The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near The Windsor Court Spa
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Rank 1. The Grill Room
Contemporary New American
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Rank 2. Restaurant August
Contemporary Cajun & Creole
Candles and chandeliers warm a brick-and-wood dining room where Chef Corey Thomas updates Louisiana cooking with contemporary technique—gnocchi crowned with jumbo lump crab, collard greens pithivier in Creole mustard sauce. The room absorbs anniversaries and celebrations with an ease that formal restraint rarely allows.
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Rank 4. Chandelier Bar
New Orleans
- Esquire 2023 · Martini of the Year: Chandelier Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · U.S. Bartender of the Year · J’Nai Angelle Williams
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Rank 5. Compère Lapin
Caribbean
Inside a converted coffee warehouse, Compère Lapin marries Caribbean spice with New Orleans tradition through dishes like jerk-honey fried chicken and curried goat with sweet potato gnocchi. Nina Compton's rustic dining room—all exposed brick and dim light—hums with the kind of unhurried hospitality that makes a kitchen's ambitions feel genuinely welcoming.
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Nina Compton
- Eater The All-Time Eater 38
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 10 U.S. Nominee · U.S. Bartender of the Year · Erika Flowers
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Rank 6. Emeril's
Cajun & Creole
E.J. Lagasse has refreshed his father's three-decade Creole institution with contemporary precision, evident in barbecued shrimp tarts and gumbo that taste both classic and alive. Generous spacing and a visible kitchen create an elegant stage for cooking that prioritizes flavor without sacrificing refinement.
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- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. Central
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. Central
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. Central
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Rank 9. Brennan's
Cajun & Creole
- AAA Four Diamonds
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service · Braithe Gill
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 10 U.S. Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Eater These Are the Very Best Bars in New Orleans
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Rank 11. Pêche
Seafood
A decade in, Donald Link's seafood restaurant remains taut and purposeful in its rustic-industrial quarters. Gulf fish arrive daily and meet the wood-burning grill with quiet competence; the smoked tuna dip and whole fish with brown rice congee are worth the trip. The marble raw bar and front counter buzz with the kind of easy momentum that suggests the place has learned exactly what it does.
- Food & Wine 2024 · Best New Chefs · Nicole Cabrera Mills
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurateur · Donald Link and Stephen Stryjewski - Link Restaurant Group
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Nicole Cabrera Mills
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Rank 12. King Brasserie
Modern French
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Rank 14. Cochon
Southern
A warehouse corner in the CBD lined with exposed brick and worn wood holds the kind of Southern cooking that honors its sources: wood-fired oysters, cracklins with cane syrup, rabbit and dumplings from a family recipe. The gumbo arrives dense with andouille, the whiskey list substantial, the whole enterprise a model of unfussy conviction.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurateur · Donald Link and Stephen Stryjewski - Link Restaurant Group
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurateur · Donald Link and Stephen Stryjewski - Link Restaurant Group
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 15. Arnaud's French 75 Bar
French Cocktail Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outsdanding Hospitality
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 4 Finalist · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar
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Rank 16. Restaurant R’evolution
Cajun & Creole
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Rank 17. Herbsaint
French-Italian Cajun & Creole
Windows frame Saint Charles Avenue at this stalwart French-inflected bistro, where house-made spaghetti and Muscovy duck confit with citrus gastrique anchor a kitchen fluent in Cajun, Creole, and Italian vernaculars. The cooking refuses neat classification, which is precisely the point.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurateur · Donald Link and Stephen Stryjewski - Link Restaurant Group
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 18. M Bistro
Modern Sushi
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Rank 19. Loa Bar
New Orleans
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Professional in Cocktail Service · Abigail Gullo
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. Central
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Rank 21. Fives
New Orleans
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 1 Pin
- Esquire 2025 · Mirage Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- Eater These Are the Very Best Bars in New Orleans
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Rank 22. Jewel of the South
Southern Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best 2025 · #44 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · Roku Industry Icon Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars · Chris Hannah
- 50 Best 2026 · #6 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 23. Espiritu Mezcaleria
Mexican
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. Central
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. Central
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 4 Finalist · Best U.S. Hotel Bar
- Eater These Are the Very Best Bars in New Orleans
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Rank 25. Lufu Nola
Indian
Three friends channel their passion for Indian cooking into craveable tandoori naan and a dosa so crisp and golden it justifies a pilgrimage alone. The Curry Nola-da, a garam masala-spiked nonalcoholic riff on a piña colada, proves restraint can be as inventive as excess.
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Rank 29. GW Fins
Upscale Seafood
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in New Orleans
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Michael Nelson
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Rank 30. Vyoone's
Cajun & Creole
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Rank 31. Pluck
New Orleans
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- Esquire 2024 · Dirty Boi · The Best Martinis in America
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. Central
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Rank 35. Lagniappe Bakehouse
Southern Bakery
- The New York Times 22 of the Best Bakeries Across the U.S. Right Now
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Emerging Chef · Kaitlin Guerin
- Eater Best New Bakery
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- Punch 2025 · Best New Bartenders · Mel Tate
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. Central
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Donald Link's butcher shop on Tchoupitoulas has perfected the art of restraint: mortadella so thin it's nearly translucent, head cheese in proper wedges, bread baked in-house and never stale. The muffuletta alone, layered with house-cured meats and olive salad, justifies the pilgrimage and easily feeds two.
