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Palace Café Restaurant Review:

About the restaurant: Historic buildings never die in New Orleans --- instead they often become fine dining restaurants. This one, located in an elegant downtown building that once housed a piano company, is Dickie Brennan's double-level Palace Café. The interior finishes include an eyeful of drugstore-tile floors, burnished-wood banquettes and a central, graceful staircase spiraling toward the second floor, where a spectacular rum bar and lounge has its own kitchen, offering charcuterie and small plates.

Food & Drinks: Try the crabmeat cheesecake, a signature starter. House specialties include an andouille-crusted Gulf fish and the shrimp Tchefuncte, a simple preparation of plain ingredients: shrimp, whole button mushrooms, meunière sauce and popcorn rice. But the whole is much greater than a sum of its parts, a typical Creole characteristic. White chocolate bread pudding is found all over town, but this is the home of the original (as well as the best).