Top New Orleans Food & Drink

Get more from the city by exploring New Orleans’ food culture with a guide. Stop by some of the French Quarter’s most famous restaurants for some of the area’s most delicious food. Enjoy tastings that could include seafood gumbo, Creole brisket, and beignets. Learn fun facts from your guide as you walk along the city streets, and if you choose, upgrade to a small-group tour with no more than 12 guests.

Go for the gastronomic gusto on a food‐filled walking tour of New Orleans! Journey with a savvy local guide to popular Creole eateries, markets, and artisanal shops to sample diverse foods that define Louisiana’s culinary landscape. Stopping at several locations, savor such classic bites as gumbo, muffulettas, po'boys, bananas foster, and pralines. Along the way, meet local chefs and learn about New Orleans’ rich culinary history.

Eat and drink your way through the French Quarter on a culinary walking tour designed to highlight New Orleans’ rich gastronomic heritage. Visit local institutions and holes-in-the-wall, taste a range of dishes and buy culinary souvenirs, like hot sauce and decadent pralines. Enjoy food samples at eat that stop, which add up to the equivalent of a full meal.

Get the best of Louisiana with this historical tour that combines all the flavors of New Orleans with a trip into the past. You'll follow your expert guide to eight different locations throughout the city that include Creole restaurants, cocktail lounges, sandwich shops and pre-Civil War bars. This tour includes samples of up to ten different dishes, plus four full-sized drinks that showcase the best of Louisiana's culinary and cocktail heritage. This is the perfect tour for foodies and allows travelers to sample the best in a single afternoon!

New Orleans is one of the world's great food cities—and this French Quarter tasting tour offers the perfect introduction to its culinary traditions and highlights. Meet your guide right outside the Louisiana Supreme Court Building, and come hungry: you'll visit several local restaurants, and will taste dishes like gumbo, jambalaya, and muffuletta. As you go, learn the differences between Creole and Cajun cooking, and soak up the one-of-a-kind atmosphere.

Exploring New Orleans in the evening can seem like an intimidating quest on your own, but this ghost, voodoo, and vampire walking tour takes you to the city’s most eerie sites at night in the safety of a group with a knowledgeable guide. Stop by top attractions such as the LaLaurie Mansion and New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, all while listening to your guide’s detailed stories of the paranormal and beyond.

The Steamboat Natchez is taking some time off, but her sister vessel will be taking her place. You’ll get the same authentic experience of New Orleans at night on this romantic riverboat cruise! Journey through time on a paddle-wheel boat ride along the mighty Mississippi. Stroll the deck, cozy up with family and friends, and delight in the sparkle of the urban shoreline at dusk. This excursion includes a Creole‐inspired dinner (if option selected) and live jazz music.

If you're looking for a no-holds-barred fright in New Orleans, explore the city’s dark history on this adults-only tour from Hottest Hell, one of the top-rated haunted tour operators in town. Storytelling guides save the most grizzly true-crime tales, voodoo legends, and paranormal frights for this one, taking you on the choice of two different routes through the most haunted locations in the French Quarter and beyond.

Experience New Orleans’ wild bayou country on an exciting, family‐friendly airboat ride. This boat tour winds through the mossy cypress swamp close to Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, named for the 19th‐century pirate and smuggler. While onboard, enjoy lively commentary from a native guide as you admire lush, forested shoreline and spot local wildlife. Both self-drive and hotel pickup options are available, and hotel pickups begin 75 minutes prior to tour time.

Get the full Louisiana dining experience during a fun and educational New Orleans cooking demonstration class. Take a seat amongst other foodies in a converted 19th century molasses warehouse and get ready to learn and eat! Meet a lively local chef and learn the fundamentals of preparing classic Creole dishes such as gumbo, jambalaya, and pralines. Then dig into delicious samples complemented by local beer or a sweet ice tea.

Get the full New Orleans tasting experience with a 3-hour French Quarter cocktail and foodie tour! Discover the pillars of New Orleans’ restaurant scene with visits to renowned establishments. Learn about local food and drink history from your savvy guide, and sip on some of New Orleans' most celebrated drinks.

