😎 Best Casual Dining in New Orleans
113 casual dining spots in New Orleans, scored and ranked for 2026.
🍽️ Open Interactive GuideTop 10 Casual Dining Spots
1
Acamaya
Sisters Ana and Lydia Castro give Gulf seafood the Mexico City treatment in a Bywater room, pulling from childhood trips to the capital's mariscos markets. The mostly-pescatarian menu runs hamachi tos...
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2
Hansen's Sno-Bliz
The Uptown sno-ball institution that's been shaving ice on Tchoupitoulas Street since 1939, still run by the founding family on the original block-ice machine Ernest Hansen built. The James Beard Foun...
91
3
Cochon
Donald Link and Stephen Stryjewski's love letter to southwest-Louisiana Cajun cooking, in a converted Warehouse District warehouse since 2006. The namesake cochon comes crisped with cracklins; the fri...
90
4
Central Grocery & Deli
This is where the muffuletta was born in 1906, and the Decatur Street counter still treats it like scripture: round seeded loaf, layers of Italian cold cuts and cheese, and the briny olive salad that ...
90
5
Turkey and the Wolf
Mason Hereford turned childhood comfort food into a cult sandwich shop in the Irish Channel, and Bon Appetit crowned it the #1 Best New Restaurant in America in 2017. Get the fried-bologna sandwich bu...
89
6
Willie Mae's NOLA
The Willie Mae's name goes back to Willie Mae Seaton's 1957 Treme fried-chicken room — a James Beard America's Classics winner routinely called the best fried chicken in the country. After a 2023 fire...
89
7
Fritai
Chef Charly Pierre's Treme spot makes the case for Haitian cooking as a missing piece of the New Orleans story, and the kitchen backs it up. Get the kabrit, twice-cooked goat over rice and beans with ...
89
8
Chicken's Kitchen
Chef Marlon "Chicken" Williams runs a lunch-only soul food counter on the West Bank that draws people across the river and onto national lists. The menu changes daily, so you take what Willi...
89
9
Angelo Brocato
A New Orleans institution since 1905, Angelo Brocato has been spinning Sicilian gelato and rolling cannoli on N. Carrollton in Mid-City since it left the French Quarter in 1979. The cannoli shells are...
88
10
St. Pizza
A walk-up slice window on Magazine Street in the Lower Garden District that the NYT named one of the country's best pizzerias the year it opened. The slices are sourdough-based, foldable, East Coast i...
88
All 113 Casual Dining Spots in New Orleans
Port of Call
88
French Truck Coffee
87
Lilly's Cafe
87
Pizza Domenica
87
Picnic Provisions & Whiskey
87
Stein's Market and Deli
87
Blue Oak BBQ
87
Safta's Table
87
Vals
87
Porgy's Seafood Market
87
Budsi's Authentic Thai
87
La Boulangerie
87
Casimiro
87
Ba Mien
87
The Avenue Pub
87
Nighthawk Napoletana
86
District Donuts Sliders Brew
86
Queen Trini Lisa
86
Liuzza's Restaurant & Bar
86
Mammoth Espresso
86
Deanie's Seafood
86
Central City BBQ
86
Here Today Rotisserie
86
Pho Tau Bay
86
Frankie & Johnny's
86
St. Roch Market
85
Congregation Coffee Roasters
85
T'n Định
85
Moi Vietnamese Deli & Homestyle Cooking
85
Banh Mi Boys
85
Lebanon's Cafe
85
Cherry Coffee Roasters
85
Plum Street Snoballs
85
Dough Nguyener's
85
Cafe Malou
85
Sucré
85
Magasin Vietnamese Cafe
85
R&O's Restaurant
85
McHardy's Chicken & Fixin'
85
Clesi's Seafood Restaurant & Catering
85
Loretta's Authentic Pralines
85
Johnny's Po-Boys
85
Chada
85
Castnet Seafood
85
Guy's Po-Boys
85
AJ's Jazzy Grill
85
Jack Dempsey's Restaurant
85
little bar on gravier
85
Creole Creamery
84
Café Levant
84
Forbidden Pizza
84
Two Tony's Restaurant
84
Chi Chi's Chicken & Beer
84
Cafe Beignet
84
Shug's Bagels
84
Cleo's Mediterranean Cuisine & Grocery
84
Bear's PoBoys at Gennaro's
84
Imperial Woodpecker Sno-Balls
84
Piccola Gelateria
84
Drip Affogato Bar
84
Radosta's Po-boys
84
Theo's Neighborhood Pizza
84
La Macarena Pupuseria & Latin Cafe
84
Aunt Sally's Pralines
84
Norma's Sweets Bakery
84
Eat-Well Food Mart
84
Mojo Coffee House
84
Fico Cucina
84
Café Conmigo
84
Bonafried
84
The Orange Couch
84
Nine Roses
84
Kim Anh's Noodle House
84
Sammy's Food Service & Deli
84
Mona's Cafe
84
Debbie Does Doberge
84
Venezia
84
Mr Wolf Espresso
83
Lebanon Grill
83
Louisiana Pizza Kitchen
83
The Station Coffee Shop & Bakery
83
Sno-La Snowballs
83
Pandora's Snowballs
83
O.K. Ice Cream
83
Felipe's Taqueria
83
Satsuma Cafe
83
Adams Street Grocery & Deli
83
Le's Baguette Banh Mi Cafe
83
Southern Candymakers
83
Finnegan's Easy
83
Treme Coffeehouse
82
Chez Pierre French Bakery & Cafe
82
Peck's Seafood
82
Pond Coffee
82
Adrian's Bakery
82
Coma Arepas
82
The District Lounge
82
Acorn
82
Audubon Clubhouse
82
Garden District Pub
81
Flamingo A-Go-Go
81
Ernst Cafe
80
Patty's Burger Bar
80
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