Magazine Street is a jewel of an avenue, a treasure trove of hotels, dining, and retail that stretches some six miles from Canal Street in the CBD to Uptown and Audubon Park. Dotted with independent and family-owned businesses, Magazine is a sure bet for cocktailing, eating inside or outside, and strolling in search of the perfect gift. It’s impossible to list every restaurant along the street, with its range of po’ boy joints to high-end fine dining. This taste of the major shopping thoroughfare starts around Louisiana Avenue and follows the river Uptown, but you can’t go wrong any way you turn.
Where to Eat Along Magazine Street
All the best restaurants lining the major thoroughfare from Louisiana Avenue to Audubon Park
New to the map: Social, Osteria Lupa, Really Really Nice Wines, and the Kingsway. Locations are listed from east to west.
Where to Eat Along Magazine Street
All the best restaurants lining the major thoroughfare from Louisiana Avenue to Audubon Park
Magazine Street is a jewel of an avenue, a treasure trove of hotels, dining, and retail that stretches some six miles from Canal Street in the CBD to Uptown and Audubon Park. Dotted with independent and family-owned businesses, Magazine is a sure bet for cocktailing, eating inside or outside, and strolling in search of the perfect gift. It’s impossible to list every restaurant along the street, with its range of po’ boy joints to high-end fine dining. This taste of the major shopping thoroughfare starts around Louisiana Avenue and follows the river Uptown, but you can’t go wrong any way you turn.
New to the map: Social, Osteria Lupa, Really Really Nice Wines, and the Kingsway. Locations are listed from east to west.
Really Really Nice Wines
Yes, RRNW is a natural wine shop. But it’s also a showcase for chef Luci Winsberg’s creative nibbles. Besides a local oyster program, her menu might include charcuterie and cheese, warm creamy white beans with grilled artichokes, anchovies on toast, and a swell plate of mortadella and burrata. This is food that screams for a good bottle of wine.
Lilette
One of New Orleans’s classic French restaurants, Lilette is a romantic stunner, perfect for date night patio dining under the stars. An order of escargot with mushrooms is mandatory, and the grilled hanger steak frites with marrowed bordelaise is a dreamy entree. But the unbeatable atmosphere is the real reason to visit — sexy, relaxing, and dazzling.
Lilette
Bouligny Tavern
This longtime date night hub is another winner from chef John Harris of Lilette, with an inviting grown-up menu of bistro favorites. Gougères with gruyere, fried Brussels with apple pepper jelly, duck confit with greens and charcuterie — try it all. Bouligny Tavern’s winning drinks menu is locally inspired — try the ¡Viva Zapata! with jalapeño tequila and mezcal for a citrus-forward double whammy.
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Baru Bistro & Tapas
There’s a lot to like about the bold global flavors served at this bright Latin Caribbean-inspired bistro. Crudos and ceviche are a specialty at Baru, along with chef Edgar Caro’s habit-forming tapas like cornmeal-crusted local oysters with herb aioli and caramelized onions, and marinated skirt steak slathered with chimichurri. Don’t miss the ham croquetas with bechamel and Manchego crema.
Pomelo
Chef Aom Srisuk opened Pomelo in 2021, a small jewel box of Thai cuisine that she followed up with the seafood-centric Good Catch in the CBD in 2024. But Pomelo is a sweet spot, the chef’s tribute to her home country that includes familiar noodle dishes and curries along with specials that speak more to Thai street food. Pok pok noodles is a frequent special, chewy glass noodles tossed with roasted barbecue pork shoulder, baby bok choy, peanuts, and chiles.
Pomelo
Saffron
This James Beard-nominated restaurant and Eater New Orleans 2017 Restaurant of the Year deserves the accolades. Against a stylish backdrop, diners can sample a complex cocktail program informed by Indian spices and herbs, some of the best char-grilled oysters in town (maybe it’s the curry leaf), and sophisticated dishes that marry Indian gastronomy with local ingredients. And be sure to try the Saffron Old Fashioned — it’s the top-selling cocktail at the restaurant. The curried gumbo swimming with Gulf seafood is epic.
Josh Brasted
The Kingsway
Chef Aswin Vilkhu is the talent behind the Kingsway, the prix-fixe, four course pan-Asian restaurant he opened across the street from his family’s flagship restaurant Saffron in 2025. Diners fill in their own dishes for a four course, $95 menu with dishes like the cold chili crab noodles and cumin lamb. Vilkhu channels his childhood favorites here, bold dishes of Malaysian, Chinese, and Vietnamese cuisine his father chef Arvinder Vilkhu taught him to make as a kid. You can also sit at the bar and order from a separate al a carte menu with some of the same greatest hits.
The Kingsway
Hungry Eyes
After conquering breakfast and lunch, Mason Hereford and team leaned into the ’80s with Hungry Eyes, an upbeat dinner and drinks spot with a particular point of view. Starting October 1, the restaurant is going reservations only with a four course, $70 tasting menu, though walk-ins are still welcome to order a la carte at the bar or on the patio. The current menu includes dishes like artichoke on the half shell, pickled shrimp tostada, and a pork chop with fried Brussels sprouts. The food is designed to complement the drinks, and Hungry Eyes mixes a menu of classic martinis and not-so-classic cocktail creations.
