Charmant Nola New Orleans

Here’s your Monday antidote:

The Coolinary menu at Charmant is fantastic in culinary wow factor and value and on Monday (which, turns out, is today), the restaurant does a $5 martini special all day with a whole menu of martini possibilities.

We did this last Monday, and it’s been on my mind ever since.

“The gorgeous Borges” is their classic martini.

Don’t miss dishes:

Summer tomato salad with melon consomé

Lamb meatballs in a flavorful gravy

Shishito peppers with trout roe

A double cut pork chop, thick as a Victorian novel and easier to get through, perfectly cooked, abetted by a summer harvest of okra and corn and mushrooms.

Cheese plate for dessert with peanut biscotti.

Lots across three courses, $47.

If you haven’t tried this place, yet, this is your sign. Less

What is @charmantnola , the new spot in the former MoPho?

Is it a new brunch spot near City Park?

A wine bar at a crossroads between neighborhoods that might tempt a late afternoon stop off?

A casually elegant bistro for impromptu date nights?

It is all these things, and through each phase, this versatile day-to-night spot speaks softly while overdelivering in technique, flavor and style.

Don’t miss the Brussels sprouts (which I say almost never, but certainly do here)

The PhoMo (clever name) blending grillades and grits with pho (rice grits, star anise-braised short rib, perfect egg)

The pork chop loin with a great cook on it, and morita chile to light it up

Cured trout and avocado toast, layered and complex on the toasty-to-fresh-bright bite

A goat cheese, duck confit, frisee combination that sounds like a salad but is really a platter of delicious things to mix together

Link in my bio has the full read on Charmant

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