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746 Tchoupitoulas St., New Orleans 70130
504-581-1103

Tommy's Cuisine

This CBD stalwart serves credible Italian and French food in an elegant setting, but the real star is the adjacent wine bar. Somehow intimate and outsized at the same time, its nearly-black oak bar... read more

333 Poydras St., New Orleans 70130
504-525-9444

W

The W puts the L.A. in Nola. Like its sister hotels, its rooms and lobby boasts striking colors and sharp angles, all of it easy on the eye. Whiskey Blue and Zoe's--a cerulean wonder of a bar and a... read more

930 Tchoupitoulas St., New Orleans 70130
504-588-2123

Cochon

Cochon has captured the hearts of every overweight pork addict in New Orleans. The unpretentious menu from owner Donald Link boasts pork ribs, ham hocks, hogshead cheese and pork gumbo, but the oth... read more

535 Tchoupitoulas St., New Orleans 70130
504-527-5271

Ambassador Hotel

Sure, folks have had bad experiences here, just like some have had bad experiences at the Ritz. But there's a lot more character in the Ambassador than at most budget hotels, and no Red Roof Inn ha... read more

301 Tchoupitoulas St., New Orleans 70130
504-299-9777

Restaurant August

Restaurants generally referred to as "the best in the city" generate a fair amount of controversy among foodies, and August is no exception. But when you're king, you're in the crosshairs, so there... read more

800 Tchoupitoulas St., New Orleans 70130
504-528-9393

Emeril's

Like Lagasse's other two New Orleans restaurants, the menu's ranginess defies easy classification, but there's a general theme of Southern-styled, highly caloric comfort food with the Lagasse signa... read more

300 Gravier St., New Orleans 70130
888-596-0955

Windsor Court Hotel

A block from the Quarter, this upscale hotel, which recently emerged from a top-to-bottom, $22 million renovation, packs enough class between its walls that you might forget you're in New Orleans. ... read more

817 Common St., New Orleans 70112
504-412-2580

MiLa

As close to a cutting edge restaurant as New Orleans gets, married co-owners Allison Vines-Rushing (a James Beard award winner) and Slade Rushing work a cerebral take on contemporary Creole food wi... read more

800 S. Peters St., New Orleans 70130
504-525-3474

Rio Mar

Even New Orleanians do the tapas thing, and Rio Mar handles the assignment with greater elan than any other place in the city. The digs are spare - brick wall, tile floor, wood bar - but this lack ... read more

828 S. Peters St., New Orleans 70130
504-528-8282

Republic New Orleans

A House of Blues for the hipsters pushing middle-age, Republic offers a lounge-y, relaxed atmosphere when it isn't booking AAA artists like Conor Oberst and Neko Case. Older New Orleans scenesters ... read more

1100 Tulane Ave., New Orleans 70112
504-587-3737

Ampersand

Located in an industrial space that was once one of the city's biggest banks, this überchic boite looks like it was airlifted from South Beach and plopped into New Orleans' Central Business Di... read more

123 Baronne St., New Orleans 70112
504.648.1200

The Sazerac Bar

Arguably the most storied bar in New Orleans, The Roosevelt Hotel's main watering hole is inarguably its most beautiful. Walnut walls alternate with massive murals depicting Big Easy city life by N... read more

701 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans 70130
504-524-4114

Herbsaint

Donald Link's popular restaurant melds the dirty rice traditions of Cajun cooking with the elegance of French cuisine in an atmosphere that splits the difference between the bedlam of Bourbon Stree... read more

123 Baronne St., New Orleans 70112
504-648-6020

Domenica

For a town that happened to be the first place the Sicilian mafia set up shop, New Orleans seems underserved in the Italian food department. That's why this new venture from veteran Nola genius Joh... read more