cant miss menu items at Restaurant August?

Get this:

breaded speckled trout Pontchartrain - jumbo lump crab, wild mushrooms, and sauce hollandaise

Best seafood dish I've ever had.

my favorites are the oyster app, the trout Pontchartrain and the banana pudding. hell of a meal right there. the crab meat/beet salad is alright but I like the one at Bistro Daisy better.

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Get the tasting menu...no idea what's currently on it, but you can't go wrong with it.

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here's my review of the five-course tasting menu from last time I went (mid-March). I didn't order it but I tasted everything:

- Louisiana crawfish tails and house cured ham, blood orange, grilled "shallot" and taggiasche olives ... thought it sounded like a bit of a heavy start to a meal but the portion size was just write and the flavors created by combining these elements were very interesting and quite delicious.

- handmade tagliatelle pasta w/ truffle cured yard egg and Progress Dairy butter ... by far the worst dish of the evening. couldn't quite figure out why exactly this didn't work - perhaps too many truffles were the culprit - but it was on the edge of being inedible. the "cured" aka raw egg yolk was not pleasing at all. entire dish just did not work.

- gulf yellowfin tuna w/ Gold Rush apple, heirloom beets, fennel, mustard (med rare - per the kitchen) ... it is amazing how flavors change as meat cooks more. the waiter told us the tuna and the steak were both served medium rare. this piece of tuna came out a little on the rare side but had some spots where it was cooked to the right temperature, and those bites, when taken with a little of everything on the plate, were very balanced and deep/rich in flavor. absolutely delicious combinations.

- slow roasted strip loin of Two Run Farms beef (med rare - per the kitchen) ... eh, not bad, not great. seasoned and cooked well, but didn't wow me.

- "affogato" espresso, dulce de leche and milk sorbet ... had a tiny taste. was good but I'm not a big fan of dark chocolate/coffee flavor profile.

I'm actually eating there this weekend. I'm thinking about the tasting menu too, but it all depends on what's on it.

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cant miss menu items at Restaurant August?

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The whole menu is can't miss. Look at it, find something that appeals to you, and order that.

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my favorites are the oyster app

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I only eat oysters in restaurants that contain the letter R.