New Orleans
Restaurants
The list keeps growing with the great new restaurants we just added in July 2025. Go on an adventure to places in other neighborhoods or walk from the Chimes to twenty-four nearby locations. We recommend restaurants that we personally enjoy, however, there are far too many to list. Browse the links below to see what dishes appeal to your taste. Variety is on display with price ranges to fit every budget.
Breakfast in the Neighborhood
- Bearcat Cafe - Something better than just breakfast 1.3 mile walk *
- La Boulangerie - The Chimes serves their pastries and breads.
- Ruby Slipper Cafe - Breakfast until 3 pm (they deliver) 1.1-mile walk
- Slim Goodies - Breakfast until 3 pm .7 mile walk
- Superior Seafood and Oyster Bar - Exceptional brunch menu, service begins at 11:00 am .6 miles
- The Vintage Restaurant - Breakfast is served all day .8-mile walk
Local Coffee Shops
Walk to These Restaurants
- Baru - Wake up your taste buds with Latin Caribbean tapas, divine cocktails, Dinner Mon.-Sat. .4 miles *
- Bistro Daisy - Perfect everything, beautiful atmosphere, a Chimes favorite 1.5 miles *
- Bouligny Tavern - Wine, cocktails, and special small plates .4 miles
- Café Atchafalaya - Brunch Thursday-Monday, dinner nightly. Excellent food. .8 miles
- Costera Restaurant - Spanish influenced, very well done .8 miles
- Dat Dog - Gourmet hot dogs, veggie, and vegan too .7 miles
- Fresh Market - Pick up food, wine, and dessert for a courtyard dinner at the Chimes .6 miles
- Guy's Po-Boys - 1.1 miles
- Joey K's - Louisiana & Cajun food .9 miles
- La Boulangerie - Best bakery for breakfast and lunch. Pastries served at the Chimes are from here *
- La Petite Grocery - Bistro style, Louisiana food, James Beard Award Winner. .4-miles *
- Miss Shirley's Chinese Restaurant - Amazing! 1 mile
- Osteria Lupo - Northern Italian handmade pastas, small pizza, good drinks. Sit at the bar .6 Miles
- Pomelo Thai - Authentic handmade Thai cusine, intimate, BYO alcohol .3 miles
- Shaya - Modern Israeli cuisine, James Beard Award Winner; Reserve or walk-in .3 miles
- St. James Cheese Co. - Salads, charcuterie plate, sandwiches, and cheeses galore. .8 miles
- Superior Seafood & Oyster Bar - Brunch Sat.-Sun., Oyster bar, Happy Hour 4:00-6:30, all good .5 miles
- Saffron - Modern Indian, well-done .3 miles
- Tal’s Hummus - Order for pick-up or dine in.
- Zee's Pizzeria - limited menu, great pizza, directly beside Lucy Boone Ice Cream .6 miles
Take a Street Car, Lyft or Uber
- Arnaud's - Classic Creole fine dining, French 75 Bar, for that special night 3.1 miles
- Audubon Club House - Beautiful setting in Audubon Park
- Avenue Pub - Sports Bar, food and spirits, street car 1.8 miles
- Bacchanal Wine - Backyard tables, live jazz, good wine, tapas 5.4 miles
- Boucherie - A hidden gem uptown, street car ride 3.1 miles
- Brigtsen's - Refined Cajun at its finest 3.0 miles
- Café Degas - When visiting City Park or NOMA, eat here 4.8 miles
- Café De Monde - French Quarter or City Park locations for Beignets
- Camellia Grill - Classic diner
- Cochon - House-made meats and sausages 2.4 miles
- Crabby Jack's - Out of the mainstream of tourists. Transportation needed 4.6 miles
- Jacques-imo's - Quirky, original, Creole food, take the St. Charles Ave. streetcar 3.3 miles
- Jewel of the South - Off the tourist path in the french quarter - award-winning cocktails & food 3.3 miles *
- Katie's - Diners, drive-ins, and dives found it before we did, street car 4.0 miles
- MaMou - A French Brasserie, exuding whimsy, excellent food, and wine (highly recommended) 4.7 miles *
- Parkway Tavern - Po-Boys, Catfish, Seafood, and sides 4.1 miles
- Paladar511 - Housemade pasta, pizza and Gulf seafood 6.3 miles
- Patois - small neighborhood spot, great food, and atmosphere 1.9 miles
- Tartine - For breakfast, French-inspired
- Whole Food Market - Bring something back to eat in the Chimes courtyard 1.4 miles
For Dessert in the Neighborhood
- Hansen's Sno-Blitz - Making sno-ball flavors since 1939 1.0 miles
- Lucy Boone Ice Cream - Ice cream made on the premises (an easy walk from the Chimes) .7 miles *
- Creole Creamery - Handmade ice cream, usual and unique flavors .9 miles *
- Sucre' - Hand spun Gelato, specialty chocolates, and French Macarons .9 miles
