SEAFOOD PLATTER

Food! Glorious food! Gloriously fried! At the Corner Café in Metairie, be sure to bring a friend or a doubly-big appetite. The seafood platter for two comes with two cups of gumbo, stuffed jalapenos, and hush puppies along with a mountain of fried shrimp, oysters, soft shell crab and popcorn shrimp. In the French Quarter, the Déjˆ Vu Bar and Restaurant serves one pound of seafood (shrimp, oysters, crawfish, and catfish) as well as French fries and bread. Around the corner on Bourbon Street, Desire Oyster Bar's Seafood Platter features the usual suspects (shrimp, oysters, catfish) plus soft shell crab, homemade hush puppies and baked potato. Mulate's takes it even further with its Cajun Seafood Platter — crawfish tails, shrimp, catfish, oysters and frog legs. It also includes a stuffed crab, jambalaya and French fries. At the Ponchartrain Point Café, the seafood platter comes with an array of shrimp, oysters, catfish strips and stuffed crab. In Kenner, stop by Kenner Seafood for eat-in or take-out (fresh fish also available). Upgrade the seafood platter with frog legs or soft shell crab. It's impossible to pass on the soft-shell crab at Galley Seafood Restaurant. The fried platter combines the crab with catfish, shrimp, oysters plus a house salad and side dish. At the Dry Dock Cafe, the seafood platter arrives with shrimp, oysters and catfish, plus fries, coleslaw and tartar sauce. At Deannie's the giant seafood platter offers enough shrimp, catfish, oysters, soft shell crabs and crawfish balls to feed four people. The seafood plate at Café Maspero includes catfish, shrimp, oysters and calamari and is served with fries and a salad. Common Grounds' seafood plate gives you a choice of a two- or three-combo with shrimp, oysters and catfish and comes with a side salad, French fries and toast.