Dinner with the Browns

Eric and I after dinner.. the tin foil sculpture in front of us is a loaf of french bread that we took home with the tin foil shaped as a 'viking boat.' So creative. The table behind us got a tin foil 'swan.'
The four of us at the Commander's Palace. Way fancy restaurant in the Garden District in New Orleans. We arrived 1 hour early for our reservation and, thankfully, they let us be seated. Good thing too, because we were there for 3 hours! It was great spending time together and the food was quite delicious! Here's what we ordered:

Our Appetizer: 'Shrimp & Tasso Henican': Louisiana wild white shrimp, Crystal hot sauce, pickled okra and five pepper jelly. This dish was very much on the spicy side and oh so scrumptious!

Eric: Turtle soup - different, but good. 'King of Seafood': Wild caught Gulf fish, Louisiana wild white shrimp and blue crabmeat over sliced Creole tomatoes with grilled Alabama sweet corn and champagne-shellfish butter.

Myself: 'The Commander's Salad' and the New York strip of Kobe beef: A hand selected strip of American Wagyu with duck fat fingerling potatoes, bruleed shallots, local snap and yellow wax beans, roasted morels, pesto-Parmesan pommes frites and Tabasco-red pepper paint. - Not gonna lie, I don't know what half of those things are, but I do know that it was mighty tasty!

The Browns' had: 'Veal Chop Tchoupitoulas' and 'Foie Gras "Du Monde"'. I tried the Foie Gras and my was that a different taste for me! I'd never eaten duck before and honestly, I'm okay with never eating it again. The flavors were good but I think it was just too much for me...

My dessert, Creole bread pudding souffle aka "The Queen of Creole desserts."
Eric's dessert, creme brulee.