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Just back from NOLA we happened into a NOLA themed restaurant, which
has recently moved into the old Gus’s Chalet. We show up just after
the lunch rush and the let down in service is noticeable. Our server
is friendly but for the first part of our visit is busy keeping up
with side work. I was caught by the idea of the hot crawfish cheese
dip, Steph indulged her newfound love of crustaceans with the shrimp
and grits and I tried the wharf shrimp po-boy. |
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We were started with some warm crusty bread, which was served with straight butter rosettes and garlic butter rosettes. The bread wasn’t Leidenheimers but it was pretty darn good. The butter, not so much. Having taken the time to pipe them into rosettes and not having used them as quickly as their par suggested, they had become either fridge burned or rancid by some other mechanism. Form over function…certainly not the way of New Orleans.
The dip…the dip. Okay, good things. It was hot, had big chunks of
crawfish tail, was moronically rich with cheese-lemon-buerre blanc-jalapeno,
toasty disks of bread…it had a good bit going for it. On the
downside, there was something peculiar in the flavor profile. I
couldn’t make it out, but I did keep going back to it over and over,
so it couldn’t have been all that bad.
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 Weird But Addictive Crawfish Dip |
 Had Big Chunks Of Tail |
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My po-boy looked different from Domilese’s or
Mother’s, especially
being covered with cheese and decorated with remoulade. The worst
part were the waffle fries which were nicely browned but still cold
and raw tasting inside. The shrimp were fine, but were really lost
in the rest of the affair. I found them better than the shrimp and
grits which were more of a greasy mess and missing more than one of
the ingredients listed on the menu. We took a good bit of both home
(the dip really did us in) the shrimp and grits went in the trash
and I finished the sandwich somewhere down the line. The fries were
left on the table. If you’re going to Creo’s, go before a trip to
New Orleans…not after. |
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 Grits Kinda A Mess |
 As Were The Still Frozen In The Middle Waffle Fries |
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 A Little Peculiar But Not Bad |
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| D | C | C | B | F | D | ||
| Dip | Fries & Grits | ||||||
