These restaurants show just why the Crescent City rules.
After fitful starts and restarts that punctuated two years of pandemic agony, New Orleans’ tourism industry is on the rebound. The new year has already brought the successful return of Mardi Gras, the French Quarter Festival and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. And 2022 will continue to bring tourists back for events such as the Essence Festival on Fourth of July weekend and Southern Decadence over Labor Day weekend.
New and legacy restaurants in the French Quarter, the heart of the tourist draw, show just why the Crescent City rules.is from a familiar face on the city’s dining scene. James Beard Award-winning Donald Link, founder of the Link Restaurant Group opened his grand ode to French-inspired Louisiana cuisine in late 2021.
Bijou, opened in late 2021 on the northernmost boundary of the French Quarter, is an inviting new player with a tapas-style menu from chef Eason Barksdale, who mentored under superchef Susan Spicer at her Bayona and Mondo restaurants. It’s a lively restaurant set in a historic Creole cottage designed with a snug bar up front and a narrow passage to a larger, light-filled bar and dining room in back with a patio.
Pronounced “two jacks,” the restaurant offers a menu of New Orleans classics: shrimp remoulade on fried green tomatoes, gumbo, pan-roasted chicken breast, sauteed veal and crawfish over mushroom pappardelle, bread pudding and king cake pain perdu. A vintage ambiance was thankfully preserved in the move, and perhaps the restaurant’s ghostly apparitions, part of Tujague’s famous haunted history, have migrated, too.
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