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- SsarahdNew Orleans / Louisiana •6 reviews5.0Dined 2 days agoAnother excellent experience in this beautiful setting! Charlie was a great waiter! Thanks for allll of your wonderful recommendations!More infoVessel NOLA$$$$• Contemporary American• Mid-City / City Park•4.3
- MMelvinatorNew Orleans / Louisiana •8 reviews5.0Dined 6 days agoSmall, quaint and New Orleans Loud 😳 Just what we were looking for! Went for our Anniversary ….. private booths may have been better ❤️More infoCrescent City Steak House$$$$• Steakhouse• Mid-City / City Park•4.7
- IAIrishAyesvipNew Orleans / Louisiana •24 reviews5.0Dined 6 days agoEverything we had was thoughtfully prepared and delicious. Then menu has varied dishes to appeal to everyone in a group, and the execution and taste is top-notch. Really, there is nothing that I would change about our meal, it was that good. A hidden gem in NOLA.More infoGabrielle Restaurant New Orleans$$$$• Creole / Cajun / Southern• Mid-City / City Park•4.8
- WWhodatNew Orleans / Louisiana •2 reviews5.0Dined on May 24, 2023PLEASE REOPEN SOON!!!!! We will miss your great burgers - best in NOLA!More infoBrown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar$$$$• Contemporary Southern• Mid-City / City Park•4.7
- SshornkochvipNew Orleans / Louisiana •11 reviews5.0Dined on Aug 13, 2021Really great food very affordable. Attentive and friendly serviceMore infoRevel Cafe and Bar$$$$• American• Mid-City / City Park•4.5
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New Orleans’s restaurants are the beating heart of this festive city, and to say they’ve had a tough few years would be putting it mildly. The good news is that hospitality is calling again, and nobody does it better than the restaurateurs, chefs, servers, and bartenders that call the Big Easy home. Superior service continues to set New Orleans’s restaurant scene apart. Among the standouts, there’s a brand-new izakaya helmed by a meticulous executive chef who spent time in Japan and a Mid-City tapas bar that churns out a one-of-its-kind, afterhours brunch for the midnight munchies. Book one, book all, and be warmly welcomed at these four new restaurants, representing the best of New Orleans right now.
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New Orleans’s restaurants have hosted lovers and trysts for more than 300 years. Couples looking for romance are sure to find it in the Big Easy, whether it’s in the embrace of a velvet-clad hotel lounge or an intimate, family-owned neighborhood joint. Butter up your beau with a steak and martini at an iconic Mid-City steakhouse. Tuck into a tasting menu fit for royalty at a Japanese jewel box in the Central Business District. There’s a table for every kind of date across this festive city. Read on for a guide to 9 New Orleans restaurants ready to host your next romantic occasion.
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French, Spanish and Creole influences evolved New Orleans cuisine into a genre all its own. Combine Gulf coast seafood, a butter-based sauce and Cajun spices, and you’re looking at a classic Nola dish. Take the famed crawfish boil, for instance, which locals advise is best eaten as a family. In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, the restaurant industry banded together to support their city in the wake of serious devastation. New restaurants began opening their doors, and today you’ll find a wealth of cuisines that span the classics to modern reinventions to everything in between.
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Dog friendly restaurants in New Orleans include The Bower, New Orleans Creole Cookery and Antoine's
Child friendly restaurants in New Orleans include Red Fish Grill, Brennan's and Superior Seafood
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