A Chef's Guide to New Orleans

Grab your guide now! 3 versions available with up to 40 chef-tested recommendations in New Orleans.

Get hungry, because your visit to the "Big Easy" is going to be big on indulgence.

From creative quick service to award winning fine dining, must visit back alley dives to swanky scenes...we have hand picked choices for you every step of the way.

New Orleans is a domestic city with a foreign feel, steeped in European colonial history and further enhanced by African and American influences. Nola honors tradition and celebrates creativity with every bowl of gumbo, every seafood stuffed po'boy and every amply-sugared pillowy beignet.

This vibrant city is buzzing 365 days a year with opportunities abound for fabulous food, drink and fun. Trust us, we supped, we sipped and we supped some more (leading to a half-hearted attempt at a diet cleanse once we returned home).

Our New Orleans food guides give you up to 40 chef-tested options for delicious destinations complete with gastronomic descriptions, tantalizing tips, and convenient Google Maps shortcuts (one click and 'poof' you'll have our Google maps loaded onto your device so you always know the tastiest spots nearby).

24 Hour Chef's Guide to Eating & Drinking New Orleans

Just one day to explore the tastes of New Orleans? Fear not, with this guide you get my top 9 picks for making the most out of your short New Orleans experience.

From a centuries old po'boy bar at lunchtime, to a James Beard award winning chef executing the perfect representation of creativity and creole, this guide is your must not miss list for the day. We even made sure to add the best spot to sip bourbon on Bourbon Street and an iconic sweet treat to your night cap.

This 24 Hour Chef's Guide includes 9 recommendations including:

• delicious dining recommendations (including our TOP recommendations for lunch and dinner)
• intoxicating spots for drinks (and snacks to help ward off the famous Bourbon Street blackouts/hangovers)
• our favorite non-eating activities (lol) to get the best sense of the culture and city in your limited available time.

When you buy, you get a downloadable/printable guide to all 9 destinations, plus our easy-to-install Google Maps overlay.

New release price!
Get the 24 Hour Chef's Guide to New Orleans for just $27 $17:

48 Hour Chef's Guide to Eating & Drinking New Orleans

Have a little more time to explore the best food and drink New Orleans has to offer?

19 chef-endorsed options await you: from regional cocktails served in the exact building where they were invented; to music venues pumping out Nola's best brass band jazz: to the best fried chicken in the entire United States (YUP!); to a unique restaurant located inside an actual museum honoring Southern food and beverages and the people behind it. PLUS the restaurant serving the world's best creole and soul food.

This 48 Hour Chef's Guide includes

• delicious dining recommendations (including our TOP recommendations for lunch and dinner)
• intoxicating spots for drinks (and snacks to help ward off the famous Bourbon Street blackouts/hangovers)
• our favorite non-eating activities (lol) to get the best sense of the culture and city in your limited available time.

When you buy, you get a downloadable/printable guide to all 19 destinations, plus our easy-to-install Google Maps overlay.

New release price!
Get the 48 Hour Chef's Guide to New Orleans for just $37 $27:

THE FULL BELLY - A 1 Week Chef's Guide to Eating and Drinking in New Orleans

This is a humdinger of a list: 40 chef-tested food and beverage recommendations (plus a few activities to help you burn off the calories) to keep you going for an entire week of eating and drinking in NOLA. If you're up for the challenge, it's all here in our ultimate fully loaded guide!

This FULL BELLY guide to New Orleans includes a whopping 40 recommendations:

• delicious dining recommendations (including our TOP recommendations for lunch and dinner)
• intoxicating spots for drinks (and snacks to help ward off the famous Bourbon Street blackouts/hangovers)
• our favorite non-eating activities (lol) to get the best sense of the culture and city in your limited available time.

When you buy, you get a downloadable/printable guide to all 40 destinations, plus our easy-to-install Google Maps overlay.

New release price!
Get our FULL BELLY Chef's Guide to New Orleans for just $47 $37: