Cuisine:

• American
• Cajun
• Creole
• Coffee Houses

Bon Ton Café Description:
Cajun cooking now abounds throughout New Orleans, but when the Bon Ton Café opened in the 1950s, it offered New Orleans diners fluent in Creole cuisine some of their first tastes of true Cajun cooking. Today the place seems a bit old-fashioned, yet charming, with its waitresses in matronly aprons and a décor retaining its historic ambience from having been built in 1945. It also keeps a fairly low profile despite its Central Business District location, and at lunch most of the regular patrons are local business people. That is not surprising, especially when crawfish season rolls around. The crawfish dinner offers a four-dish sampler of specialties, including crawfish etouffée, jambalaya, crawfish omelet and a chef's selection. The dark crawfish bisque is done the authentic way, with stuffed crawfish heads. The crab meat au gratin may be overwhelming even as an appetizer, but the broiled redfish Bon Ton makes a fine entrée. The assertive sweetness of the bread pudding fits well with the waitstaff's amiability. Let them talk you into a Rum Ramsey Cocktail, a rum sour that'll knock you out of your seat.


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