TUNA

The lunch menu at Steve's Diner offers an open-faced classic tuna melt and blackened tuna salad with sesame seeds, cucumber, avocado and wasabi dressing. When entertaining a lunch date on the patio of Café Rani, the classic tuna nicoise includes pepper-crusted tuna steak over greens with asparagus and new potatoes. Little Tokyo of Mandeville has a Burning Man Roll — sesame spicy tuna on the inside; pepper tuna, avocado, green onion and hot sauce on the outside. Tuna Steak Neptune can be found at MedUSA — the plate features a tuna steak with spinach, tomato and a garlic butter sauce. Oceana Grill's grilled tuna "La Boheme" places barbeque shrimp on top of the tuna. The Asian tuna salad at Zea presents seared rare sashimi tuna, crispy noodles, almonds and a peanut vinaigrette. Étoile Restaurant sears their sesame tuna rare with bok choy, pickled ginger, sweet-chili and honey vinaigrette. Grilled yellow fin tuna awaits at Go-Go Gourmet. The yellowfin Two Ways at Dominque's offers sashimi tuna stacked with pineapple chips and a tuna empanada. Tuna carpaccio, a sushi grade piece of tuna flattened and seasoned delicately with lemon juice, oil and salt, whets the appetite at Meauxbar Bistro. Avocado puree separates a couple of tuna tartare versions in the Tuna Two Ways at Jackson in the lower Garden District. The seared ahi tuna entree from Russell's Marina Grill comes in a light sweet-and-spicy plum sauce. Parran's Po-Boys of Metairie offers a po-boy of marinated and grilled yellowfin tuna.