Restaurants in New Orleans, LA

New Orleans has 2,839 places in this guide, 1,848 of them restaurants. Cafes number 289, bars 565 and quick service spots 125. Bars (553), coffee shops and cafes (296) and southern and soul food (275) are the top categories in the listings.

At 78.3 places per ten thousand residents, New Orleans sits well above the 41.8 median across all cities.

2,380 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (38), PJ's Coffee (29), Starbucks (17) and McDonald's (17).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, New Orleans ranks #13 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in New Orleans by cuisine

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