The Top 2 Tasting Menus Near Bud Rip's

Updated June 17, 2026

Categories

  1. Rank 1. 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.

    Awards
    Address
    3054 Saint Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA · New Orleans
    Reserve
    Tock
    Online
    Website
    On the Way What's Around

  2. Rank 2. 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.

    Awards
    Address
    3814 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA · New Orleans
    Reserve
    OpenTable
    Online
    Website
    On the Way What's Around

Browse a location

Current Location

Metros

Recents

  • No recent searches yet.

Yumscore

This score is based on the awards it's won and sometimes its proximity to where you're located (if you're doing a location-based search).

    Stayscore

    This score is based on the awards it's won and sometimes its proximity to where you're located (if you're doing a location-based search).

      Doscore

      This score is based on the awards it's won and sometimes its proximity to where you're located (if you're doing a location-based search).

        Best Place Score

        The Best Place Score is the score we give to the place you're searching from, based on how cool we think the area around it is. If it seems unreasonably low, we probably just haven't added a representative amount of awards yet.