Louisianan restaurants in North America
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Hyman's
Yeah, it's a tourist trap, but the famous she-crab soup, po'boy sandwiches and crispy flounder at this massive downtown institution are worth the wait, especially at lunch when the lines are not quite so long.
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Palace Cafe
Po’boys, roast duck and dressing, fried chicken, smothered okra – the Palace Cafe has been serving the tastes of Louisiana since it opened in 1927. It’s still a local fave.
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Sleep Out Louie's
This is the kind of place you can go by yourself, take a seat at the bar and make new friends. The menu features delicious burgers, po'boy sandwiches and fresh salads, along with oysters on the half shell. A small courtyard offers outside seating.
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Dante’s Kitchen
Dante’s specializes in melding French, American and Louisiana traditions: pork shoulder with red boudin (Cajun sausage) dirty rice and maple-glazed chicken with potato-bacon hash cake are good examples, but it’s the Sunday brunch we enjoy most. Debris and poached eggs on a caramelized onion biscuit, topped with a demi-glacé hollandaise sauce is a pretty unbelievable way to start your day, unless you opt for the bread pudding French toast.
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Latil’s Landing
This exquisite little eatery occupies rooms of the original 1700s home, where dishes like bisque of curried pumpkin and crawfish, and Creole lobster risotto are served on Limoges reproductions of the plantation’s original china. You dine like a sugar baron could have only dreamed thanks to modern transport and fusion cooking. Chef Jeremy Langlois’ seven-course tasting menu can be paired with selections from the plantation’s historic cellars.
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Cabin Restaurant
Two miles from River Road, this rustic old joint occupies a collection of slave dwellings and other dependencies rescued from the demolished Monroe, Welham and Helvetia plantations. The interior walls are papered with old newspapers in the same manner that slaves once insulated their rough-sawn cabin walls. Besides po’boys you can get dishes like red beans and rice with sausage. The restaurant is totally geared to serving tourist crowds, but the gumbo is pretty good.
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Jacques-Imo’s Café
If cornbread muffins swimming in butter aren’t rich enough, how about steak smothered in bleu cheese and bacon? Or the insane yet wickedly brilliant alligator sausage cheesecake? That’s the whole attitude at Jack Leonardi’s exceedingly popular restaurant: die, happily, with butter and heavy sauces sweating out of your pores. Jack can often be seen in the kitchen (which you walk through to get to the dining room) cooking in his boxer shorts – always a sign of quality.
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Mr B’s Bistro
Really, we’re not shilling for the Brennan family, but this is yet another one of their contributions to the local eating scene. Mr B’s is a clubby, attractively designed restaurant that, in Brennan style, adds a bit of rocket fuel to push local Louisiana food into the future. The barbecue shrimp is the stuff of legend, and very arguably the best take on the stuff in the city. If water bugs aren’t your thing, may we direct you to the rabbit braised in apple cider?
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Cuvée
Cuvée is a high-class joint in a stylishly converted warehouse space. Its thoughtful, descriptive menu projects an understandable pride in fine ingredients and cooking methods. Influences range freely between Cajun, Creole and French cuisines for exotic originals that are to be admired and savored bite by bite. The dinner menu might include grilled redfish over andouille hash, mustard and herb-coated salmon, and seared sea scallops with toasted pearl pasta and truffle shellfish fumet.
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Cajun Village Coffee House
Sure they serve full Louisiana breakfasts and plate lunches, but it’s the beignets filled with sweet and savory toppings that are the real highlight at this self-service cottage restaurant. Opt for strawberry-and-cream stuffing or spice it up with shrimp in the middle of your fried dough puff.
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Herbsaint
This may cause a riot, but Herbsaint’s duck and andouille gumbo might be the best restaurant gumbo in town. The rest of the food ain’t too bad either – much modern bistro fare with dibs and dabs of Louisiana influence. Kurobuta pork belly comes with local white-bean sauce, while frog-legs hop off the pan (sorry, couldn’t resist) with a fine herb dusting. Reservations are a good idea if you’re coming for dinner.
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Gumbo Shop
For an unabashed tourist trap, Gumbo Shop (a) does pretty good gumbo, and (b) gets a fair amount of respect from locals, although we’ve never seen a local inside here (unless they’re taking orders). The decor is actually quite lovely, all frescoed out with scenes of old New Orleans. We reckon the Shop, like most heavy-turnover food factories (for that is what this is), suffers from inconsistency in the food quality, though it’s never below mediocre.
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