Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
From the outside, Bacchanal looks like a leaning Bywater shack; inside are racks of wine and stinky-but-sexy cheese. Musicians play in the garden, while…
Must-see restaurants in Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
The thin-crust pies here are done New York–style and taste great. The preparation is simple, but the ingredients are fresh and consistently top-notch. An…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
On weekend mornings the line quite literally extends out the door here. Biscuits and gravy (topped with andouille – smoked pork sausage), fried oysters…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
Red's has upped the Chinese cuisine game in New Orleans in a big way. The chefs aren't afraid to add lashings of Louisiana flavor, yet this isn't what we…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
Dining at N7 is deeply memorable, right down to the dining space. You walk down a potholed road to a garden littered with a vintage French junkyard theme…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
Elizabeth’s is deceptively down-at-heel, but the food’s as good as the best New Orleans chefs can offer. It's all friendliness, smiling sass, weird…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
This bakery is doing things right. It serves breakfasts – say, shrimp and grits or biscuits and gravy – in a cup (it works!), fantastic quiches, open…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
This modern American restaurant in a former rice mill uses local ingredients and impeccable technique to compose inventive, flavorsome dishes. Many, like…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
The Joint’s smoked meat has the olfactory effect of the Sirens’ sweet song, pulling you, the proverbial traveling sailor, off course and into a savory…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
Americans are learning what Europeans and Middle Easterners have long known: when you're drunk (and, to be fair, even when sober), shaved meat or falafel…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
This city has been sorely in need of a vegan-friendly spot that can hold its own against the city's famously meat-heavy cuisine. Enter Sneaky Pickle, a…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
Poke-chan adds a welcome bit of fresh Asian-inspired flavor to St Claude Ave. The menu features traditional Hawaiian poke – raw seafood salad – as well as…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
This convenience store is run by Vietnamese immigrants who know how to make some of the best, most overstuffed shrimp po’boys in New Orleans. Pass on…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
When your restaurant occupies the courtyard of Hi Ho Lounge, you better believe some bar food is on the menu, and Fry & Pie doesn't disappoint. Enjoy…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
The St Roch Market was once the seafood and produce market for a working-class neighborhood. But after it was nearly destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, it…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
Junction takes a tight-focused approach to cuisine: it does cheeseburgers, and does them well. Variations include an Iowa burger with corn relish, blue…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
This restaurant in the Siberia live-music bar serves, appropriately enough, Eastern European and Russian grub. The blinis (crepes) run the gamut from…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
Probably over a dozen restaurants in New Orleans claim to serve tapas, but Estaño is, per the Spanish tradition, one of the only true tapas bars in the…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
This colorful little spot has plenty of New Orleans character – and characters. This is a good spot to recover from a hangover; inked-up waitstaff cart…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
A decidedly hip addition to the St Claude corridor, the kitchen at Morrow's rolls out an unexpected combo of New Orleans Creole mainstays like po'boys,…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
If you take a date to this intimate Italian cubby squeezed on top of a jazz club (the Apple Barrel) and don't feel sparks, maybe it wasn't meant to be,…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
Operated by a dedicated team of butchers, Shank is unapologetically accommodating to carnivores. For breakfast, you can try an unctuous headcheese (a kind…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
In a neighborhood full of flashy new restaurants, Queenie's is appealingly old-school, even though it opened in 2017. This is a counter-style spot with…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
Franklin is as fancy as this area gets: smooth industrial design, low lighting, black-clad waitstaff and a hip ambience. Which is all well and good, but…
Who Dat Coffee Cafe & Cafe Nero
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
This comfortable coffee shop has good pastries, better sandwiches, lovely coffee and cupcakes, many baked with a bit of booze. The on-site restaurant,…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
This divey neighborhood bar also has a Vietnamese kitchen in the back serving great pho, banh mi (Vietnamese po’boys) and spring rolls. Just be aware the…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
With its chalkboard menu of organic soups and sandwiches, ginger limeade (seriously, this drink on a hot day is heaven), and graphic- and-pop art…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
The Frenchmen St outpost of this popular local franchise serves sausages ranging from 'duck dogs' to alligator sausage to hot Cajun sausage layered with…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
Need a good breakfast to start your day or to soak up the excesses of the night before? It's the most important meal of the day, and you could do a lot…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
This little restaurant, slotted next to the ribald karaoke at Kajun's, pumps out wonderful bowls of pasta. The homemade sauces are creative and tasty,…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
As it’s usually called, '13' is a diner with a twist: much of its delicious greasy-spoon fare is actually vegetarian. A Philly cheesesteak, for example,…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
You'll find casual yet refined Chinese in this Creole shack, which boasts a dining room and a menu that is small and delicious. Elegant steamed bao …
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
It’s hard to miss Gene’s: with its pink-and-yellow exterior, it’s one of the most vividly painted buildings on Elysian Fields Ave. The hot sausage po’boy…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
This co-op has all kinds of healthy, sustainably sourced groceries that tick all the other boxes (pesticide free, non-GMO, gluten free, etc). It's a bit…
Faubourg Marigny & Bywater
This unexpectedly huge neighborhood grocery store/emporium of weird stuff – Mardi Gras beads and camping equipment – has a good hot-food stand that’s open…
