Restaurants

Tom's Restaurant Review Database, updated weekly

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Commander's Palace

Uptown 1: Garden District & Environs

Combining classicism with inventiveness, hitting peaks in every index by which restaurants are measured, ever improving on what it's done in its brilliant past, Commander's is solidly our most plea...

Contemporary Creole

Emeril's

Warehouse District & Center City

Emeril Lagasse has one of the greatest disadvantages a restaurateur can have in New Orleans: he's very successful. Visitors to New Orleans, unaffected by this disease of local diners, get a disprop...

Contemporary Creole

La Petite Grocery

Uptown 2: Washington To Napoleon

One of the two or three brightest lights on the brilliant Magazine Street restaurant row, the Grocery has matured into a reliable, comfortable, sophisticated bistro. Behind the illusion of French t...

French

Pardo's

Covington

Pardo's is the first North Shore restaurant to offer the food, service and style of the gourmet Creole bistro. Such restaurants have been dominant in New Orleans proper since the early 1980s, but u...

Contemporary Creole

Pelican Club

French Quarter

The Pelican Club is the finest undercover restaurant in the entire New Orleans restaurant scene. Chef-owner Richard Hughes buys beautiful food and cooks it with skill and originality. Unlike most r...

Contemporary Creole

Restaurant August

CBD

Restaurant August had such a long run at the top of the New Orleans dining tower that at least the perception of decline was inevitable. In fact, I think it happened, during 2008 and 2009, when Joh...

Eclectic