New Orleans Culinary Experience: Chef Demo and Home Tour Including Lunch or Dinner

Make your way to a historical home in the Lower Garden District where your lesson takes place. Take a seat at the kitchen counter, which curves around the large stove and food prep area.

During the 2.5-hour demonstration, sip a glass of wine as your chef-instructor takes you through the preparation and cooking of four dishes. You get a full sensory experience during the cooking class while leaving the messy prep and working over the hot stove to the chef.

Your instructor intersperses the cooking lesson with tales of local lore and Louisiana history. As you learn the recipes, you also get a window into the cultural forces that have shaped all aspects of New Orleans, including its rich cuisine.

Afterward, tour the 19th-century home with your host while the final touches on your lunch or dinner are completed. Then adjourn to the dining room for a party featuring the dishes that you watched being prepared. Savor the delicious food, fine wine and good company as you linger over the 3- to 4-course meal.

The menu varies according to the season and availability, but dishes may include fresh seafood gumbo, seared salmon salad, crawfish pasta, baked oysters with bacon, Gulf shrimp topped with rémoulade, pecan pie, praline cookies and more. You can take home the recipes at the end of class. 

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Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes (approx.)

Location: New Orleans, Louisiana

Ticket Price: $165.00

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Enjoy generous samplings of the demonstrated items, as well as complimentary coffee, iced tea and beer. At the end of the class, take home the recipes to show off your new skills to your friends and family!

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Duration: 2.5 hours (approx.)

Location:  New Orleans, Louisiana 

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Dinner at the Court of Two Sisters Restaurant

When you come to New Orleans, you simply can't go past a sumptuous Creole dinner at the Court of Two Sisters restaurant. Nestled in the historic French Quarter, you can enjoy the best southern cuisine in New Orleans' largest courtyard. 

Enjoy entrees such as Roasted Half Duck Al'Orange, Corn Fried Des Allemands Catfish and classic desserts including Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce and Chocolate Espresso Torte. 

Additionally, one complimentary glass of house wine, or champagne is included.

Court of Two Sisters History:

It was two Creole sisters and the notions shop they owned on this site that gave The Court of Two Sisters its name. However, 613 Rue Royale has long played a significant role in the history of the French Quarter and old New Orleans. The two sisters, Emma and Bertha Camors, born 1858 and 1860 respectively, belonged to a proud and aristocratic Creole family. Their "rabais", or notions, outfitted many of the city's finest women with formal gowns, lace and perfumes imported from Paris. Marriage, reversals of fortune, widowhood - nothing could separate the sisters. Indeed, as the Picayune was to report, the sisters died within two months of each other in the winter of 1944.

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Duration:  Flexible

Location:  New Orleans, Louisiana

Ticket Price: $55.55