Charles Avenue for a classic Southern porch setting, or Cure in Uptown to experience one of New Orleans’s original craft cocktail destinations. As for the hottest spots to imbibe? Try cocktail havens like Jewel of the South, Manolito, or Fives in the French Quarter, Columns on St. To get a feel for neighborhood bars, look no further than Kermit Ruffins’s Mother-in-Law Lounge, R Bar in the Marigny, or Pal’s Lounge in Mid City. Essential BarsĮnjoy cocktails at the handsome Hermes bar at Antoine’s restaurant or at Arnaud’s James Beard Award-winning French 75, both longtime classics on Eater’s essential bars map. For a further taste of New Orleans history, have a meal at one of these classic Creole restaurants. Here’s a guide to the city’s most iconic dishes and where to get them, and here are the 25 classic restaurants we think every New Orleanian needs to experience at some point. Po’ boys, red beans and rice, sno-balls, beignets, and gumbo help define the city many are also central to a restaurant’s identity and history, like turtle soup at Commander’s or muffulettas at Central Grocery. Perhaps more than anywhere else, New Orleans is a city filled with iconic dishes. Josh Brasted/Eater NOLA Iconic Dishes and Restaurants Wondering where to drink right now? Fives is an elegant new cocktail and oyster bar in the French Quarter that has quickly become one of the city’s top destinations, and Justini’s in New Orleans’s Bywater neighborhood is a beautiful new bar that pays homage to the city’s legendary Black woman bar founders.Ĭreole gumbo from Dooky Chase Restaurant. ![]() Francolini’s is serving some of the best new sandwiches to hit New Orleans since the invention of the po’ boy, and the reopening of Emeril’s, Emeril Lagasse’s flagship restaurant, and its new wine bar is big news. Hungry Eyes is an ’80s-themed dinner and drinks restaurant from the team behind breakfast and brunch destinations Molly’s Rise and Shine and Turkey and the Wolf and Sun Chong in the French Quarter, a design-driven French Quarter stunner from restaurateur Larry Morrow continues to captivate. Randy Schmidt/Eater NOLA Hottest Restaurants and BarsĪmong the hottest of the hot right now is LUFU NOLA, a modern Indian pop-up-turned-restaurant in the CBD. ![]() Serigne Mbaye’s Dakar NOLA, now a year old, is one of New Orleans’s most celebrated restaurants for connecting Senegambia and New Orleans through food, and Mamou is a French Quarter standout showcasing the best in modern French cuisine.Īrtichokes on the half shell from Hungry Eyes. ![]() For a day’s worth of knockout dining, start with breakfast at Brennan’s (fancy) or Molly’s Rise and Shine (casual) a lunch of fried chicken and red beans at Dooky Chase’s and dinner at Brigsten’s for the best of modern Creole cuisine in a charming cottage on the Riverbend Mosquito Supper Club for an exploration of Louisiana cuisine in a peaceful setting or Bar Brine for something a bit funkier (and rarer, vegetarian-friendly). Standout RestaurantsĮater New Orleans’s list of standouts includes a number of exceptional restaurants in most of the city’s neighborhoods. ![]() Here, Eater narrows the field to highlight some of the very best destinations in the area. Where to Start on Eater New Orleans's Key MapsĮater New Orleans maintains frequently updated guides to everything from where to find sno-balls to specific dishes like yak-a-mein - an iconic New Orleans noodle soup and hangover cure.
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