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CajunSandwiches$ Local favorite

Tante Mel's Po-Boys

BywaterNew Orleans

8.9

A Bywater corner store counter where the fried-shrimp po-boy comes dressed — lettuce, tomato, pickle, mayo — on bread with the right shatter, and the roast beef version drips debris gravy down to your elbow, as certified by the napkin count. Order at the register, eat at the two sidewalk tables or take it to Crescent Park. Cash only, closed Mondays, and when they sell out of bread around 3pm, that's that.

Order this

  • Fried shrimp po-boy, dressed
  • Roast beef po-boy with debris
  • Zapp's and a Barq's

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

The practical bit

Getting a table

Walk in — no reservation, no fuss

Dietary

No real accommodations here — better to know now than at the table.

Neighborhood

Bywater, New Orleans

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