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of crab and served with toasted crostini. The broiled crab claws served in a Parmesan herb and garlic butter sauce are fabulous. While we didn’t want to fill up too early, we certainly were not above dipping the bread in the delicious garlic butter sauce.
There are also plump and flavorful oysters on the half shell and you can get the oysters chargrilled with Blue Bayou butter. In the mood for gumbo? You won’t want to miss Blue Bayou’s seafood gumbo, or ask your server about the nightly soup selection.
Prime beef is used for the rib eye and New York strip, giving the meat a rich, buttery taste. Steaks, including the filet mignon (8 ounce and 12 ounce), are cooked to order, tender and full of flavor. They are delicious by themselves, or, for an extra
bit of wow, add a topping such as Bearnaise sauce, Cabernet demi-glace, bleu cheese, caramelized onions, mushrooms and jumbo shrimp or lump crab.
Popular with diners is the
rack of lamb — four pepper-
crusted lamb chops with a
cherry-port demi-glace served
with Danish bleu cheese
whipped potatoes. The
seasoned meat on the chops
is melt-in-your-mouth good.
Other featured entrées include
fried shrimp and fried oysters,
pan-seared fresh catch, and
coq au vin, a French dish of
chicken simmered in a bacon and red wine demi-glace with tasso. The dish comes with Brabant potatoes and vegetables.
Seafood lovers will want to dive in to the Bayou scampi. This flavorful dish is overflowing with the tastes of jumbo lump crab, crawfish and blackened jumbo shrimp tossed with roasted peppers, mushrooms and bourbon-caramelized onions all sitting
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(Clockwise from top left) The rack of lamb at Blue Bayou Bar & Grill features four pepper-crusted chops with a side of Danish bleu cheese whipped potatoes; Bayou scampi has plenty of jumbo shrimp, crawfish and lump crab with vegetables in a Cajun butter sauce; cooked-to- order prime ribeye; oysters on the half shell; hot bread is served with imported olive oil and garlic paste.
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