📍 Metairie, New Orleans

Moxie Coffee & Espresso sits on Metairie Road, a small daily-grind counter built by longtime business partners Katie Barletta and Katie Bellerino — the same two who opened Glow...

A shoebox of a Metairie room where two Donald Link-trained chefs, David Rouse and Billy Jones, cook a tight chef-driven menu off an open kitchen. About a dozen dishes — shrimp scam...

A Japanese restaurant in Metairie with a strong local following, running lunch and dinner service alongside a dedicated omakase counter. The kitchen covers the full range, from sus...

A 17-seat sushi counter tucked inside Little Tokyo on Causeway in Metairie — once the karaoke room, now chef Seiji Nakano's omakase destination. Choose the four-course at $70 or th...

Chef Michael Gulotta's upscale Italian in Old Metairie, where his New Orleans-Sicilian upbringing meets the years he spent cooking in Liguria. The result is plates that pull from L...

The Randazzo name is shorthand for king cake in this town, and Manny's Metairie shop is the seasonal pilgrimage — a tight braid of cinnamon-laced Danish dough under glossy purple, ...

The Metairie pastry counter run by Jean-Luc Albin, a baker out of the French Alps, turning out the city's benchmark doberge. The cases hold eclairs, Napoleons, petit fours, chantil...

Bear's roast beef po-boy has a following on both sides of the lake, and the home base is a counter inside an old Metairie bar called Gennaro's. The roast beef is slow-cooked into g...

A half-century-old po-boy shop tucked by the railroad tracks in Old Metairie, Radosta's hit 50 years and changed hands without losing the plot. The house-made Italian sausage po-bo...

Gambino's has been turning out doberge cakes and king cakes from its Veterans Memorial flagship in Metairie since 1949. The doberge is the signature: six layers of buttermilk cake ...