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Rank 38. Barrel Proof
Cocktail Bar
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Robert LeBlanc - LeBlanc + Smith
- Eater These Are the Very Best Bars in New Orleans
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Rank 39. Galatoire's
French-Creole Cajun & Creole
A gilt-mirrored room where Friday lunch remains a formal, champagne-soaked ceremony in New Orleans. Oysters Rockefeller and soufflé potatoes with béarnaise anchor a century of French-Creole cooking built on seafood, cream, and butter—nothing here hurries or whispers. The meal is an act of surrender to leisure.
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Rank 40. Manolito
Classic Cuban
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. Central
- Eater These Are the Very Best Bars in New Orleans
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Rank 41. Killer PoBoys
Contemporary American
A former pop-up on Dauphine Street where the po'boy gets a contemporary makeover, beginning with bread from Dong Phuong and shrimp seared rather than fried. Sriracha aioli and pickled vegetables complete the upgrade; order at the counter and expect Crystal hot sauce at your elbow.
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Rank 42. Jolie
French Cocktail Bar
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Rank 43. Willie Mae’s
Southern
The Seaton family's fried chicken—crispy, seasoned to purpose, accompanied by a gumbo deep with shrimp and crab—draws from seventy years of practice, though the current dining room in downtown feels a world away from the original Treme location. What matters is that the chicken remains superb, the butter beans and spiced cabbage genuine, the whole meal earnest and satisfying.
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Rank 44. Ayu Bakehouse
New Orleans
- Food & Wine 2025 · Kelly Jacques · Best New Chefs
- Food & Wine 2024 · Boudin Boy · Best Dishes Our Editors Ate This Year
- The Infatuation Our Favorite Bakeries In The Country Right Now
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- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. Central
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. Central
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Rank 46. MaMou
Modern French
- Bon Appétit 2023 · America's Best New Restaurants
- Wine Enthusiast 2024 · Forward 50 Restaurants
- The New York Times 2023 · The Restaurant List
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- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Robert LeBlanc - LeBlanc + Smith
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- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Robert LeBlanc - LeBlanc + Smith
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Rank 50. Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop
New Orleans
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Rank 51. Maïs Arepas
Colombian
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Rank 52. Fritai
Haitian Caribbean
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Charly Pierre
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Charly Pierre
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in New Orleans
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Rank 53. Cane & Table
Cajun & Creole
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- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Robert LeBlanc - LeBlanc + Smith
- VinePair 2023 · Drinks Professional of the Year · The Next Wave Awards · Neal Bodenheimer
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Rank 55. Café Reconcile
Southern
- The New York Times 2023 · The Restaurant List
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in New Orleans Right Now
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in New Orleans
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Rank 56. Paladar 511
Refined Italian
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in New Orleans Right Now
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in New Orleans
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Rank 57. Palm&Pine
Cajun & Creole
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Amarys Koenig Herndon and Jordan Herndon
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Amarys Koenig Herndon and Jordan Herndon
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Rank 58. The Elysian Bar
New Orleans
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. Central
- Food & Wine 2025 · The Top 10 Hotel Bars in the US
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. Central
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Rank 61. Acamaya
Seafood Mexican
Chef Ana Castro's seafood-driven menu balances boldness with refinement in a striking pink-tiled room that feels caught between Bywater and Mexico. Nixtamalized corn, house-made masa, and unexpected spice elevations—like peanut mole on sweet potato—define her approach to New Orleans Gulf cooking.
- Condé Nast Traveler 2024 · The best new restaurants in the world
- Food & Wine 2025 · Arroz Negro · Best Dishes Our Editors Ate This Year
- Bon Appétit 2025 · America's Best New Restaurants
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Rank 62. Dooky Chase
Cajun & Creole
Dooky Chase carries forward Leah Chase's civil-rights-era legacy through Chef Edgar's unfussy Creole cooking—gumbo, red beans, fried chicken—served in a red-walled dining room hung with African-American art. Attentive matriarchs and honest food create the rare restaurant where history and warmth feel inseparable.
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Winner · America's Classics: South
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in New Orleans Right Now
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Rank 63. Commander's Palace
Haute Cajun & Creole
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Esquire 2025 · La-Ti-Da · The Best Martinis in America
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
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Rank 64. Hot Tin
Cocktail Bar
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. Central
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. Central
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Rank 66. Molly's Rise and Shine
Southern American
Formica and vinyl chairs anchor this Garden District breakfast-only spot where nostalgia meets riff. The Grand Slam McMuffin—sage sausage, hashbrown, griddled onions, American cheese—elevates the fast-food template, while collard greens over grits gain complexity through salsa macha and a peanut salad. Comfort food with ambition, served without pretense.
