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Nola Jane Restaurant & Bar · LoDo
A LoDo bar and restaurant built around New Orleans staples, chicken and sausage gumbo, shrimp and grits, blackened alligator, and po'boys, poured alongside Hurricanes on a lively Market Street patio. A downtown outpost for Crescent City cooking with a cocktail bent.
Lincoln's Roadhouse · Platt Park
A blues bar and Cajun cafe on South Pearl that has slung Cajun popcorn, red beans and rice, and King Cake daiquiris with weekend live music since 1999, one of the city's longest-running Louisiana food-and-music combinations, where the stage and the kitchen have shared equal billing for more than two decades in Platt Park.
Nola Voodoo Tavern · Cole
New Orleans native chef Henry Batiste has served his family's Crescent City recipes on Bruce Randolph Avenue since 2015, channeling home through gumbo and Cajun standards in a neighborhood tavern. The room stays loose and personal, closer to a corner bar than a themed restaurant.
Poboys Creole Cafe · Edgewater
A compact Edgewater cafe built on po'boys, fried gator and blackened shrimp among them, plus Creole staples like crawfish etouffee, gumbo, and jambalaya. A small kitchen focused on Louisiana comfort food without the theatrics of a bigger room, the kind of counter regulars return to for a reliable bowl of gumbo.