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excellent meal at willa jean

Posted on 1/30/17 at 10:18 am
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
Member since Oct 2009
50854 posts
Posted on 1/30/17 at 10:18 am
after the pels game last night, wife and i were hungry so we walked down to willa jean for the first time. it wasnt packed to the gills, which is what has stopped us from trying it before

i had a beer and the wife a well made cocktail.
we started with a really good pimento cheese appetizer, with some smoked ham, crackers and pickled veggies. the pimento cheese was light and well seasoned, not dense at all. this was very good

wife got a kale caesar salad with roasted cauliflower, i got a braised rabbit pasta with roasted veggies and wild mushrooms. the rabbit dish was incredible, and contrasted well with bites of her salad. the two dishes together worked perfectly. really fine eats

we had a nother round of drinks, coffee, and split a satsuma creamcicle dessert with carrot sorbet...excellent

the server was in a great mood, and we enjoyed the banter back and forth. she earned a generous tip

one of the better meals ive had in a while, we'll be back to try more stuff
Posted by Clint Torres
Member since Oct 2011
2853 posts
Posted on 1/30/17 at 10:20 am to
It's usually very easy to get in there in the evening. Weekend mornings are an entirely different story.

It's interesting that the amount of baked goods for sale up front have been decreasing steadily.
Posted by hungryone
river parishes
Member since Sep 2010
11987 posts
Posted on 1/30/17 at 10:28 am to
Re: baked goods in the front case, I went in just after it opened and got sticker shock on the pastries (and I'm not averse to paying silly prices for very well made items). Went back a couple months later, and the prices of the same items had decreased a bit (I'm specifically recalling a pistachio croissant, though there were others). On a recent visit, everything in the case seemed tired. So it's clearly becoming a restaurant, not really a retail bakery.

Meanwhile, La Boulangerie is getting a little better and Gracious is opening a St Charles Avenue location.
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
151591 posts
Posted on 1/30/17 at 10:29 am to
Willa Jean's is a gem right there.

When I lived in the CBD it was on my monthly rotation for sure.

Grilled cheese and tomato basil

Goat cheese and grilled figs
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
Member since Oct 2009
50854 posts
Posted on 1/30/17 at 10:31 am to
i honestly did not know it was a bakery...
i did grab a homemade loaf of country bread, the waitress ran it thru the slicer for me, 4 bucks

its pretty good bread
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