Royal House
Where? Royal House (French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America) Map Menu
When? Thursday December 26, 2019
Who? Me
Food Style? New Orleans Seafood
I passed by this very busy place on the way home last night and the $9 half dozen fresh oysters piqued my interest, so here I am, going straight for some of that famous Louisiana seafood. No alcohol tonight...for now. Thanks to single diner privilege, I can skip the queue and sit at the bar.
Appetiser
Six fresh Louisiana oysters, shucked to order and served with all the "fixins"
I love fresh oysters. There's something about the natural saltiness that you get when they're raw, and it loses that when you cook them or pile them with cheese and other flavours. These Louisiana ones aren't that salty but they have a great meatiness and savouriness. The only condiment I'll usually add is tobacco or lemon, but this spicy chunky tomato cocktail sauce goes very well with the oysters. Great start!
Mains
Peel-n-eat Gulf Shrimp: jumbo gulf shrimp boiled in Cajun seasoning, with a side of cocktail sauce
What a magnificent aroma of spices, real Cajun style. The shrimp is absolutely delicious by itself, with the butter or with the cocktail sauce. I dive straight in with both hands and ravenously rip apart the shells to get to the meat. It's slightly overcooked but the flavours are spot on, and there's plenty of spice. That cocktail sauce is so good. Even the potato and corn on the cob are impressive.
Dessert
Bananas Foster Cheesecake: Creamy cheesecake scoops topped with warm bananas fosters sauce and a cinnamon graham cookie
Bananas Foster is pretty famous in New Orleans. It was created to help boost sales of this newly imported fruit in the 1950s. While this is just a cheesecake version, I'm hoping the flavours of smoky rum and cinnamon will come through.
It's...deconstructed and not what I was expecting. The cinnamon is definitely there, and so is that lovely rum taste. The filling - the two scoops of cheesecake - are extremely small in comparison to that biscuit base, and that's not how a cheesecake should be. There's a few banana slices on the plate and the filling does have a nice banana flavour, but I'm hoping the real one is much better than this.
Oh, the cheesecake is free because it took so long. Sweet!
Posted by Jeremy at 9:26pm on Friday January 3, 2020 :: 0 comments :: 