Café restaurants in Louisiana
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Old Tyme Grocery
For shrimp or roast-beef po’boys at lunch or dinner, this no-frills joint is heralded as the best in town. In summer, swing round the back for a refreshing ice-cream treat.
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First & Last Chance Café
This trackside joint was once the only place to grab a drink on the rail trip from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.
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Royal Blend
Has a pleasant courtyard in which to sip coffee and chew a toasted bagel and other baked goods. They also serve a passable gumbo and light lunch fare. The courtyard is a free wi-fi zone.
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Fair Grinds
Fair Grinds is simultaneously airy and comfy and hip and unpretentious, and the coffee’s good to boot. It showcases local art and generally acts as the beating heart of Mid-City’s bohemian scene; plus it supports, through donations and promotions, any number of community development associations.
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Grapevine Cafe
When the white-chocolate bread pudding tastes like a cloud, you have good reason to start with dessert first. But you shouldn’t miss chef Cynthia Schneider’s other dishes, like crawfish étouffée served in a pastry shell, or on top of polenta-like cornbread. Brunch is especially good.
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Kahve Royale
Kahve is a bit more lo-fi than other Marigny cafes. It’s cash only and the entire place feels a bit like it was assembled on a shoestring. This, of course, is the romance of the place, the most rustically charming caffeine haven in the neighborhood. The friendly service obviously doesn’t hurt.
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Orange Couch
This is an icebox-cool cafe, all Ikea-esque furniture, polished stone flooring, pierced types behind the counter, local artwork and photography on the walls, graffitied up restrooms and, yes, an orange leather couch in the midst of it all. It’s very much Marigny, the sort of place where a tattooed attorney with dyed-black hair takes out a Mac and a book on tort law and cracks away at work for hours.
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Refuel
New Orleans has no shortage of coffee shops, but most of them are more cute and cozy as opposed to cool. This hip cafe adds a bit of much-needed chic to the local coffee culture scene, but it’s hardly pretentious; service here is some of the friendliest in town. The staff serve fresh food such as Baja omelets with avocado, but New Orleans mainstays like grits keep the kitchen rooted, as it should be, in the South.
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Flora Gallery & Coffee Shop
Flora is almost the perfect New Orleans cafe. If you could smoke inside, as in the old days, it’d be 10 out of 10. No offense nonsmokers, but this is just the sort of place – madcap art, antique store furniture, a vibe that jukes between folk and punk rock, lush gardens and a perfect Parisian bohemian atmosphere – that demands the accompaniment of clouds of tobacco smoke. Alas, the latter isn’t there, but for the majority of you readers, that only makes the great Flora better.
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Café Beignet
In a shaded patio setting with a view of Royal St, this intimate cafe serves small meals over the counter. French-style omelets stuffed with ham, Belgian waffles and beignets are all a good start to the day, while quiches and sandwiches make up the simple lunch fare. There’s a low-level war among foodies over who does the better beignet, here or Café du Monde, with the general consensus being the former uses less powdered sugar as a topping. Whether this makes Café Beignet beignets better is all down to your sweet tooth and tolerance for mess making.
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Frog City Cafe
The tourist board likes to say the little town of Rayne, 20 miles west of Lafayette, is the ‘Frog Capital of the World.’ What with a Frog Festival on Labor Day weekend (think frog-jumping contests) and a bevy of frog-themed murals around town, we’ll concede it’s at least the froggiest town in the USA. The wet rice fields around Rayne are ideal aquatic habitats. Locals started shipping the high-hopping amphibians to New Orleans restaurants in the 1890s; by 1946 they were being exported as far as France. Exports have since ceased, but you can still try fried frog legs at Chef Roy’s Frog City Cafe.
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CC’s Coffee House
Community Coffee has been a staple in most Louisiana homes since 1919. This corner cafe is its French Quarter outpost, and it’s a good spot for perching, caffeine sipping, net surfing and the rest. Its very sweet ice-coffee blends are a treat on hot days.
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