Metairie, United States
Clancy’s
Under chef Brian Larson, it occupies the steady, unfussy end of the city's Creole dining spectrum, the kind of neighbourhood room that earns repeat visits rather than one-off pilgrimages.
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Metairie
Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Metairie from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Metairie
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18 of the 28 restaurants in our guide, the largest share of the guide's restaurants, sit in the neighborhood named Metairie. Old Metairie, Bucktown, and Fat City hold the next groups of restaurants. The remaining restaurants are in French Market Plaza, Uptown, and Martin Behrman. Michelin-starred restaurants number zero citywide.
Only one of the 28 restaurants holds a Wine Spectator award, the Best of Award of Excellence for 2026, and that restaurant also holds the guide's only exceptional wine program. It is Clancy’s, a Creole restaurant in Uptown with an extensive wine list and a Michelin Plate. wine lists in the guide sit mostly with Italian restaurants and steakhouses, and most of those restaurants are in the Metairie neighborhood. Most restaurants in the guide keep a standard or minimal wine program.
Extensive wine lists
Clancy’s in Uptown holds the guide's only exceptional wine program and its Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Vacca Steakhouse in Metairie and Impastato's Restaurant in French Market Plaza also keep extensive wine lists.
Clancy’s
Clancy’s in Uptown is a Creole restaurant with a handwritten daily menu and New Orleans seafood and veal. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive wine list and the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2026. It holds a Michelin Plate for 2025 and Opinionated About Dining Casual in North America Recommended for 2026. The format is a la carte.
Vacca Steakhouse
Vacca Steakhouse in Metairie is a classic steakhouse in an elegant setting, serving a Porterhouse for two, a Cowboy Ribeye, and house-made specialties on an a la carte menu. The restaurant keeps an extensive wine list.
Impastato's Restaurant
Impastato's Restaurant in French Market Plaza is a family-owned Sicilian restaurant. Tableside homemade pasta and five-course dinners bring Italian cooking together with Louisiana Creole flavors, and the format is a la carte. The wine program has an extensive wine list.
Restaurants in the Metairie neighborhood
SEIJI's OMAKASE by LITTLE TOKYO, Vincent's, and Desi Vega's Seafood & Prime Steaks are all in the Metairie neighborhood. The first serves an omakase tasting menu, and the others are a la carte rooms with wine.
SEIJI's OMAKASE by LITTLE TOKYO
SEIJI's OMAKASE by LITTLE TOKYO in Metairie runs omakase and kaiseki as a tasting menu at a small sushi bar with three tables, in a back room. The format is also counter dining. Resy named it to the Best of the Hit List for 2025.
Vincent's
Vincent's in Metairie is a family-owned Italian restaurant serving classic Italian dishes with Louisiana seafood on an a la carte menu. House specialties include Veal and Spinach Cannelloni and Corn and Crab Bisque in a bread bowl. Owner Vincent greets guests in the dining room.
Desi Vega's Seafood & Prime Steaks
Desi Vega's Seafood & Prime Steaks in Metairie is an upscale steakhouse and seafood restaurant. USDA Prime steaks are hand-cut and aged, then served on sizzling plates, with Gulf Coast-inspired seafood on the same a la carte menu. The restaurant pours craft cocktails.
Planning FAQ
How many Michelin-starred restaurants are in Metairie?
Our guide counts zero Michelin-starred restaurants in Metairie. The citywide total of Michelin stars is zero as well, across every restaurant in the guide. Clancy’s in the Uptown neighborhood, a Creole restaurant, holds a Michelin Plate for 2025 in our guide.
Which place holds a Wine Spectator award?
Clancy’s in Uptown holds the only Wine Spectator award in our Metairie guide: the Best of Award of Excellence for 2026. The citywide count of Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence awards is one. The restaurant keeps an extensive wine list.
Where is the tasting menu?
SEIJI's OMAKASE by LITTLE TOKYO in Metairie is where our guide shows a tasting menu. The restaurant serves multi-course omakase and kaiseki dinners with counter dining, in a back room with only three tables, a small sushi bar, and two nightly seatings.
Which neighborhood has the exceptional wine program?
