With high-roller Super Bowl crowds in town, Commander’s Palace will auction the Feb. 2 seating at the corner table in its Garden Room to benefit charity. Photo: Commander’s Palace
If you call now, the odds are you can still land a table at a downtown restaurant for the weekend of Feb. 3. But every minute you wait, you’re rolling the dice.
Reservations at top-flight New Orleans restaurants on Super Bowl weekend are going as fast as game tickets. Several restaurants have been booked for months with private parties on Feb. 1-2, but as of right now a few tables are still up for grabs at places like Commander’s Palace (for tables for four or less), Emeril Lagasse’s restaurants, Café Adelaide and other eateries up and down the price scale around town.
This week:
Feb. 2 –The Taste of the NFL, the league’s swanky Super Bowl food fest benefiting anti-hungry programs around the country, takes over Hall J of the Morial Convention Center, and fills it with dishes by chefs from NFL cities, including Commander’s Palace’s Tory McPhail, who acts as this year’s co-host of the event with former New Orleans Saint Morten Andersen.
The Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board is a co-sponsor, so local shrimp, crabs, oysters and fish will get top billing in dishes such as Baltimore chef Nancy Longo of Pierpoint Restaurant’s “crispy Louisiana blue crab gyoza with lemongrass oyster stew and crispy leeks,” San Francisco chef David Seavey of North Beach Bistro’s “Louisiana shrimp over stone-milled grits with black hog farm sausage,” and McPhail’s “grilled Louisiana crawfish with Hennessey Cognac-flamed winter mushrooms, Creole cream cheese gnocchi, double truffles and spicy crawfish boil cream.” Celebrity sighting potential: Travel Channel’s “Bizarre Foods” host Andrew Zimmern. Tickets: $600 per person,www.tasteofthenfl.com.
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