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Shaya
Chef Fariz Choumali steers the ship at Shaya, the Mediterranean restaurant that features mezze with serious hummus upgrades, such as a topping of Tunisian spiced fried chicken thigh and lamb ragu. Wood-fired pita accompanies the starters for dipping, fragrant puffs of bread that are impossible to resist. The coriander chile butter elevates the spiced hanger steak to lofty heights.
Shaya
La Petite Grocery
La Petite Grocery, a former 19th-century neighborhood grocery, was transformed by owner-chefs Justin Devillier and his wife, Mia, in 2010. In their 15th year, Devillier, a Best Chef: South James Beard Award winner, continues to spin traditional New Orleans cuisine with dishes like turtle Bolognese and blue crab beignets. The paneed rabbit with spaetzle, wilted greens, turnip puree, and a caper-forward sauce grenobloise is a house specialty.
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Casamento’s
It doesn’t get more New Orleans than Casamento’s, a cash-only spot serving fresh oysters and other seafood in a compact, mosaic-tiled space since 1919. Casamento’s does a bang-up job with fried seafood, shrimp, oyster, and catfish loafs, half or whole, and of course raw and charbroiled oysters. After its usual summer break, Casamento’s reopens October 1. The recording on their voicemail says this is looking like their last year. So go before they ain’t there no more. Casamento’s is a classic for a reason.
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La Boulangerie
Chef Maggie Scales oversees the pastry program for the Link Restaurant Group and co-owns this wonderful French bakery, with its menu of toothsome breads, pastries, and sandwiches. Try the avocado toast, grilled cheese, or the L’Atlantique — toasted olive bread loaded with smoked salmon, lemon mayonnaise, avocado, and arugula — but save room for dessert, to stay or to go. La Boulangerie offers a back courtyard and sidewalk tables for outdoor dining.
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Osteria Lupo
Owners Reno De Rani and chef Brian Burns expanded into Northern Italy from their Spanish restaurant Costera, bringing house-made pasta and the real taste of Italy to Magazine Street Uptown. The wood-fired oven features prominently: Look for smoky goodness in wood-fired oysters with Calabrian chile, pizza, steak, and lamb chops. The bar offers Italian wines, beer, and cocktails, along with specialty cocktails including a smooth Negroni Bianco.
Osteria Lupo
Guy’s Po-Boys
Refuel from strolling and shopping at this petite Uptown lunch staple that’s been around since 1992. Find well-seasoned fillings stuffed inside loaves slathered with mayo and topped with pickles, lettuce, tomato, and ketchup. Indeed, the fried shrimp po’ boy is one of the best the city has to offer (there’s also a very good grilled shrimp po’ boy).
Saba
Alon Shaya’s Saba is the chef’s flagship ode to the brilliant and varied Israeli culinary landscape. Get every single spread — they are all amazing, served with puffs of sourdough pita hot from the wood-burning oven. The vegetable dishes are equally stellar, especially the whole-roasted cauliflower with whipped feta, great with any kebab. The parent company Pomegranate Hospitality recently expanded to Lakeview with Safta’s Table, an all-day casual restaurant perfect for the whole family.
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Wishing Town Restaurant & Bakery
Discover Wishing Town at the corner of Nashville and Magazine and find a charming outdoor setting to enjoy an array of dim sum. The soup, cold noodle salad, and dumpling options are never-ending, like scallop and shrimp; crawfish; onion and beef; crispy fried chicken; and char siu tofu pockets. Don’t forget to load up on cakes and pastries, gift-worthy in their own right. There’s a fruit-adorned Wishing Cake, Japanese cheesecake, pink strawberry Chantilly cake, rainbow crepe cake, puff pastries, and much more. Now serving wine, beer, and sake. There’s a location on Severn in Metairie too.
Wishing Town Restaurant & Bakery
Bistro Daisy
Give your inner Francophile a treat with the French offerings at Bistro Daisy. Set in a sweet New Orleans cottage with a handsome side gallery, the restaurant showcases chef Anton Schulte’s elegant take on the likes of grilled filet with truffled demi-glace and crispy leg of duck confit and roasted breast slices over roasted mushroom choucroute. Lemon creamsicle baked Alaska with raspberry coulis for dessert? Yes please.
Taqueria Corona
Taqueria Corona is a smart sit-down bet for families and anybody craving Mexican specialties like rib-eye carne asada. That rib-eye shows up in the tasty Philly cheesesteak taco, and there are other options including crispy Baja-style fish, pulled pork, and traditional spicy beef tongue. The house margarita is a good deal, made with fresh lime juice.
Social
Founded by Dulce and Omar Lugo and their Peruvian chef and partner Adolfo Gosalvez, Social showcases the best of Japanese Peruvian Nikkei cuisine in a stunning Uptown setting. Tiradito and ceviche are two of the restaurant’s specialties, sometimes paired with Peru’s national sauce, leche de tigre, the milky white marinade of lime juice, aromatics, and chiles. Arroz con mariscos is Peru’s answer to seafood paella.
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