BEEF

Beef does some heavy lifting on both traditional and creative menus. The shepard's pie from Vic's Kangaroo Café combines ground beef with veggies in a red wine gravy and then tops them with garlic mashed potatoes and cheese. A traditional beef pot roast is one of the Wednesday specials from Café Reconcile. The ropa vieja (shredded beef) at Churros Café comes with sides of white rice and black beans. Lager's pub grub features Mom's Pot Roast, a Southern-style, slow-cooked roast served over garlic mashed potatoes. The 16-ounce prime rib at The Restaurant on board the Treasure Chest is served with a choice of fries or baked potato. Go-Go Gourmet has a grilled filet mignon sandwich, which comes with a horseradish and Dijon cream sauce on a choice of sourdough, multi-grain or ciabatta bread.

Inside K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen you'll find blackened beef tenders with a debris sauce, which features twin filet mignon cuts seasoned and blackened in a cast-iron skillet. Felix's Uptown offers a blue cheese-topped eight-ounce cut of filet mignon, served with sautéed baby spinach and braised potatoes. Café DiBlasi's Bracoloni is a half-pound steak stuffed with prosciutto, mozzarella and boiled egg, that's rolled, pan seared and simmered in tomato sauce. At Stanley, chef Scott Boswell puts a unique twist on the po-boy with his Korean barbecue beef po-boy with kimchee, a Korean version of pickled and fermented cabbage. Beef brisket plates from Bywater Bar-B-Que come with a housemade sauce, your choice of two sides and bread, including the popular jalapeno cornbread. In Mid-City, Lafitte BBQ offers beef brisket with their homemade sauce. The beef kabob from Salt & Pepper Restaurant in the French Quarter is flavored with cilantro, garlic, chiles and three types of pepper. At Christina's Empress of China, one of the house specials is the orange beef: tender slices of flash-fried beef cooked with orange peels in a sweet and peppery sauce. The teriyaki beef dinner at Ninja starts with ribeye in a teriyaki sauce and somes with miso soup, a house salad and rice. The Latin flavors from the Country Flame include empanadas, featuring spicy ground beef stuffed in a light, crispy dough. Besides sushi, Mikimoto serves a beef teriyaki and tempura combo.