IMG_1675

Get Brunchfaced: Messina’s brings Reveillon dinner to brunch

by Mary Staes | December 10, 2018

Reveillon dinners are making a comeback across the city, but the bougier-than-brunch option can a little daunting for a first-timer. Most Réveillon options come with 4-plus courses, and aren’t cheap, averaging $40-$60 per person.

Messina’s Runway Cafe makes it a little easier to stomach on diners (and their wallets), with an abbreviated B’Réveillon 3-course menu at $35.

The first course consists of either a mixed salad of kale, endive and baby arugula with dried cranberries and candied pecans topped with a Champagne vinaigrette or corn and crab bisque.

I’m not a salad kind of girl.

The corn and crab bisque was thick and creamy, with lump crabmeat overflowing from the top of the soup. Every👏single👏bite👏had👏crabmeat.

For the main course, you can pick between three options: beef debris eggs Benedict on a buttermilk biscuit with Brabant potatoes, pan-seared Gulf fish topped with a Creole seafood sauce and served with sauteed vegetables or beef grillades served with creamy cheese grits and a buttermilk biscuit.

The servings here are already healthy, but the biscuits are amazing. They’re probably the size of a grown man’s fist and they’re thick enough to sop up any sauce you’ve got on the plate without crumbling to bits.

Most restaurants I’ve been to that serve grillades and grits use a red, tomato-based sauce. However, Chef Leon West uses a brown mushroom sauce and smoked gouda in his grits which are always creamy. The grits taste so good-a (yes, that was a pun) that you probably don’t need to mix the sauce in, but when you do, it’s an intense mash-up of flavors that can only be described as heavenly.

The final dessert course is eggnog creme brulee, and it comes out with a browned sugar crust that’s so much fun to crack. Once you get past the top, there’s smooth custard, that’s not overly sweet. When you mix the smoothness with the crunch of the crust, the opposite textures work beautifully together.

The B’Réveillon menu is available at Messina’s Runway Cafe every Saturday and Sunday in December. Click here for the full menu.

Click here to find out more restaurants across the city offering Reveillon dinner menus.

Messina's Runway Cafe
$$$$
Getting there
New Orleans Lakefront Airport, Terminal, 6001 Stars and Stripes Blvd Ste. 3, New Orleans, LA 70126, USA
Hours
Mon Closed
Tue-Sun 8 AM – 3 PM
More Info

Stream original series on the Very Local app

What is Very Local?

Very Local is your best source for shows about local communities, bringing you 24/7 access to news from your trusted local news source, weather updates, and more. The Very Local app also brings you fresh, untold stories from your city and communities like yours, with exclusive original shows and local stories specific to where you live. Get the channel to stream Very Local free on Roku or Amazon Fire TV.

Follow Very Local on Facebook and @VeryLocal on Instagram for more

Mary Staes

Mary Staes

Mary Staes is Digital Content Lead for Very Local. She works with our freelancers and crafts content for our social media platforms and website. Before Very Local, she worked with CBS affiliate WWL-TV as a web producer and weekend assignment editor for about 4 years. She has also handled broadcast coverage for 160 Marine Reserve training facilities while she served as an active duty Marine. As a native New Orleanian, she takes being "very local" to heart. She loves being intertwined with the culture and figuring out how there are less than two degrees of separation between us all, whether we're natives or not.

Download the Very Local app to stream all of the Very Local original series for FREE!

Download the Very Local app to stream all of the Very Local original series for FREE!