Enrich your visit to New Orleans with a half-day cooking class. Learn to prepare authentic Louisiana cuisine with a professional chef and a small group of like-minded foodies. After completing your lesson, sit down to enjoy the meal and receive a complimentary wine and local beer, a souvenir apron, and a collection of recipes included in the cost of the course.

Experience New Orleans’ vibrant jazz scene on a night out with a knowledgeable local guide. Learn about jazz’s origins and culture and visit landmarks like Louis Armstrong Park, Marigny, and Frenchman Street. Enjoy live jazz music and a beer and leave the tour armed with recommendations and insights from your guide.

From grits to gumbo, food in New Orleans is packed with flavor. This food walking tour of the French Quarter takes you to time-tested, hole-in-the-wall establishments that you’re likely to overlook on your own. Try authentic Cajun and Creole cooking, and learn about New Orleans history and culture between bites.

Discover New Orleans' one-of-a-kind culinary traditions—and taste the best of the city's classic dishes—on this small-group walking tour through the atmospheric French Quarter. Meet your guide in the afternoon, and come prepared with an appetite: you'll visit six different restaurants, bakeries, and mom-and-pop joints, and will enjoy hearty samples of the city's most beloved, classic dishes. As you go, learn more about New Orleans' history and culinary culture from your guide.

Experience a classic NOLA dining experience like a VIP with this special access pass to Mister Gregory’s French Quarter Shrimp Boil. Start with a muffaletta tasting and appetizers of local blue crab and alligator tail while admiring views of Armstrong Park. Watch as chefs prepare the boil, then dig into this authentic New Orleans dish—save room for dessert. All the while, local performers keep you entertained.

Take a big bite out of the Big Easy on this culinary walking tour of the Freret neighborhood in New Orleans. This charming uptown neighborhood packs all the charm and flavor of the French Quarter without any of the crowds and offers you an authentic taste of New Orleans food and culture.

New Orleans’ French Quarter is known for its amazing food, and this Cajun and Creole cooking class centered in the French Quarter provides you with the tips you need to be able to make three dishes in your own kitchen. This private experience can be booked for up to ten people, and you’ll get quality time with your group as you make gumbo, etouffee, and bananas foster all from scratch.

Add magic and romance to your New Orleans vacation with an unforgettable VIP sightseeing flight! Choose between champagne and chocolate or wine and cheese as you glide by small plane over urban New Orleans and the surrounded wetlands. On the 45-minute flight, hear colorful tales of the city from your experienced pilot and enjoy aerial views the French Quarter, the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, the winding bayous and more. Sightseeing requests are welcome!

The New Orleans Hard Rock Cafe brings classic cuisine to the Big Easy with a prix-fixe menu that highlights the city's musical heritage. Choose a 2- or 3-course menu with your preferred musical theme. No matter what meal you choose, your appetite will be quenched at this transcontinental cultural icon.

Taste your way through New Orleans’ most charming neighborhood on a sensory-rich Garden District food and walking tour that removes the guesswork of where to eat. Stroll past historic mansions and cemeteries while learning about the city’s multicultural history and unique burial traditions. Along the way, stop to sample Creole, Cajun, French, and Italian specialties hand-picked by a guide who knows the best places to dine.

Take your taste buds beyond the French Quarter with a food tour of New Orleans’ historic Garden District. Stop at five hand-picked eateries nested near lively Magazine Street in this neighborhood that’s often overlooked by tourists. A mix of international and southern dishes offer a palate-pleasing sampler of diverse New Orleans flavor, from fresh Mexican tacos and Koran BBQ to artisan donuts and an award-winning deli sandwich.

Leave the tourist crowds of the French Quarter behind and discover the flavors of New Orleans like a local on a 2.5- to 3-hour food tour. Offered in either the Garden District or Bywater Neighborhood, you have the flexibility to choose the itinerary that most appeals to your palate. Whichever you pick, enjoy food and drinks at three local joints that you won’t find in a typical guidebook.

Discover the historic restaurants and bars of the French Quarter on a tour that combines culinary delights with historical details. Starting on a rooftop bar, your guide provides a lay of the land, making the tour an ideal way for newcomers to get to know the city. From there, taste and drink your way through New Orleans’ classics establishments with a guide to recommend the authentic, must-try items.