What a conundrum. Do I run my reviews from the most recent restaurant week visits or the ones from LAST restaurant week that I hadn’t gotten around to finishing up?
Okay, oldest first: Acadiana, our first visit in September 2006’s restaurant week. Promising Southern Louisiana style cooking this was the big success of our late 2006 RW outing. With entree prices between $12 and $27, with most being around $14, Acadiana’s prices are fairly reasonable even outside of RW. It’s when you opt for the appetizer menu choices that you end up more heavily dinged. The lowest price options are a trio of deviled eggs or chicken and sausage gumbo for $7, but don’t need to concern yourself with the more costly oysters, fried tomatos or goat cheese tart – if you order anything other than the gumbo you’re a raving fool.
The entrees were also good but they suffered from following that amazing appetizer. How could anything else measure up? I had the tenderloin, my darling girlfriend had the New Orleans style barbeque shrimp. Both were good, but did I mention the gumbo? We’re not normally desert people so it’s faded from my memory. Not bad, but nothing standout enough to recall.
We’ll definitely be back.
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
Well I used to say something in my profile about not quite being a “tinker, tailor, soldier, or spy” but Tom stole that for our about us page, so I guess I’ll have to find another way to express that I am a man of many interests.
Hmm, guess I just did.
My tastes run the gamut from sophomoric to Shakespeare and in my “professional” life I’ve sold things, served beer, written software, and carried heavy objects… sometimes at the same place. It’s that range of loves and activities that makes it so easy for me to love DC – we’ve got it all.
