Bon Ton is an ultra casual Cajun-Vietnamese bar and restaurant with a glow-up Instagram filter. This is a spot to feel comfortable getting down and dirty, cracking crab legs with your teeth, and eating broth-soaked potatoes with bare hands. But then you'll peep the "Fancy Service" neon sign that casts a rosy hue over the whole restaurant and wonder if you missed a memo. Especially since the Posh and Becks look-alikes next to you happen to be sipping sazeracs and eating charbroiled oysters with miniature forks. But then you'll opt to hold the bowl to your mouth and chug down the remaining seafood boil broth, and somehow that feels just right too.

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