📍 Little Woods, New Orleans

Traditional New Orleans cooking inside the restored art-deco terminal at Lakefront Airport, with a view of the working runway. Mornings bring chicken and waffles and shrimp and gri...

A New Orleans East food truck dealing in over-the-top Cajun-seafood comfort food. The draws are the lobster grilled cheese, crawfish grilled cheese, and seafood reloaded fries — ri...

A Southern restaurant on the I-10 service road in the Little Woods section of New Orleans East. The kitchen turns out home-style Southern cooking for a neighborhood crowd — an ever...

A bar and grill out on Hayne Boulevard in New Orleans East, serving casual grill fare in a relaxed neighborhood setting. A local sit-down-or-takeout spot rather than a destination ...

A New Orleans East barbecue counter best known as the home of the cochon de lait po-boy that draws lines at Jazz Fest. Walker's runs a tight Thursday-Friday window off the Read Bou...

Bullard Seafood and Grill is a Cajun-Creole seafood spot in New Orleans East's Little Woods, serving fried fish and seafood plates for lunch and dinner alongside Southern sides. Th...

A Little Woods donut shop on Downman Road in New Orleans East, doing the early-morning fried-dough-and-coffee routine plus a short plate-lunch menu. A no-frills neighborhood stop f...

A lakefront seafood house on Hayne Boulevard in New Orleans East, working the Gulf-seafood-and-Creole tradition that defines this stretch of the lake. Fried platters, po'boys, and ...