The website for Susan Spicer's restaurant states: "Our restaurant gives you New Orleans, our menu gives you the world." There's a split of opinion about this concept - and a menu that ranges from a smoked salmon beignet to a Niman Ranch pork chop with crispy polenta and roasted red-pepper relish. Visitors feel "There isn't enough local flavor to the food." But residents who get to eat Creole and Cajun cooking on a daily basis find Spicer's cuisine "an inventive infusion of modern techniques and influence rooted in the classics." There's garden seating in nice weather, and the odds of celebrity-spotting here are among the highest in the city.