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New Orleans bread pudding is custard-soaked French bread baked into a tall pillow with raisins and a soft top, then drowned in warm bourbon-butter sauce. Pure Creole-restaurant comfort.
Bread pudding entered Creole cooking via French and English colonial households; the New Orleans version codified in the 19th century around the city's plentiful day-old French bread (the Leidenheimer loaf in particular). Commander's Palace and Galatoire's both ran versions through the late 1800s; the bourbon-sauce form became standard mid-20th-century. Boucherie's chef Nathanial Zimet made the unusual Krispy Kreme bread pudding (built on glazed doughnuts) a city talking point in the 2000s; Atchafalaya's brunch service plates a classic French-bread version under bourbon sauce. The dish is as much a Sunday-supper home staple as a restaurant signature.
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Commander's Palace in New Orleans is the 1893 Garden District grande dame on Washington Avenue, the Brennan family flag with turtle soup, jacket-required.
OrderThe turtle soup with sherry tableside. It has been on the menu since the dining room opened in 1893.
TipBook the upstairs Garden Room for the live courtyard view; the dress code requires collared shirts at dinner.
Boucherie in New Orleans is Nathanial Zimet's Carrollton tasting-menu room, a former food truck turned Southern-modern five-course degustation.
OrderThere is no choice; the five-course tasting changes with the produce. End with the Krispy Kreme bread pudding.
TipBourree next door is the daiquiri and wings spinoff; sit there first for a cocktail before dinner.
Atchafalaya in New Orleans is the Louisiana Avenue Creole room on the edge of the Garden District, known for a build-your-own Bloody Mary bar and the duck.
OrderThe duck hash with sunny eggs, then build a Bloody Mary at the bar.
TipBrunch runs Saturday and Sunday with live music; arrive at 09:30 or hold for the 13:00 turn.
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