🍽️ Best Fine Dining in New Orleans
18 fine dining spots in New Orleans, scored and ranked for 2026.
🍽️ Open Interactive GuideTop 10 Fine Dining Spots
1
Dakar NOLA
Chef Serigne Mbaye runs a Senegalese tasting menu out of an Uptown cottage on Leonidas, threading his Dakar childhood through Gulf seafood and Louisiana produce. The pescatarian courses move from blac...
96
2
Emeril's
The 1990 flagship that built the Emeril Lagasse empire, now run by his son E.J., who reworks the elder's Louisiana canon into Classic, Seasonal, and Vegetarian tastings. The BBQ shrimp tarts and gumbo...
95
3
Commander's Palace
The turquoise Victorian at Washington and Coliseum has anchored the Garden District since 1893, dealing in New Haute Creole and full-tilt Louisiana hospitality. Order the turtle soup, the pecan-cruste...
95
4
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 gnocchi with blue crab an...
92
5
Bayona
Susan Spicer's French Quarter cottage has held its line since 1990, plating a globe-trotting menu that always circles back to Louisiana. The 200-year-old Creole building on Dauphine Street is all cand...
91
6
Pulcinella!
A homestyle Sicilian-Italian room in the Seventh Ward, steps from the French Quarter, where chef Matty Hayes cooks his family's recipes. Seafood cannelloni, eggplant parmesan, and a meatball that got ...
91
7
GW Fins
A French Quarter fine-dining seafood house run by the Wollerman family, where the menu changes daily around whatever the boats bring in. The lineup shifts constantly, but the marquee dishes hold: lobs...
90
8
Restaurant R'evolution
A French Quarter collaboration between chefs John Folse and Rick Tramonto inside the Royal Sonesta on Bienville Street. The kitchen runs classic Cajun and Creole through the lens of the cultures that ...
90
9
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 carved tableside; the red...
90
10
MaMou
On the Rampart Street edge of the French Quarter, MaMou is a modern European brasserie from chef Tom Branighan and sommelier Molly Wismeier, with a wine program that drives the room. The menu leans Fr...
90
All 18 Fine Dining Spots in New Orleans
The Kingsway
89
Saint Claire
89
Étoile
88
Studio
87
Orleans Grapevine Wine Bar and Bistro
86
Cafe Sbisa
84
Sushi by Us
82
Hungry Eyes
82
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