Uptown is the neighborhood of the guide's only exceptional wine program and its only Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, both at Clancy’s. Clancy’s in Uptown keeps an extensive wine list and holds that Best of Award of Excellence for 2026.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Where to eat in Metairie
Selected entries from the current guide for Metairie.
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SEIJI's OMAKASE by LITTLE TOKYO
Omakase dining arrived in the New Orleans metro with serious intent at SEIJI's OMAKASE by LITTLE TOKYO, a Resy Best of the Hit List honoree for 2025 located on N Causeway Blvd in Metairie, Louisiana. The format places the kitchen firmly in control of the progression, asking guests to trust sourcing and sequence over personal preference, a discipline rare at this latitude.
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A Tavola
Planning ahead is advisable for anyone serious about securing a seat.
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Acropolis Cuisine
Acropolis Cuisine sits on Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie, Louisiana, bringing Greek and Mediterranean traditions to the suburban stretch west of New Orleans. The restaurant draws on a culinary lineage rooted in ingredient-led cooking, where olive oil, fresh herbs, and simply prepared proteins do the work. For those exploring Metairie's dining scene, it offers a grounded alternative to the louder Creole-Italian axis that dominates the corridor.
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Beraca Restaurant
Beraca Restaurant operates on N Arnoult Road in Metairie, Louisiana, sitting within a suburban dining corridor that draws from the cultural breadth of Greater New Orleans. The venue's address places it among a cluster of international and independent restaurants that define Metairie's quieter alternative to the French Quarter dining circuit. Specific menu details and hours are best confirmed directly with the restaurant before visiting.
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Byblos
Byblos on Metairie Road occupies a corner of greater New Orleans where Middle Eastern and Mediterranean traditions have built genuine roots over decades. The address at 1501 Metairie Rd places it among a cluster of independent restaurants that define the suburb's dining identity, distinct from the French Quarter circuit. For visitors calibrating a broader Metairie itinerary, it belongs on the shortlist alongside the area's other specialty-driven independents.
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Byblos Market
Byblos Market sits on Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie, operating as a market-format expression of the Levantine culinary tradition that has shaped the suburb's food culture for decades. Connected to the Byblos restaurant operation, it serves a community with deep Lebanese and Syrian roots rather than a transient dining audience. For prepared food, pantry staples, and Middle Eastern cooking taken seriously, it occupies a distinct position in Jefferson Parish's independent food scene.
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Caffe Caffe
Caffe Caffe sits on Clearview Parkway in Metairie, Louisiana, within a dining corridor that spans independent Italian trattorias, Middle Eastern kitchens, and neighborhood cafés. The venue occupies a slice of Jefferson Parish's quiet but consistent restaurant scene, where regulars tend to return for dependable cooking rather than destination ambition. For visitors exploring the area, it represents the kind of local address that earns loyalty through repetition rather than spectacle.
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Casa Garcia
Casa Garcia occupies a well-traveled stretch of Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie, Louisiana, where the suburb's dining scene quietly sustains a range of independent operators alongside the area's more prominent names. The address at 8814 Veterans Memorial Blvd places it in a corridor familiar to locals navigating Metairie's spread-out, car-dependent restaurant circuit. For visitors oriented toward the suburb's independent dining fabric, Casa Garcia is part of a broader picture worth understanding.
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Crazy Johnnie's
Crazy Johnnie's occupies a Veterans Memorial Boulevard address that has drawn Metairie regulars for years. The restaurant sits within a suburban dining corridor where neighborhood loyalty runs deep and the room rewards repeat visitors more than first-timers. For the full picture of what to order and when to go, read on.
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Deanie's Seafood
Deanie's Seafood on Lake Avenue is a Metairie neighborhood anchor rooted in Gulf Coast culinary tradition. Built for locals who know exactly what they want, it represents the community-first dining culture that defines this suburb's restaurant scene. For visitors seeking honest Louisiana seafood outside the tourist circuit, it offers access to a regional tradition on its own terms.
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Desi Vega's Seafood & Prime Steaks
Desi Vega's Seafood and Steaks occupies a distinct position on Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie, drawing from Louisiana's deep tradition of surf-and-turf dining rooms that take both sides of the menu seriously. The format, a dedicated seafood-and-steaks house in a suburb that increasingly competes with New Orleans proper for serious dining, places it in a niche that rewards guests who know what they are looking for.
