It's been decades since I was there with a friend ...

It's been decades since I was there with a friend on vacation. We stopped to make a reservation for dinner. We'd been recommended to the restaurant by my friend's boss. My friend dropped me off to make the reservation for dinner. We were casually dressed because it was September and very hot and humid and we had been sightseeing. I made the reservation for dinner for that evening. As I concluded the reservation, I was informed that we would have to "dress" for dinner. The look and tone were less than gracious...it was insulting. I let it go and went back to find my friend. We had appropriate clothing with us. We had an 8:30 p.m. reservation. We arrived promptly for our reservation and checked in. We were advised there would be a delay in getting seated and told we could wait in the cocktail bar. We waited and waited and finally we were shown to our table...outside in the garden...at the far, far, far end of the garden. This was a very warm, very humid evening and we were attired in dresses, hosiery, and heels being shoved to the back end of hell...all alone to perch on wobbly garden chairs. I kept feeling as though bugs were crawling on me...nylon hose "crawls" in humidity and heat. Well, my friend decided we should make the best of it. We ordered dinner. I don't recall what I ate. All I recall was that I was miserablely uncomfortable. Frankly, the food was pedestrian and definitely forgettable...the price wasn't. I was born and raised in New York and New Jersey. I worked on Park Avenue and 46th Street. I ate at some really great restaurants in the city. The tri-state area has some of the best food in the country. I had breakfast at Brennan's in New Orleans. I was not impressed with either restaurant. Hopefully, if I were to go back to New Orleans today and dine again at these two restaurants, I would be happily surprised with better food and better treatment. It would be nice to see what the INSIDE of the Commander's Palace looks like...where the elite get to eat instead of in the garden...with the bugs, heat and humidity. I'm not holding my breath. It's been DECADES since I was there and I'm still very ANGRY with the less than stellar treatment we received.