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Restaurants near New Orleans

1. Lufu Nola

Rating: 4.8 (1.3K reviews)

Chefs Sarthak Samantray and Aman Kota spiced up the town for a couple of years with their wildly popular Lufu (for “Let Us Feed U”) pop-up before turning it into this handsome full-time restaurant, where the “you’ll-want-everything” dinner menu avoids the clichés, and there are tandoori salads and “naanwiches” for lunch.

2. Good Catch Thai Urban Bistro

Rating: 4.2 (49 reviews)

A familiar local name is behind this ambitious downtown restaurant: chef Aom Srisuk, the Bangkok native behind Uptown’s popular Pomelo. You can’t help but go big dining here, with seafood-centric specialties like fried whole sea bass, jumbo lump crab curry, and the eye-popping Ocean’s Treasures, a medley of scallops, crab, shrimp, mussels, and calamari in a chile-basil-garlic sauce. Plus, raw bar offerings and the cocktail menu are unexpected highlights.

3. Salon Salon

Rating: 4.5 (1.5K reviews)

This voluptuous Warehouse District cocktail lounge is discreetly located next to the Maison Métier hotel, but the over-the-top interior — tiger-skin-patterned carpets and bar stools, red lacquered walls inset with well-stocked bookshelves, a tangerine-hued ceiling — is joyously bold. The cocktails are stellar, the bar food runs from deviled eggs to caviar, and guests at the hotel have access to a semi-secret private room.

4. Namaste Nola

Rating: 4.2 (102 reviews)

Don’t expect your typical Indian menu at this homey restaurant in the CBD: The owners are from southern India, and while you’ll find a few familiar offerings here, you’ll want to try specialties like sambar wada and blackened goat with coconut.

5. Chophouse New Orleans

Rating: 4.6 (319 reviews)

It’s all about the beef (USDA prime) at this upscale but unfussy steak emporium from the team behind Atlanta stalwarts like Joey D’s and New York Prime — though the seafood and sides are first-rate, too. Pro tip: Save room for the gigantic chocolate cake, enough to serve a table of four or more.

6. Bon Ton Prime Rib

Rating: 4.9 (38 reviews)

Located inside an 1840s-vintage Magazine Street building, this elegant, Cajun-accented establishment is one to put on your Hit List. Whatever you do, don’t skip the star of the menu — a USDA prime rib that’s been aged 40 days and roasted in a crust of salt.

7. Espíritu CBD

Rating: 4.5 (370 reviews)

“Espíritu” is Spanish for “spirit” and the spirit of choice at this jaunty Warehouse District Mexican restaurant is mezcal: More than a hundred mezcals (and Tequilas) are offered, and classic cocktails including the sazerac and the old fashioned are reformulated with mezcal. To eat? Ceviche, tacos, tortas — the real thing, Mexico City-style.

8. District All Day Delicious

Rating: 4.7 (133 reviews)

Here’s cause for celebration: a full-service, all-purpose restaurant from the team behind local institution District Donuts. Look for table service and an expanded menu for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, too, making it a perfect spot to pre-game a Saints game.

9. Pluck Wine Bar & Restaurant

Rating: 4.8 (918 reviews)

At this Warehouse District bistro-meets-oenophile’s paradise (Pluck is a 2025 James Beard semifinalist for Outstanding Wine Program), longtime sommelier Skye LaTorre has assembled a knockout wine list. To eat? Lots of cheeses and charcuterie, but also wine-friendly fare, like a burger with Comté cheese and chorizo jam.

10. Herbsaint Bar & Restaurant

Rating: 4.8 (15K reviews)

Herbsaint is the restaurant that put chef Donald Link on the map, and even with his many other restaurants—it remains a New Orleans essential. Don't overlook the cornmeal-fried oysters and coconut cream pie, or for that matter, the extensive wine list.

11. Galatoire’s Restaurant

Rating: 4.6 (19K reviews)

What can we say? Galatoire’s is one of New Orleans’ quintessential dining experiences. You start with a Sazerac, of course, and then move into crab Yvonne or shrimp etouffée — a benchmark for that dish.

12. Charles & Julia

Rating: 4.7 (47 reviews)

13. Carousel Bar and Lounge

Rating: 4.9 (197 reviews)

You’ll definitely want a seat at the revolving bar — on an actual carousel that’s been rotating for 75 years. The cocktails are nonpareil, and there’s live music four nights a week.

14. Criollo Restaurant

Rating: 4.7 (1.7K reviews)

The dining room adjunct to the Hotel Monteleone’s legendary Carousel Bar, Criollo blends traditional Creole dishes with urbane international fare in an elegant atmosphere of dark wood, limestone flooring, and warm lighting.

15. Chapter IV

Rating: 4.9 (1.7K reviews)

Here's one for the books: A bright, sleek downtown restaurant serving Creole food for breakfast and lunch by chef Edgar “Dook” Chase — grandson of the late Leah Chase of the legendary Dooky Chase's.

16. Coterie

Rating: 4.6 (888 reviews)

Don’t miss this brick-lined Decatur Street mecca for classic Cajun fare and genre-defining cocktails. Gulf oysters are a specialty.

17. Gianna

Rating: 4.7 (12K reviews)

18. Restaurant R'evolution

Rating: 4.7 (2.2K reviews)

St. James Parish-born star chef John Folse has served Cajun and Creole fare around the world for decades. Don’t miss his trademark Death by Gumbo.

19. Poydras & Peters at Loews New Orleans Hotel

Rating: 3.9 (38 reviews)

Executive chef Thomas Hines helms the kitchen at this American brasserie situated inside the Loews New Orleans.

20. Besame - New Orleans

Rating: 4.8 (2.2K reviews)

An assortment of ceviches, cross-cultural tapas, and fresh Gulf seafood are on the menu at this exuberantly colorful Arts District trendsetter from chef Nanyo Dominguez.