You’ll need to assemble your own jazz band or find a playlist on Spotify to do justice to a Commander’s Palace dinner at home, especially for Mother’s Day. For the first time, the legendary New Orleans restaurant, in business since 1893, is serving a limited menu for delivery, shipped frozen and nationwide through Goldbelly. The menu offers a three-course dinner for two ($179) or four ($299), with turtle soup, garlic bread, sweet and spicy quail, and pecan pie. À la carte options, serving two or four, are also available. Though the soup just takes a reheat once it’s thawed, for the quail you’ll have to channel your inner Paul Prudhomme and Emeril Lagasse — the birds come raw with the ingredients and instructions for stuffing, glazing and roasting them. All the items in the package can be refrigerated for a couple of days, so you have wiggle room in terms of timing. They send an entire pecan pie regardless of the order. There is a limited number of orders filled each day, and delivery is usually about two days from when the order is placed.
Commander’s Palace meals, goldbelly.com/commanders-palace.
