St Charles Streetcar line, New Orleans, 6 Oct 2022
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CreoleSouthern$$$

Camellia Row

Garden DistrictNew Orleans

8.4

A Garden District mansion porch where the old canon gets a careful update: turtle soup finished tableside with sherry, gulf fish amandine, cochon de lait with cane gastrique, all under ceiling fans doing slow rotations. The Friday lunch — a two-hour institution with martinis — is the city's best introduction to how New Orleans treats an afternoon. Prices have drifted upward faster than the kitchen has evolved; stick to the classics and you'll leave happy.

Order this

  • Turtle soup au sherry
  • Gulf fish amandine
  • Friday martini lunch

The dishes reviewers keep coming back for. Ordering off-list is on you.

The practical bit

Getting a table

Reserve if you can — walk-ins wait

Dietary

vegetarian (limited but real)

Neighborhood

Garden District, New Orleans

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