Fine dining in New Orleans - VF

"Emeril" is a well-known chef here in the US who owns a number of fine-dining restaurants and has a show on cable TV. He is originally from here in the South where we are visiting and so we thought we would take up the opportunity and visit for dinner!

One night we went to "Delmonico" which is portrayed as as steakhouse, but is not exactly what I thought a steakhouse would be (it has a strict dress-code and starched linen)! Jamie did have a steak however and I had fish. We took two of Jamie's residents (registrars in NZ-speak) and treated them seeing as they are here for the week presenting posters at the conference. You can see the dinner menu here....
http://www.emerils.com/restaurants/delmonico/dinner.htm

Last night we went to the main Emerils restaurant. The food was particularly delicious. http://www.emerils.com/restaurants/emerils/dinner.htm I had the tuna (cooked through though, not just seared) and Jamie had another steak! One interesting thing about the restaurant is that they colour-coordinate the serviettes (napkins here in the US) so if you are wearing black (as I was of course on both occasions) you get a black one and if you are wearing a lighter colour clothing, you get a standard white one. (All linen of course)