West End Restaurants
Make a free reservation
Visa Dining Collection
Get exclusive access to primetime reservations and early access to special events at some of the country's hottest restaurants.
Book for lunch today in New Orleans / Louisiana
Introducing OpenTable Icons
New restaurants to OpenTable in New Orleans / Louisiana
Outdoor dining in New Orleans / Louisiana
See what locals rave about in West End
- MMaureenNew Orleans / Louisiana •4 reviews5.0Dined 3 days agoGreat food, great service, and lovely atmosphere!!More infoRalph's on the ParkPrice: Expensive• Creole• Mid-City / City Park•4.7
- MMICHELLEVIPNew Orleans / Louisiana •5 reviews5.0Dined 5 days agoService was fantastic! Ambience and food on par…lovely experience!More infoTanaPrice: Expensive• Contemporary Italian• Metairie•4.7
- PPaulGreater Boston •7 reviews5.0Dined 5 days agoStacy was a great server. Food was excellent. Location was awesome.More infoLandry’s Seafood House – New Orleans Lake PontchartrainPrice: Moderate• Seafood• Lakeview/Gentilly•4.5
- AArchbishop GregoryVIPNew Orleans / Louisiana •77 reviews5.0Dined 7 days agoWonderful meal. Very friendly service. One of my favorites. Try it.More infoDesi Vega's Seafood and SteaksPrice: Expensive• Steakhouse• Metairie•4.8
- YYorubaHouston •9 reviews5.0Dined on Mar 17, 2025This place was amazing the food was so good and the ambiance was good. I love the sweet potato beignet’s!!!! Yummy!! More infoMonday Restaurant + BarPrice: Expensive• American• Mid-City / City Park•4.6
Trending dishes in West End
Restaurant experiences trending in New Orleans / Louisiana
Get inspired by our collections of the top restaurants in West End
These 12 New Orleans restaurants crush the outdoor dining game
New Orleans’s best restaurants for outdoor dining come with breathtaking views, scenic streetside tables, and charming patios.
12 romantic restaurants ideal for date night in New Orleans
New Orleans knows how to treat its couples, whether that means a plush hotel lounge or a cozy family-owned favorite. For a chic first date, there’s a bar that pours 30 wines on tap. Anniversaries get an Amalfi Coast-inspired escape in a suave hotel. AI-powered art dials up the wow factor at an ultra-modern steakhouse. This guide pairs New Orleans restaurants with romantic occasions from first dates all the way to milestone anniversaries. These are New Orleans’s 12 best date-night restaurants.
12 stellar special-occasion restaurants in New Orleans
New Orleanians mark time by food seasons, not calendar flips. The hottest months belong to frozen daiquiris and technicolor snoballs. Spring brings families and friends together over spicy spreads of boiled crawfish. Carnival season is all about sweet and savory king cakes. In other words, in a city that puts food at the center of its life—and not just the center of the table—eating and drinking is always a special occasion. When it comes to celebrating a birthday, graduation, or just feeling alive in the Big Easy, the stage is set with buckets of seafood, cocktails in James Beard Award-winning bars, and grand dining rooms that have hosted generations of milestone events. Read on for a guide to the 12 best restaurants to book across New Orleans to get the party started.
The best places to grab a drink in New Orleans
New Orleans’s best bars range from high-end cocktail lounges to charming wine bars and tried-and-true neighborhood escapes.
14 restaurants vital to New Orleans
Together, these old and new restaurants offer a snapshot of the best of New Orleans dining right now.
4 Must-Book Restaurants in New Orleans
New Orleans’s restaurants are the beating heart of this festive city, and to say they’ve had a tough few years would be putting it mildly. The good news is that hospitality is calling again, and nobody does it better than the restaurateurs, chefs, servers, and bartenders that call the Big Easy home. Superior service continues to set New Orleans’s restaurant scene apart. Among the standouts, there’s a brand-new izakaya helmed by a meticulous executive chef who spent time in Japan and a Mid-City tapas bar that churns out a one-of-its-kind, afterhours brunch for the midnight munchies. Book one, book all, and be warmly welcomed at these four new restaurants, representing the best of New Orleans right now.