Our recent trip to New Orleans, or as I like to call it . . . How to O.D. on pork belly and confit! Featured dishes from Herbsaint. The entire meal was delightful. Starting with Beep's favorite the crispy poached egg over taso ham carbonara, my crab tower with beets and grapefruit and just because two appetizers are never enough, the grit cake with taso ham, tomato mushroom okra sauce with shrimp and the gumbo were must haves. Main course, none other than the king and queen of New Orleans, pork belly with Louisianna style sticky rice and perfectly cooked sweet and tangy greens and confit that was a combination of moist and crunchy over a delicious cajun rice. One of our favorite additions to the meal was the marble-sized fried brussel sprouts, perfectly crisp and finished with salt, they were addictive. To top it all off we ordered two desserts, Beep, the Banana Brown Butter tart with Fleur de Sel Caramel and I thoroughly enjoyed a marshmallowy pillow of creaminess, Ponchatoula Strawberry Balsamico with Creole Cream Cheese Mousse. The certainly don't skimp when naming these dishes and they don't skimp on the flavor either.
Herbsaint is upbeat while at the same time very cozy with wonderful staff and the intermittent rumble of the trolley passing by reminds you that you are in a very special town.
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