Turquoise and red frames decorate NOLA's walls with colorful borders as abstract as the artwork they house—all funky points and angles, as if they themselves were melted over the Cajun grill’s red-hot fire. In the kitchen, chefs soak pickles and onion rings in buttermilk before tossing them into fryers and arranging them around cool-ranch dipping sauces. Diners scoop up charbroiled oysters on the half shell and wrangle with poor boys loaded with crayfish and shrimp at glossy wooden tables spread throughout the laid-back dining room. Inside, guests can watch games on flat-screen TVs hanging from the ceiling, and on the outside balcony, they can recite soliloquies from Romeo and Juliet.