Restaurants

Tom's Restaurant Review Database, updated weekly

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Displaying restaurants 61 - 79 of 79 in total

Patois

Uptown 3: Napoleon To Audubon

A good restaurant close enough to Clancy's to catch that ultra-popular bistro's overflow could be expected to do well. But that's not the reason why having dinner at Patois requires advance plannin...

Creole French

Pizza Domenica (Magazine)

Uptown 3: Napoleon To Audubon

Domenica is the maximum current attempt to duplicate certain culinary practices very common in Italy but rarely seen here. There are three major specialties. The best is pizza, baked in a five-ton,...

Italian

Ralph's On The Park

City Park Area

Ralph's is historic and beautiful. Across the street is the oldest part of the park, with the biggest live oaks and an ancient bayou. In the past few years the food has equaled the environment. Che...

Contemporary Creole

Restaurant Rebirth

Warehouse District & Center City

The first time I attempted to dine at Rebirth, I figured I could just walk in. I was told that the next reservation would only come open in about three hours. The next time we tried, we did call fo...

French-Creole

Restaurant R'evolution

French Quarter

The potential pleasures come at you from all directions at once. Opulent, imaginatively furnished dining rooms are served by an eager, faithful cadre of servers. Behind the scenes (mostly) is a hea...

Creole French

Rue 127

Mid-City

In the fertile restaurant community around the intersection of Canal and Carrollton, Rue 127 is a particularly pleasant addition. Forty-four seats, plus a dozen more outside on the sidewalk, fill u...

Contemporary Creole

Ruffino's

Baton Rouge

Ruth's Chris Steak House

Metairie 2: Orleans Line To Houma Blvd

Ruth's Chris, the biggest chain of premium steakhouses in the world, is a New Orleans native. The restaurant in Metairie is the chain's oldest. Nothing about it (or the one downtown) is much differ...

Steak

Sal and Judy's

Lacombe

The most popular white-tablecloth restaurant on the North Shore got that way by serving terrific New Orleans-Italian food in tremendous portions, at prices so low it makes one wonder how the place ...

Italian

Shaya

Uptown 2: Washington To Napoleon

Shogun Japanese Restauruant and Steak House

Metairie 2: Orleans Line To Houma Blvd

Shogun was New Orleans's first sushi bar, and only the second restaurant to serve sushi at all. It thereafter set the standard for all that would follow. Calling it the best sushi bar in town will ...

Japanese

Steak Knife

Lakeview

The Steak Knife is the longest-running player in the Lakeview restaurant row on Harrison Avenue. With an obvious (but not exclusive) specialty, it's long been a social center of Lakeview. The menu ...

Contemporary Creole

The Dakota Restaurant

Covington

Dakota is the only restaurant on the North Shore that has consistently kept its food, service, surroundings, and wine lists firmly in the top ranks since it opened. That's is more challenging than ...

Contemporary Creole

Tomas Bistro

Warehouse District & Center City

I think there's an off-chance that "fine dining"--a category of restaurant that has fallen on hard times across America in recent years--may well be on the verge of a renaissance. I put forth Tomas...

Creole French

Tommy's Cuisine

Warehouse District & Center City

After decades of managing classy local dining rooms, Tommy Andrade became a culinary entrepreneur. His experience in the front of the house and his staff of veteran chefs and servers make his flags...

Creole Italian

Trenasse

CBD

Although the CBD has been a hotbed for good new restaurants for over a decade, the wedge of the district between Canal and Poydras has been less fecund. Trenasse was just the restaurant to ameliora...

American

Upperline

Uptown 3: Napoleon To Audubon

The Upperline is the brainchild--there is no better word for it--of JoAnn Clevenger. Eating here is to open oneself to a barrage of her creative statements about art, drama, and literature, as well...

Contemporary Creole

Vincent's

Uptown 4: Riverbend, Carrollton & Broadmoor

Vincent's is the least pretentious great restaurant in New Orleans. It serves familiar New Orleans-style Italian food, combining a lusty flavor with enough polish that its offerings could be sold i...

Italian

Vincent's

Metairie 3: Houma Blvd To Kenner Line

Vincent's is the least pretentious great restaurant in New Orleans. In both of its small, cramped, well-worn restaurants, it serves familiar New Orleans-style Italian food with a lusty flavor and e...

Creole Italian