📍 Central Business District, New Orleans
50 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 50 Restaurants
Fine-dining Creole rooms, historic hotel cocktail bars, and river-adjacent seafood between the convention halls and downtown high-rises.
Top 10 in Central Business District
1
Herbsaint
Donald Link's flagship, open on St. Charles Avenue since 2000 and the anchor of his restaurant group. The kitchen turns out contemporary French-Southern cooking with rustic Italian...
92
2
Restaurant August
John Besh's CBD flagship occupies a 19th-century French-Creole building on Tchoupitoulas, and it has set the bar for grand New Orleans dining for over two decades. The potato gnocc...
92
3
Miss River
Alon Shaya's grand-dining room on the lobby level of the Four Seasons, where Louisiana classics get the full white-tablecloth treatment. The whole buttermilk fried chicken is carve...
90
4
Olive
Olive is a Mediterranean counter on Carondelet in the CBD built around pickup and delivery rather than a sit-down room. The kitchen runs the familiar eastern-Mediterranean spread —...
90
5
Loa
Loa occupies the ground floor of the International House Hotel, a boutique property near the French Quarter, where creative director Alan Walter built the cocktail list around seve...
90
6
The Sazerac Bar
Inside the Roosevelt in the CBD, this is the room that gave the city's signature cocktail its home — the hotel acquired the rights to the Sazerac in 1949 and moved the bar here. Th...
89
7
Lufu Nola
Aman Kota and Sarthak Samantray ran Indian pop-ups before they and chef Sachin Darade opened this brick-and-mortar on St. Charles in the CBD, and Michelin handed it a Bib Gourmand ...
89
8
Zesty Creole
A Canal Street Creole spot working breakfast through late-night, Zesty Creole runs traditional New Orleans plates in a casual room. Shrimp creole, jambalaya, fried green tomatoes, ...
88
9
Snapper's Seafood & Cajun Restaurant
A casual Cajun-Creole seafood house on Canal Street, steps from Bourbon, working the gulf-coast playbook of oysters, gumbo, po'boys and platters. The kitchen's signatures run to re...
88
10
Lux Cafe
A small breakfast and brunch cafe in the CBD, tucked into the Exchange Center's first floor and built around Southern comfort and New Orleans flavor. The plates lean sweet and rich...
88
All 50 Restaurants in Central Business District
Bésame
88
Fourth Wall
88
Delacroix
87
Chapter IV
87
Mammoth Espresso
86
Couvant
86
Pho Tau Bay
86
Caf
86
Acme Oyster House
86
Fogo de Chão
86
Namaste NOLA
86
Copper Vine
86
Hot N Cajun Boil House
86
Espresso Coffee & Pastry Co.
86
Streetcar Cafe
86
Majoria's Commerce Restaurant
86
Voodoo Two
86
Crescent Counter
86
little bar on gravier
85
Maypop
84
Forbidden Pizza
84
Drip Affogato Bar
84
Charles & Julia
84
Luke
84
Red Fish Grill
84
Blue Bayou Restaurant & Oyster Bar
84
Gallier's Seafood & Oyster Bar
84
Trenasse
84
Bread and Butter Café
84
Mr. Ed's Po-Boy Shop
84
Kenji Omakase
84
Hobnobber's Variety Bar & Restaurant
84
Café Bon Ami
84
Ghost Bar
84
Bon Ton Prime Rib
83
Peck's Seafood
82
Backspace Bar & Kitchen
82
Baroness on Baronne
82
Creole House Restaurant & Oyster Bar
78
The Jimani
78
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