true New Orleans fashion, the service here is slow and relaxed. All the staff was very friendly. However I was not impressed with the taste of many of the food items. The cocktails were amazing and the garlic bread was great. We got a trio of soup and the butternut squash was extremely sweet, to point that it tasted like dessert. The turtle soup and gumbo were decent. But my first disappointment was the grilled oysters. It did not taste fresh by any means and just left a weird aftertaste in your mouth, and you should never get that feeling after eating oysters. The Gulf fish and the crabcake main entrées were very good. However the lamp chops were not. It tasted like some sort of barbecued sweet lamb chops instead of what I would expect from a creole restaurant. That was a huge disappointment for a member of our party. For dessert we got the beignets and the bananas Foster tableside flambé and they were both really great. The consensus was that we would come back here just for desserts but not for a full meal in the future because their other dessert items on the menu looked really good too.
