Soul Food restaurants in New Orleans
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Praline Connection
If you’ve never had soul food before, the PC might blow you away, but connoisseurs of the genre may find this popular tour-group stop middling. The food is pretty good, in a mom’s-kitchen kind of way – standbys are of the meat loaf, fried chicken and fish topped with étouffée school of cooking – but this restaurant hovers in that frustrating space between ‘meh’ and ‘wow.’ The service is cool; besides being friendly, the waiters dress like the Blues Brothers, which we’re always down with.
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Willie Mae's Scotch House
The fried chicken at Willie Mae's is good. Very good. But it's not the best in the world, despite being named an 'American Classic' by the James Beard foundation in 2005 (eight weeks before Katrina and a subsequent huge community effort at reopening the restaurant, which makes the place even more irresistible). In a little white house in a low-income neighborhood you'll see cars from California, Canada and New York seeking the best, but honestly and objectively, we'd score the fried chicken here 7 out of 10.
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C
Lil’ Dizzy’s
One of the city’s great lunch spots, Dizzy’s does mean soul-food specials in a historic shack owned by the Baquet family. The fried chicken is excellent, the hot sausages may be better and the bread pudding is divine. Our one gripe is the gumbo, which was more like thin brown water.
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