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Don's Seafood - Metairie
Don's Seafood on Veterans Memorial Boulevard sits within Metairie's long tradition of neighborhood seafood houses that serve Louisiana's coastal larder without ceremony or pretense. The dining room runs through Gulf classics with the kind of practiced rhythm that comes from years of repeat trade, placing it firmly in the mid-market seafood tier that defines much of suburban New Orleans dining.
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Fausto's Bistro
Fausto's Bistro pairs traditional Sicilian and Italian trattoria cooking with local sourcing in a standalone format, geared to lunch and dinner in a casual, conversational room.
Metairie, United States
Fury's
Fury's occupies a suite on Martin Behrman Avenue in Metairie, Louisiana, sitting within a suburban dining corridor that draws from both local neighborhood traffic and the broader New Orleans metro. The venue's address places it alongside a range of independent operators that define Metairie's identity as a distinct alternative to the French Quarter dining circuit. Contact and booking details are best confirmed directly before visiting.
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Habanero's - Metarie
A Mexican restaurant on Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie, Habanero's operates in a dining corridor where seafood houses and international kitchens define the local competitive set. The menu architecture signals the kind of accessible, heat-forward cooking that has sustained neighborhood Mexican dining across the New Orleans metro for decades. Worth knowing before you go: the address at 3301 Veterans Memorial Blvd places it squarely in the commercial stretch of Metairie that rewards planners over wanderers.
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Impastato's Restaurant
Impastato's Restaurant on 16th Street in Metairie represents the kind of Italian-American dining room that greater New Orleans has historically sustained better than most American cities: family-rooted, unhurried, and tied to the rhythms of the table rather than the demands of the trend cycle. For diners who read a meal as a sequence of decisions rather than a single event, it occupies a distinct position in Metairie's dining scene.
Metairie, United States
Kosher Cajun NY Deli & Grocery
A hybrid kosher deli and grocery in Metairie that draws on both New York deli tradition and Louisiana Cajun pantry staples, Kosher Cajun NY Deli & Grocery on Severn Avenue occupies a category with almost no local competition. Regulars treat it as a weekly ritual, returning for the cross-cultural provisions that define its dual identity. It sits at an address that has become a reliable anchor for the Greater New Orleans Jewish community and curious food shoppers alike.
Metairie, United States
Lee's Hamburgers
Lee's Hamburgers serves Classic American Hamburgers with counter service and a quick-bite pace; the Original Burger frames a casual lunch-or-dinner stop on Metairie Rd.
Metairie, United States
Los Jefes Grill
Los Jefes Grill on Edenborn Avenue sits in the middle of Metairie's working-restaurant corridor, where direct grilling traditions and neighborhood loyalty matter more than press cycles or destination hype. It occupies the same suburban Jefferson Parish grid that has long supported a diverse range of independent operators, from Lebanese kitchens to Greek storefronts, making it one address inside a genuinely plural local dining scene.
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Porter & Luke's
Porter & Luke's sits on Metairie Road in the heart of one of the New Orleans metro's most established dining corridors. The address places it among a quietly competitive local scene where neighborhood regulars and cross-parish visitors converge. Specific menu details and awards data are not currently available through EP Club, but the location signals a restaurant operating within Metairie's enduring culture of unpretentious, seriously considered food.
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R & O's
A Metairie institution on Metairie-Hammond Highway, R & O's draws locals and returning visitors alike with the kind of unpretentious, service-driven dining that defines the suburb's Gulf Coast character. The room runs on a rhythm built over years of repeat business, where front-of-house familiarity and kitchen consistency carry equal weight. For seafood and po-boy traditions rooted in greater New Orleans culture, it occupies a reliable tier among the area's longstanding independents.
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Ristorante Filippo
An Italian restaurant on Ridgelake Drive in Metairie, Louisiana, Ristorante Filippo occupies a quiet corridor of the suburb where neighborhood dining runs deeper than the tourist circuit. The address places it squarely in the residential fabric of Metairie, where Italian-American traditions have found consistent footing across decades. Contact the restaurant directly for current hours, pricing, and reservation availability.
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