BATON ROUGE — The tables are dressed in crisp, white linen. Many of the signature dishes that made Galatoire's restaurant an institution on New Orleans' Bourbon Street — the Oysters Rockefeller, the Salad Maison, the Trout Amandine — are on the menu.
But outside this Galatoire's, there's no bawdy street scene. Instead, Galatoire's Bistro — opened hastily in late 2005 after the flooding from Hurricane Katrina forced the Bourbon Street location to close for several months — is the unlikely anchor of a shopping center in suburban Baton Rouge.
It's a taste of New Orleans wrapped in suburban