Draw a day-trip diameter around New Orleans , and the range of places where you can feel that desired release from the norm and still be back home the same night, is varied but not exactly endless.

So it was a joy to discover how the new restaurant Saint Claire has created a new one that’s actually within the city limits.

Saint Claire will serve you a lovely dinner, in the vein of French country cooking filtered through Louisiana. It also an enchanting destination, thanks to a combination of an old house with a new glow-up, the expansive, oak-laden grounds around it and the warmth of hospitality.

People go on retreats for the kind restorative feeling I took away from an early Friday dinner around sunset.

A countryside idyll

Saint Claire is in Algiers, downriver from the more scen

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