Oysters
Drago's
Charbroiled oysters. Butter, garlic, parmesan, a shell you will burn your fingers on. This is the dish the videos are copying.
Warehouse District$$$
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Seafood
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Oysters
Acme Oyster House
Raw on the half shell at the Quarter's loudest oyster bar. Touristy, and still the right place if you want the classic stand-up order.
French Quarter$$
Oysters
Felix's
Across from Acme, slightly less theater, same Gulf oysters. A useful split when one line is cruel.
French Quarter$$
Seafood
Pêche
Wood fire, Gulf fish, a seafood restaurant that locals still claim. Catfish, oysters, and a menu that changes with the boats.
Warehouse District$$$
Seafood
GW Fins
The dressed-up fish dinner. When you want one serious seafood room that is not a boil poured on butcher paper.
French Quarter$$$$
Oysters
Bourbon House
A calmer oyster room at the head of Bourbon, with a serious raw bar. One block of Bourbon, then leave.
French Quarter$$$
Seafood
Superior Seafood
A St. Charles dining room for a long seafood lunch after the streetcar. Boils, platters, and a porch energy without the Quarter.
Uptown$$$
Seafood boil
New Orleans Cajun Seafood
The casual boil: shrimp, crab, corn, potato, spilled onto the table. This is the video. It is not a white-tablecloth version.
7th Ward$$
Cajun
Cochon
Cajun cooking with a butcher's sense of humor. The oyster roast and the fried rabbit are the plates people fly home describing.
Warehouse District$$$
Poboy
Parkway Bakery & Tavern
The roast-beef poboy people argue about, dressed, falling apart on the paper. A neighborhood tavern that earned the reputation.
Mid-City$$
Poboy
Domilise's
A side-street poboy window that has been dressing shrimp for generations. No scene. Just the sandwich.
Uptown$
Cajun supper
Mosquito Supper Club
A set-menu Cajun supper at a communal table. You do not order. You sit down and get the coast the way a family cooks it.
Uptown$$$$
Sports bar
Cooter Brown's
The long-running watch bar where the streetcar turns at the river. Huge beer list, raw oysters, and a room that knows the Saints schedule better than a hotel concierge.
Carrollton$$