📍 Gentilly, New Orleans

A seafood restaurant on Elysian Fields Avenue in Gentilly, leaning on fresh-cooked, made-to-order plates. Casual and neighborhood-facing, open late most nights of the week.

Afrodisiac is a Jamaican restaurant on Franklin Avenue in Gentilly, blending Jamaican and Louisiana cooking. The menu runs to Jerk Chicken, a Jamaican Fried Fish Sandwich, and Jerk...

A neighborhood bar and grill on Elysian Fields in Gentilly, trading in frozen daiquiris and casual plates. The kind of low-key local spot you stop into for a drink to go or a quick...

A Gentilly seafood market on St. Anthony Avenue, the kind of corner spot New Orleanians rely on for boiled crawfish, fresh Gulf catch, and po-boys to go. Counter service, neighborh...

A chicken-wing counter on Elysian Fields Avenue in Gentilly, Wings Up 1 keeps it simple: fried wings by the order, sauced and quick. A neighborhood takeout pick for a wing fix rath...

A family-run bakery on Paris Avenue in Gentilly that runs hard at king cake season, turning out double-filled and supreme cakes in a half-dozen styles from Twelfth Night to Mardi G...

A Gentilly soul-food and Creole kitchen on Frenchmen Street, open since 2013 and trading in seafood-forward comfort plates. Regulars come for the salmon alfredo pasta, crawfish mac...

A soul food kitchen on Gentilly Boulevard, Riteway serves the home-style plates that anchor a New Orleans neighborhood lunch. It pulls a steady 4.4 from regulars who come for fair ...

The New Orleans outpost of the Krab Kingz seafood-boil franchise, set in a Gentilly strip on Franklin Ave. The format is build-your-own boil bags — crab, shrimp, sausage and corn d...

A Gentilly catfish specialist on Paris Avenue built on a family fish-farming tradition, serving fresh catfish from a Wednesday-to-Saturday window. A counter-and-takeout operation f...