Louisiana

• New Orleans

  What hasn’t been said about New Orleans…it’s a super fun, party-loving historic city rich in literary, musical, and culinary tradition, populated by friendly folks who know how to eat heartily and have a damn good time. It’s where streetcars chug past live oaks dripping with Spanish moss and Mardi Gras beads, where you’re never far from the strains of street music, where university students and po’boys meet voodoo magic and old-timey Cajun folk dances. It’s home to drive-through daiquiri joints and smoky, under-the-radar dive bars that dish out incredible food. It’s the survivor of an unbelievable 2005 catastrophe, a massive engineering failure that’s forever left its scars—and the damage still looms large outside the range of most tourists’ bloodshot eyes.

  It’s been a long, slow slog upward from that devastating place, and visitors are still appreciated for doing their part to keep the town humming. But at the end of the day, the neon lights on Bourbon will never dim; the live music on Frenchmen Street won’t ever quit; and the delicious hybridized food of the Crescent City—a cuisine born centuries ago when French dishes mingled with African cooking styles and New World ingredients, then met with French-Acadian (Cajun), Spanish, Anglo, and Italian influence—will always invite giddy gluttony. Much like the city itself, these foods are rich in history, flavor, and lore; they’re bold, proud, even defiant at times...especially where butter is concerned.

  Click below to find 42 of the best, most iconic dishes in NOLA.

  What hasn’t been said about New Orleans…it’s a super fun, party-loving historic city rich in literary, musical, and culinary tradition, populated by friendly folks who know how to eat heartily and have a damn good time. It’s where streetcars chug past live oaks dripping with Spanish moss and Mardi Gras beads, where you’re never far from the strains of street music, where university…   Read more

   

  Find local foods in New Orleans.

  BBQ shrimp

  Beignets (and café au lait)

  Bloody Mary

  Boiled crawfish or shrimp

  Bread pudding

• User Content

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  Huckabuck Frozen Cup

  Gretna
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  King Cake

  New Orleans
  melissabarry
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  Eggs Cochon

  New Orleans
  lani
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  Alligator Hash

  New Orleans
  lani

• • Australians visit for Jazz Fest and Food

    andrewmck
    New Orleans
    

    Just arrived back in Australia after 5 amazing days in New Orleans, visited many of the EYW recommendations. Went to last 2 days of Jazz Fest, which was incredible, saw Bruce Springsteen, John…    Read more

  • Po'boy Showdown

    eblech
    New Orleans
    Jazz Fest NOLA has got to be one of the best annual music festivals held in the USA. In addition to all the jazz, blues and gospel on offer, there are amazing food stalls set up across the festiva…    Read more

• Blog Posts

• Q&A: John Simmons, Sixth-Generation Tabasco Maker, Louisiana

  “People across the world associate Tabasco sauce with the very unique, flavorful food culture found here in Louisiana, and we’re honored to be a part of that.”  —John Simmons, tabasco pepper expert, McIlhenny…   Read more

• Crawfish Boil How-To

  Photo courtesy of Chris Davis Crawfish boils are a springtime rite of passage in southern Louisiana, whether you’re in a bar, at a festival, or in a friend’s backyard. I’ll never forget the boil we went to, at New…   Read more

• Now on Kindle: New Orleans Food & Travel Guide!

  It’s no secret that we love New Orleans—the food, the cocktails, the music, the attitude. So it’s with great pleasure that we release NOLA as our sixth destination guide on Kindle, with newly updated content thanks to a recent…   Read more

• New Orleans: Too Many Cocktails, Too Little Time

  A recent jaunt through NOLA had one of our friends pronounce, at the end of a long night, "I think I've drunk every drink this town has to offer." Did she, though? (She was still standing, so it's highly unlikely!) It's…   Read more

• Recipes From Afar: Crawfish Étouffée (New Orleans)

  In this new EYW Blog series, our writers will feature recipes of dishes they’ve encountered while away and re-created at home.  A few gluttonous days in New Orleans are hard to beat, but while you can’t bring home the…   Read more