Coquette New Orleans

A Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a great New Year’s Day!

On New Year’s Eve, Matto, his family, and I went to Coquette (www.coquette-nola.com) on Magazine Street.

My boss recommended this place.  It is one of his favorite restaurants in New Orleans.

On New Year’s Eve, Coquette had a five-course menu for this special night.

Here is the list of food that I had…….

1.     Salad of local vegetables, navel orange, cashew

2.     Sweet potato gnocchi, city ham, sorghum brown butter

3.     Triggerfish, parmesan, quinoa, English peas

4.     Mississippi lamb crepinette, barley, pickled peppers, baby turnips

5.     Meyer lemon tart, beet meringue, house-made yogurt

I apologize for the low quality pictures.  I had my camera with me, but I left the memory card at home…….Stupid me!!!

So I had to use my cell phone to take the pictures. The lighting in the restaurant was low, so that didn’t help much.

In addition to the dishes above, they also served a small appetizer, a mini biscuit, and a bite-size corn bread before the meal, a strawberry jelly shot before dessert, and a citrus-flavored meringue lollipop after dessert.

In this blog, I decided to grade the food and experience out of a “10 Moshi” scale.

If the food and experience are amazing, it will be a 10-Moshi.

If the food and experience are really bad, it will be a 1-Moshi.

My experience at Coquette was a 9-Moshi!!!!

I liked the location.  The restaurant was easy to access and parking was easy to find.

The atmosphere of the restaurant was simple and neat.  I liked the décor.

Most importantly the food was absolutely amazing!!!!!

All the vegetable used at this restaurant was purchased from local farmers in Louisiana.

Starting from salad to dessert, it was really hard for me to choose my least favorite dish.

If I have to say one thing that I didn’t like at Coquette, it would be that stuff wasn’t organized at the beginning. We were the first guests to arrive at the restaurant.  Although we had a reservation for six, they had to set a table for us because they only had tables for two or four.  They had a special menu for New Year’s Eve, and they didn’t have menu printed and ready when we got there. It took a bit of time before we got a menu in hand.

However, they soon caught up and the service went smoothly from then on.

Overall, this was a nice restaurant.

I will definitely go back!