| Winter Update |
[Nov. 17th, 2007|08:22 am] |
When people ask me what the best time of year is to visit New Orleans, I usually suggest December. The weather varies from T-Shirt and shorts days, to those just nippy enough to feel appropriate for the holidays. Many of the city’s beautiful historic homes are decked out and on tour. And the already amazing food gets kicked up another notch with special “Reveillon” menus at lots of restaurants.
During the mid-1800s, New Orleans' Creole families celebrated the "Reveillon" (French for "awakening") after Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, when families returned from St. Louis Cathedral to break a daylong fast with an elaborate meal.
You don’t have to eat that late to enjoy today’s version of that meal.
Here’s what one of our nearby favorite places will be serving:
The Marigny Brasserie
Jumbo Gulf Shrimp Cocktail Amuse-Bouche
Choice of:
Grilled Hearts of Baby Romaine & Crispy Gulf Coast Oysters with Rémoulade-Caesar Dressing • Wild Mushroom Soup
Choice of:
Beef Tenderloin Wellington with Moulard Foie Gras & Portobello Duxcelle • Roasted Maple Leaf Farms Duck with Oyster-Cornbread Dressing
Choice of:
Velvet Chocolate Mousse • Bûche de Noël
Chef's Homemade Eggnog
There are lots of other choices and we’ll be glad to share our other favorites with you if you visit.
Another of our favorite holiday events is a series of free concerts at the Cathedral with some of our most talented local music folk. Here’s that schedule:
∑ December 4 : Rachel Van Voorhees and Friends
∑ December 5: Aubry Bryan, Tenor
∑ December 11 : John Fohl, Theresa Andersson and David Doucet
∑ December 12: Tyrone Foster and The Arc Singers
∑ December 18: Phillip Manuel and Leah Chase
∑ December 19: Rev. Lois J. DeJean, Gospel Diva and Friends
And there are free cooking demonstrations, horse drawn carriage tours of the millions of tiny lights that fill the oak trees in City Park, and lots more stuff we’ll be happy to share. Just call us or send us an email.
And one last piece of news before we go. We have terrific new neighbors. The huge former furniture store across the street from us is being converted into an exciting new development for our neighborhood. It will house the New Orleans Healing Center, envisioned as a facility that will provide space for yoga classes, massage therapists, natural food restaurants, and a co-op food store. It will offer short courses on a wide variety of subjects that are expected to range from astrology to language classes. The facility will also house a police substation, and our friends in law enforcement have already begun to move in. I’m sure it’s a welcome change from the trailers they’ve been working from since Katrina. |
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