The Food Report, Part II

My colleague Sid Chadda told me before the conference that I had to make it to Cafe du Monde for coffee and beignets. Of course, I had no idea what a beignet was. Now I know.

That’s a mountain of powdered sugar you see there on top of that fried “doughnut.” Very delicious.

I had the best steak of my life tonight at Dickie Brennan’s Steak House. It was an “8-oz filet served with creamed spinach and Pontalba potatoes, topped with masa flash fried Louisiana oysters and finished with béarnaise sauce.” Now I’m not a big oyster guy so they put some big Gulf shrimp on there instead. It was a melt in your mouth experience to say the least.