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Felix’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar was once part of group of neighboring oyster bars at the intersection of Bourbon and Iberville streets in the French Quarter, including Acme Oyster House right across the street. In 2017, Felix’s extended their Iberville establishment, linking it with a space on Bourbon Street that they had previously occupied for over two decades. Today Felix’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar also has locations at the New Orleans Lakefront and in Gulfport, Mississippi, and Pensacola, Florida. Chargrilled oysters are topped with Parmesan bread crumbs and house-made char butter. The signature chargrilled oyster at Half Shell Oyster House , with locations in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, is topped with a sauce of blended white wine, butter, garlic and herbs, and a generous sprinkling of Parmesan cheese. For their award-winning oysters, they use a New Orleans-style smoky Cajun sauce, topped with a layer of Parmesan cheese.

Several restaurants feature chargrilled oysters, the renowned dish created by Tommy Cvitanovich of Drago’s Restaurant (where they’re called “charbroiled” oysters). Here are a few pearls.

Drago Cvitanovich opened Drago’s in 1969. The restaurant is most famous for its charbroiled oysters, a dish created by Tommy Cvitanovich, Drago’s son. These original charbroiled oysters are bathed in a sauce of garlic, butter and herbs, dusted with a Parmesan and Romano cheese blend,

and grilled in their shells. Drago’s flagship location is in Fat City in Metairie, with additional establishments in New Orleans, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge and Bossier City, Louisiana and in Jackson, Mississippi. Rouses sell Drago’s Butter Garlic Charbroiling Sauce in our Seafood Department.

Acme Oyster House , originally known as Acme Café, opened in the New Orleans French Quarter in 1910. After a fire led to the collapse of the Acme Saloon Building in 1924, Acme Café relocated to Iberville Street, adopting the name Acme Oyster House. Presently, Acme has

Jane’s Seafood and Chinese Restaurant in New Iberia serves raw and chargrilled oysters, plus great Chinese food. Jolie Pearl Oyster Bar in Downtown Baton Rouge is a full-service oyster bar and live music venue serving classic chargrilled oysters, oysters chargrilled with Thai chili sauce

four additional locations beyond the French Quarter: Metairie and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Gulf Shores, Alabama; and Destin, Florida. Chargrilled oysters bathed in an herb butter sauce and topped with a special cheese blend is one of the restaurant’s signature dishes.

Cristiano Ristorante in Houma, Louisiana, serves its chargrilled oysters with smoky roasted red pepper garlic butter.

or lemon pepper butter, as well as oysters barbecued NOLA style with Worcestershire butter sauce made with garlic, rosemary and Tabasco.

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