Cafe Adelaide's Swizzle Stick Bar

Michael Green
Michael Green
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Cafe Adelaide - Commander's Palace "Light"

  • December 31, 2008
  • Rated 5 of 5 by pointerbd from Norristown, Pennsylvania
Cafe Adelaide - Commander's Palace "Light"

What a pleasant surprise awaited us on Christmas night when we stumbled upon Cafe Adelaide (adjacent to the Swizzle Stick Bar) in the lovely Loews Hotel in the Convention District. We had just stepped out of the movie theater in Canal Place and there were not many promising choices open at 7:00pm Christmas night.
Cafe Adelaide not only greeted us with open arms but provided us with possibly the best meal of our entire trip! The Swizzle Stick Bar (where we waited for our table) provided an absolutely fabulous drink titled appropriately"Oh Delicious" -filled with limoncello and other enticing liquors. Hubby opted for a Cosmopolitan and he dubbed it the best in New Orleans (even tho he usually drinks Hurricanes..hmmm).We were shown to our table,greeted sincerely by name and presented with a menu and recommendations from both the maitre'd and server.
Adelaide's follows the Commander's Palace tradition (it is actually a bistro version of the reknowned NO restaurant) of serving everyone at precisely the same moment. This requires the enlistment of all available servers at the exact second the dishes come out of the kitchen. Not an easy task but accomplished smoothly by the experienced staff here. I was more than pleased with our Turtle Soup and delighted beyond belief with the Muscovy Duck perfectly cooked at medium,paired with a lovely glass of zinfandel recommended by my attentive and charming server.
My partner went with a steak -and for someone who claims not to be a steak afficionado,he relished every morsel. While the desserts looked tempting we could not eat another bite but vowed to return on another visit to this lovely little secret on Poydras St.!

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