A changing menu can offer almond shrimp cakes, handmade vegetarian ravioli, and sweet and spicy rabbit.

Sample the Thai crab and shrimp cake with papaya, lime and aioli radish salad ($15).

But the lunch and late-night menus offer simpler fare, such as crawfish enchiladas ($7.50) and pan-fried shrimp cakes ($6.75).

A better choice is Leshko's one wild card, shrimp cakes ($12.95) with remoulade sauce, a welcome shift from crab cakes.

Ribbons of ginger and wasabi ringed a chunky crab and shrimp cake under a pile of Asian slaw.

The shrimp cakes taste wonderful and with a side dish of potatoes and brussels sprouts with oil and vinegar, the meal is complete.

Among the appetizers, the flavor-packed shrimp cakes, Indian first cousins of crab cakes, head the list.

This sauce is most often served over turkey at weddings, birthdays and baptisms, or at Christmas with romero over shrimp cakes.

That disappointment was a duet of bready crab and shrimp cakes that had a strong taste.

Among the dishes he has introduced at Jackson Square is rock shrimp cakes with spicy mango vinaigrette sauce cooked with pineapple.