“Eat” listings
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Green Goddess
This tiny restaurant (16 seats, no reservations) on a beautiful, quiet French Quarter alley is intensely seasonal, with an ever-changing menu. Watermelon-ginger soup with lump crab meat and whitealmond gazpacho are typical late-summer starters that you shouldn’t miss. (09/2011)
307 Exchange Alley
504-301-3347
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Domenica
Sleek décor and Italian comfort food made with local ingredients is what you’ll find at Chef Alon Shaya’s temple to home-cured meats, cheeses, housemade pasta, wood-fired pizzas and craft cocktails. Daily happy hour (3pm to 6pm)—with half-price pizza, wine and beer—is one of the best deals in town. $$ (08/2011)
123 Baronne St
504-648-6020
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Cowbell
This casual eatery opened last winter in the Riverbend neighborhood and was an immediate hit. Chef Brack May offers local, sustainable Southernfusion cuisine like lime-grilled organic chicken and barbecued ribeye. The mac and cheese is out of this world. $$ (05/2011)
8801 Oak St
504-298-8689
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Feast
This nationally lauded new restaurant reinvents traditional British farmhouse food with local, seasonal ingredients and a tip-to-tail attitude toward butchery— lard and offal are both on the table. Duck and chicken gizzard pot pie, anyone? $$$ (04/2011)
200 Julia St
504-304-6318
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Stanley
Fancy New Orleans diner food is served in a Southern soda fountain setting at this popular spot. Try the bananas foster French toast, fresh Gulf oyster sliders and housemade Italian sodas, all in a gorgeous room on Jackson Square near St. Louis Cathedral. $ (03/2011)
547 St Ann St
504-587-0093
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Pascal's Manale
An old-line Italian restaurant in Uptown, Pascal's invented New Orleans “barbecued shrimp” (actually sautéed in spicy butter and served with bibs). Fresh-shucked oysters, fork-tender veal and scallops with crab meat are eternal favorites, served in oak-shaded rooms untouched by the decades. $$$ (03/2011)
1838 Napoleon Ave
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DOOKY CHASE
Leah Chase, the doyenne of Creole cooking, presents a soul-food lunch buffet (Tues to Fri) featuring fried chicken, red beans, catfi sh and okra, among other specialties, served in a room decorated with works by African- American artists and photos of the luminaries who have eaten there. $$ (01/2011)
2301 Orleans Ave
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CAFÉ MINH
Vietnamese-French-Louisiana fusion? Chef Minh Bui’s spice mastery is evident in dishes like nut-crusted oysters in a sweet chili sauce, garlicky Asian short ribs and Thai-style curries that are served with pasta instead of rice. $$$ (01/2011)
4139 Canal St
504-482-6266 -
M BISTRO
Chef Matt Murphy melds organic, seasonal ingredients from local farmers and artisans to create dishes like wild mushroom gumbo, crabmeat Cobb salad and po’boys with Gulf shrimp and spicy alligator boudin sausage. $$$$ (01/2011)
At The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans 921 Canal St
504-524-1331
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BETSY’S PANCAKE HOUSE
Huge breakfasts with hefty helpings of scrambled eggs, hash browns and grits at ridiculously low prices are worth a visit to this beloved diner. The people-watching is notable, too; many of the city’s movers and shakers start their mornings here. $ (11/2010)
2542 Canal St
504-822-0213 -
DOMILISE’S
This no-frills, old-fashioned po’boy sandwich shop is a hangout for the Uptown crowd, which relishes the seafood offerings, especially the mile-high fried shrimp po’boy. $ (11/2010)
5240 Annunciation St
504-899-9126 -
MIKE’S ON THE AVENUE
This gem, opened by Mike Fennelly and Vicky Bayley, features an expansive sushi bar with a spectacular salmon roll, made with cucumber, ginger oil, ponzu mayonnaise green onions and sesame seeds. Also try crawfish spring rolls with chili-lime sauce and the blackened tuna Napoleon with tamari vinaigrette. $$$ (11/2010)
628 St. Charles Ave
504-523-7600
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