- Food & Wine 2024 · Hashbrown and Roe · Best Dishes Our Editors Ate This Year
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Mason Hereford
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Colleen Quarls and Liz Hollinger
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Rank 68. Cure
Southern
- 50 Best 2026 · #21 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Food & Wine 2025 · #1 · The 10 Top Bars in the US
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
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A kitschy sandwich counter where collard green melts arrive loaded with pickled peppers and Russian dressing on toasted rye, and even the cabbage salad gets buried under fried garlic and crispy pig ears. Nothing here aims for restraint or lightness—each plate is constructed for maximum crunch and assertive flavor, a philosophy that's worked since 2016.
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Rank 70. Dakar NOLA
African
Chef Serigne Mbaye draws on Harlem and Senegal in a cottage on Magazine Street, where two seatings move unhurried through compositions of Gulf fish and West African spice. The tasting menu unfolds with okra soup sharpened by crab and tamarind, each plate grounded in local farms and the steady warmth of co-owner Dr. Afua Richardson.
- 50 Best 2025 · #6 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Winner · Best New Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Emerging Chef · Serigne Mbaye
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- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Robert LeBlanc - LeBlanc + Smith
- Esquire 2023 · The Best Bars in America
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. Central
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Rank 72. Saint-Germain
Contemporary New American
An unassuming Bywater storefront conceals a dining room where chefs Blake Aguillard and Trey Smith unfold a tasting menu of refined sauces and bold flavors, beginning with cultured butter on griddled cornbread and ascending through Carolina Gold rice with crab. The meal's logic—intimate, petite, attentive—feels less like service and more like a conversation conducted in courses.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Wine Enthusiast 2023 · Forward 50 Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Blake Aguillard and Trey Smith
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Rank 73. Li'l Dizzy's
Cajun & Creole
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- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Mason Hereford
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in New Orleans
- Eater 2017 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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- Wildsam The 50 Most Essential Bars in America
- Huckberry The 50 Best Dive Bars in America
- Eater These Are the Very Best Bars in New Orleans
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Rank 77. Hungry Eyes
Fusion
Neon and VHS set the stage for Chef Mason Hereford's unapologetic maximalism—charred cabbage electrified with Sichuan oil, hearts of palm and calamari in curry, artichokes garlicked like oysters. Big flavors that shouldn't cohere do, with a kitschy ease that makes restraint seem beside the point.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar
- Bon Appétit 2024 · America's Best New Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Mason Hereford
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Rank 78. NightBloom
Cocktail Bar
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. Central
- Eater Best New Bar
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Rank 80. Shaya
Modern Middle Eastern
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- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
- The New York Times 2025 · The Restaurant List
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Rank 85. Saffron NOLA
Indian
Chef Arvinder Vilkhu's family-run Magazine Street spot fuses Indian spices with Louisiana traditions, as seen in a curried seafood gumbo that marries both worlds. The chic, warmly lit dining room and inviting bar frame dishes like fragrant Gulf fish in korma sauce with crispy ginger and curd rice.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best Chef: South · Arvinder Vilkhu
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Arvinder Vilkhu and Ashwin Vilkhu
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 87. Porgy's Seafood Market
New Orleans Seafood
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
- Eater Best New Seafood Market and Restaurant
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Rank 88. Addis NOLA
Ethiopian
At this Esplanade Ridge corner, Prince Lobo and his parents serve Ethiopian classics with the care of daily handmade injera and a dining room dressed in African textiles and wicker. Sambusas arrive golden and crisp alongside sweet awaze; the tibs and lentil dishes carry the weight of tradition without nostalgia. It's food that tastes like it knows exactly who it's feeding.
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Rank 91. Chicken's Kitchen
Cajun & Creole
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Marlon "Chicken” Chukumerije Williams
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in New Orleans Right Now
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in New Orleans
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Rank 92. Zasu
New American
Sue Zemanick's cottage on Carrollton Avenue conceals a dining room of restrained elegance—dark green walls, warm gold accents, blonde wood. Her menu, a dozen dishes of seafood and local produce refined through French technique, moves with purpose: scallops in Thai chile-lime butter, tilefish with Swiss chard and beurre blanc, peach cake with vanilla yogurt. Cooking that knows what it wants to say.
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Rank 94. Mister Mao
Asian
In a dining room painted hot pink and emerald, chef Miles Eldridge builds a cuisine that refuses borders: fried chicken dumplings with date and poblano chutney, egg noodles glossed in butter and fish sauce, greens stewed with turmeric and coconut milk. The cooking is clever and unpretentious, a kind of cross-cultural riffing that works because the flavors are true.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Sophina Uong
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in New Orleans
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Rank 95. Atchafalaya
Cajun & Creole
Chef Christopher Lynch updates Creole classics with precise technique and bold toppings—fried green tomatoes crowned with rock shrimp and trout roe, crab cake Benedict suspended over shrimp sauce Américaine. The narrow room fills quickly, but the food commands absolute attention.
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Rank 96. Liuzza's by the Track
Cajun & Creole
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in New Orleans Right Now
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in New Orleans
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Rank 99. Coquette
Contemporary Southern
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Michael Stoltzfus
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. Central
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in New Orleans
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Rank 100. Queen Trini Lisa
Trinidadian Caribbean
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in New Orleans Right Now
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in New Orleans