: a dessert of bananas flamed (as with rum) and served with ice cream
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Breakfast features chorizo biscuit sandwiches ($11), shakshuka ($13) and bananas Foster crepes ($12), along with plain, chocolate and almond croissants on Sundays.
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Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 16 Jan. 2025
Our choice today is — drumroll, please … bananas Foster.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 4 Jan. 2022
Our choice today is bananas Foster.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 31 Jan. 2023
For instance, the Court of Two Sisters (four courses $40), best known for its buffet before the pandemic, is highlighting a la carte Creole dishes like turtle soup, crabmeat gratin and bananas Foster.
—Ian McNulty | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 25 Nov. 2020
At El Jibarazo they are fried and glazed like starchier versions of bananas Foster ($4).
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Dec. 2021
Part of its draw, said Monterey’s chef, James Tracey, is that flambéing bananas Foster at a table-side cart evokes a kind of old-school dazzle.
—Melissa Clark, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
Our choice today is bananas Foster, a sweet start to the day.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 13 July 2022
Dress up and chow down on sherry-splashed snapping turtle soup; Gulf fish borgne swimming with lump crab, Louisiana oysters and local shrimp in Creole butter; Sazerac cocktails; and the show-stopping, tableside flambéed bananas Foster dessert.
—Brooke Viggiano, Chron, 24 Mar. 2022
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Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 16 Jan. 2025
Our choice today is — drumroll, please … bananas Foster.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 4 Jan. 2022
Our choice today is bananas Foster.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 31 Jan. 2023
For instance, the Court of Two Sisters (four courses $40), best known for its buffet before the pandemic, is highlighting a la carte Creole dishes like turtle soup, crabmeat gratin and bananas Foster.
—Ian McNulty | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 25 Nov. 2020
At El Jibarazo they are fried and glazed like starchier versions of bananas Foster ($4).
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Dec. 2021
Part of its draw, said Monterey’s chef, James Tracey, is that flambéing bananas Foster at a table-side cart evokes a kind of old-school dazzle.
—Melissa Clark, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
Our choice today is bananas Foster, a sweet start to the day.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 13 July 2022
Dress up and chow down on sherry-splashed snapping turtle soup; Gulf fish borgne swimming with lump crab, Louisiana oysters and local shrimp in Creole butter; Sazerac cocktails; and the show-stopping, tableside flambéed bananas Foster dessert.
—Brooke Viggiano, Chron, 24 Mar. 2022
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“Bananas Foster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bananas%20Foster. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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