📍 Lower Garden District, New Orleans
30 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 30 Restaurants
Coffee roasters, Southern kitchens, and a global casual run — Vietnamese, Colombian, sushi — along Magazine Street's lower stretch.
Top 10 in Lower Garden District
1
Beggars Banquet
A Lower Garden District spot on Prytania for cocktails and dinner, with weekend brunch and a daily happy hour at the bar. Reservations run through Resy, and the tight Wednesday-to-...
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2
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, fo...
88
3
Gris-Gris
Gris-Gris is a Southern and Creole restaurant on Magazine Street in the Lower Garden District from New Orleans native chef Eric Cook. Opened in 2018, it serves dishes including the...
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4
French Truck Coffee
The bright-yellow flagship on Magazine Street is where New Orleans' own roaster got going, and it still sets the city's specialty-coffee bar. The room is small and no-frills, the e...
87
5
Lilly's Cafe
The family-run Vietnamese counter that anchors the Lower Garden District's stretch of Magazine Street. Lilly Vuong runs the room while her husband and mother keep the kitchen going...
87
6
Stein's Market and Deli
Dan Stein's Magazine Street counter is where the Lower Garden District goes for a serious Jewish-Italian deli sandwich, and the line out the door tells you why. The Reuben and the ...
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7
Koru
Koru brought a serious omakase to the Lower Garden District in 2025, and roughly seven in ten guests put themselves in the chef's hands. Owners Tam Nguyen and chef Yiyu Weng run dr...
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8
Maïs Arepas
The arepa is the whole point at this Lower Garden District Colombian kitchen on Carondelet, where corn cakes come stuffed with shredded beef, pulled pork, or chicken and avocado. T...
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9
The Avenue Pub
The Avenue Pub has anchored the Lower Garden District since 1987, serving beer nobody else in town can get instead of chasing trends. Forty-plus rotating taps, a toy streetcar circ...
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10
District Donuts Sliders Brew
The Magazine Street original where small-batch donuts share the counter with sliders and locally roasted coffee. Three staples hold down the case — glazed, cinnamon sugar, chocolat...
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All 30 Restaurants in Lower Garden District
Here Today Rotisserie
86
Tito's Ceviche & Pisco
86
Pêche
86
Two Chicks Cafe
86
Restaurant Rebirth
86
Sidecar Patio & Oyster Bar
86
Bisutoro on Magazine
86
The Rusty Nail
86
HiVolt Coffee
86
Lula Restaurant Distillery
85
Mojo Coffee House
84
Debbie Does Doberge
84
Galliano
84
GAIA Seafood & Steakhouse
84
La Carreta
84
The Den
84
Jack Rose
83
San Lorenzo
82
Garden District Pub
81
Hoshun
80
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