Another unrepentantly old school New Orleans joint, Clancy's does the mid 20th-century New Orleans thing better than its better-known rivals in the Quarter. With white tablecloths and ancient photo... read more
If there's an inverse relationship between the quality of live music and its location's proximity to the Quarter, then The Maple Leaf is seven days a week of evidence. Each night, a local fave take... read more
Chef/owner Jacques Leonardi runs this energetic asylum as an extension of his eccentric personality. The Cajun chow is tasty as hell, adventurous, plentiful and gives good bang for the cuisine buck... read more
Inside and out, New Orleans is richly endowed with its own sense of style and architecture. Trouble is, this Nola sensibility is of a certain period, and attempts to square it with a more modern lo... read more
Located in an Uptown house, Brigsten's serves upscale Creole food that doesn't bury the essential nature of the cuisine under an avalanche of reinvention. Married co-owners Marna and Frank Brigsten... read more
For all its supposed "Southern-ness," New Orleans isn't a big BBQ town. Sure, people love pork and brisket cooked long over low heat, but Nola doesn't have the rep of Memphis or Kansas City. Squeal... read more
An Uptown bar where Uptown folks do their chillaxin', Monkey Hill ups the cozy angle on high-class imbibing with a slew of ultra-comfy couches opposite the bar; it's a wonder more people don't pass... read more
The leading men's clothing store in New Orleans, this stalwart has been wedging guys into formal and casual threads for seven decades. Particularly popular is its crawfish-logoed line of shirts and... read more
The jewel of Uptown restaurants, Gautreau's serves subtly intoxicating French cuisine in an intimate, gilded setting. Chef Sue Zemanick doesn't run riot with odd ingredient pairings but instead thr... read more
La Fleur is one-stop shopping for the ladies. An extensive collection of dresses is augmented by handbags, lingerie, jewelry and other feminine obsessions, though none of the inventory can be consi... read more
Eat your heart out, Toulouse-Lautrec! Outside, it's got the full fin de siècle thing going, almost as if it's a slice out of Paris itself. Inside is modern mosaic funky, with superior French... read more
This creole bar/restaurant wants to be everything. It's a like a ta...
Upscale cocktail lounge named after photographer E.J. Bellocq (1873...
Ralph Brennan’s new restaurant in the New Orleans Museum of Art (h...
Prime party spot in a prime party town. A decent food menu, but you...
Former carriage house now houses one of the most delightful restaur...