Ladee's Travels: New Orleans -25 cent Pear Martini's at Antoine's

New Orleans is filled with music, all the time. This is our favorite corner, as the performers here are unique and colorful. (Watch for the unique and colorful character at the end of the video and notice the toe tapping foot action.) If you like the music, you can purchase a CD for $10.

Choice of Pear or Lemon Drop Martinis today

What a way to start: 25 cent martinis!!! We had a choice of Pear or Lemon Zinger. I will add more food photos later. I'm going to have the $20.11 fixed price luncheon special: cup of gumbo, [another martini], Antoine's Louisianna Gulf Shrimp Creole [plus another martini] and Pecan Bread Pudding for dessert. Note that this price does not include the 9.75% tax, a well deserved gratuity for Austin, and 25 cents for each martini.

This restaurant is huge and seats 1300 people. It is a museum with walls of photos of all of the past Mardi Gras queens. There are party rooms that have been reserved by the Mardi Gras "teams" for over 75 years, a huge wine "hall", and delightful memorabilia capturing moments in New Orleans history. I added the photos of the other places in the restaurant at the end of this post.

Seafood Gumbo - A classic preparation of rich Louisiana gumbo with blue crabs, oysters, and gulf shrimp

Pear Martini #2

Choice 1: Antoine's Louisianna Gulf Shrimp Creole
Fresh Louisiana shrimp in the classical Creole tomato sauce, served with steamed white rice

Choice 2: Veal Burgundy
Lightly floured Veal with a burgundy mushroom sauce served with pecan rice.

Pear Martini #3 - they are so smooth!

Bread pudding - tasty sauce, dallop of whipped creme with a mint leaf
Pudding de Pain de Noix de Pecan
A cinnamon and raisin bread pudding topped with warm Rum sauce

Antoine's is a museum...a collection of goodies from yesterday, and today. Be sure to walk throughout the restaurant to see all that they have to view.