📍 Mid-City, New Orleans

Chef Isaac Toups, a Rayne, Louisiana native and Top Chef alum, opened this Mid-City spot with his wife Amanda in 2012. The contemporary Cajun menu is all about house-cured and smok...

A New Orleans institution since 1905, Angelo Brocato has been spinning Sicilian gelato and rolling cannoli on N. Carrollton in Mid-City since it left the French Quarter in 1979. Th...

The city's oldest family-owned steakhouse, going since 1934 on N. Broad, and the place that pinned the New Orleans steak style to the menu: prime beef seared and sent out sizzling ...

Melissa Araujo cooks the Honduran food she grew up on — hand-pressed pupusas, baleadas folded around eggs and refried beans, plates of carne asada with sweet plantains. After a lea...

The Canal Street Creole-Italian room that's been feeding Mid-City since the family turned a pool hall into a restaurant in 1932. Come for turtle soup, shrimp remoulade, and an Ital...

What started as a 2012 backyard-and-pop-up operation is now Mid-City's standby for proper smoked meat, parked near City Park on N. Carrollton. The brisket comes chopped or sliced, ...

A modern seafood market and restaurant on N. Carrollton in Mid-City from Marcus Jacobs and Caitlin Carney with the Carmo team, run day-to-day by the self-styled Lady Mongers. The c...

Chef Scot Craig's corner of Iberville Street has been Mid-City's scratch-made Creole comfort kitchen since the Craig family took it over in 1993, and Guy Fieri put it on Diners, Dr...

Chris and Bonnie Borges opened this European-leaning neighborhood bistro on City Park Avenue in Mid-City in fall 2025, running all day from breakfast through dinner. The kitchen pl...

Lisa Nelson brings Trinidad and Tobago to a warm, flag-draped Mid-City room on D'Hemecourt. The doubles are the calling card — she taught herself for a year and a half before putti...