📍 Metairie, New Orleans

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 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...

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...

A French-Vietnamese bakery-cafe on Clearview Parkway in Metairie, where the croissant case sits next to Vietnamese coffee and bubble tea. The baking leans classic French — almond c...