Elizabeth’s is the little corner neighborhood restaurant that attracts diners from all over town.:
Elizabeth's Restaurant Review: Years ago, Elizabeth’s was best known to a cadre of neighborhood regulars for breakfasts and brunches of praline bacon, grillades and grits, and calas, the old-fashioned Creole rice cakes. But now the dinner menu has made its reputation. Mirliton (known elsewhere as chayote) filled with seafood, and artichokes broiled crisp and topped with manchego compete with...
The average tourist may never get to the Bywater; it's a little out of the way, after all. That's too bad -- they'll miss a true N'Awlins neighbahood, and experiences like Elizabeth's, with "Real Food, Done Real Good," as they say. Like Creole rice calas (sweet rice fritters), a classic breakfast dish that is nearly extinct; the infamous praline bacon, topped with sugar and pecans (aka "pork...
Elizabeth's kicks a@s in the Southern cooking department. Dishes like praline bacon and fried chicken livers in pepper sauce may not make the Martha Stewart cut, but it's honest Southern cooking at a fair price. The staff and ambiance have a similarly honest, hippy appeal. Once folks realize the Bywater isn't a DMZ anymore, it'll become a tourist favorite.
Homey joint that delivers on its promise of ""good food done real good."":
The Scene
A simple white-frame building in the Bywater, Elizabeth's doesn't look like much from the outside; but inside, a hard-working kitchen cooks up huge portions to be enjoyed in the...