Every time I go here it's fast, fresh, and friendly. Great tasting chicken and sides that's fast,…read morebut not fast food. Delicious.

Always hot and fresh to order. I've eaten Highway chicken a good bit and they seem to be pretty…read moreconsistent with flavor. Good amount of seating inside where you can sit and enjoy while it's fresh. They are pretty swift with taking orders and assist you with any questions you need. Definitely a must try if you are near.

Visiting family for the holidays and a relative was raving about the chicken sandwich here so we…read moredecided to give it a try. There's a decent sized parking lot here and the interior and outside grounds are very well kept. We chose to sit outside, plenty of seating with shade for most. Starting off with shrimp toast and heirloom tomatoes was a good start to our lunch experience. I ordered the chicken sandwich and my wife got the fresh pasta. We were blown away by both dishes. Juicy chicken with peppers on ciabatta bread and fries to write home about. The pasta was in pesto that seemed freshly made and the grilled chicken thighs we added was fantastic. Thoroughly impressed with the food here but only second to our waiter as far as the total experience. It was a bearded young gentleman, I didn't catch his name but he took care of us and was very attentive. Completely impressed with this establishment and I'd recommend any and all to check this place out.

Wow. This restaurant is great! I ordered the Chicken Cutlet Sandwich and my husband ordered the…read moreSmash Burger. The chicken cutlet is huge! I saved half for later. The chicken was fried crispy, juicy and had an olive tapenade spread - incredibly good! And this place has some of the best fries I've ever had - seasoned to perfection. I would definitely come back just for this sandwich. My husband liked his smash burger a lot.

This is a "higher class" dive of a diner with a eclectic menu that jumps into multiple ethnic food…read moregenres with a selection of Italian then some Mexican along with some classic American and a nice dash of New Orleans dishes thrown in for good measure. The menu certainly goes all over the map with its dishes and that seems to leave some less than excellent execution but generally they pull off "ok" to "very good" food. The service here always seems to be very good and the ambiance is a unique mix that gives it a fun vibe. The burger and lasagna are decent and the Italian and Mexican style food can often be quite nice. The New Orleans food is typically good and they usually have rotating daily specials. Overall this is great spot when you have a group of people that all want something different. Warren Zevon would really enjoy this place!

Let me start with the service is excellent. You're greeted like family…read more We started with chips and salsa. The salsa was delicious but the chips were the star. They were thin and crispy with some Cajun seasoning on them. I had the smothered burger special that was so yummy. The Cajun potatoes and gravy with onions were just perfect!! Hubby had the honey blackened mahi mahi sandwich and it was so good. I highly recommend this little hole in the wall that the tables are full; but, well worth the wait.

Nostalgia!!!! So glad yall are back. I was in the city visiting family and saw this place open…read moreclose to my hotel. Thinking it couldn't be the one I used to go to 30 years ago I looked them up and sure enough they are carrying on the tradition of the original crazy Johnnie's. So happy. Stopped in on the second day here. Glad I did. Went around lunchtime and the parking lot was pretty full but I found a spot up front. Sat at the bar since I was eating alone. I was greeted by just about everyone I saw. Quick look at the menu and I ordered the bbq shrimp and of course the steak sandwich. One knock I will give them is I ordered tea and they were out. So I ordered lemonade. There were out. Settled for a Barq's. That ain't really settling but I didn't want soda. And water wasn't gonna cut it. So on to the bbq shrimp. Huge prawns. About 6 of them. Easy to peel. They come with French bread to dip. Very tasty. The sauce leaned more into a bbq sauce flavor which I usually don't like but I absolutely didn't mind. These were on point. Then the steak sandwich. I remember back in the day the meat was cubed but the way they cut it is fine. And they still had the steak sauce they used back then. So good. If I had remembered I would have done without the sauce that comes on it so I could just have the steak sauce but it was fine. So good. Worth the visit. I'll definitely be stopping in every time I return and living that nostalgia. They are hitting the mark with this revival.

Stopped in for happy hour and ended up having an experience worth writing about. We sat at the bar,…read morewhich turned out to be the best seat in the house. The happy hour filet po'boy was the standout we ordered it without the bread and paired it with green beans and mashed potatoes, and it absolutely delivered. The filet was cooked perfectly, tender and full of flavor, and the sides were comforting and well executed. But the real star of the show was John behind the bar. He was cooking up drinks with confidence and personality, making the whole experience fun and engaging without ever feeling over the top. Great conversation, great recommendations, and excellent service. Happy hour, great food, and an even better bar experience we'll definitely be back and sitting at the bar again.

Cool bar with a cool ambiance, friendly service and a great place to grab a few cold drinks with…read morefriends. I would definitely recommend here.

This place was surprisingly pleasant and doesn't seem like your regular Metairie dive bar. It moody…read moreand dark inside. Kind of a sexy vibe. I dig it. Owned by the same people that own my FAVORITE New Orleans bar, Evangeline Lounge, the food is the same and really good as far as bar food goes. Yum! Drinks are strong and the bar tenders are friendly. Service was a little slow when I went but might've just been an off time. I'm willing to give it another chance. They do have touch tunes if you find yourself wanting to do a hostile Taylor Swift takeover of the music selection.

Every now and then, my GF and I want to do something a little nicer than "whatever", but we still…read morewant to keep it easy and casual when we want food and drinks. So we go to The Boulevard in Elmwood and sit at the bar. Let me make the point that we've never eaten in the dining room. Sometimes, we want to sit at a nice bar and eat our dinner. We interact with the staff, asking questions about the different bottles they have behind their very well stocked bar, and just relaxing. We've been to the Boulevard at least 4 or 6 times now, and it's a really nice experience each time. The bartenders are always friendly and attentive, the cocktails are always great, and we always love their food. Specifically - they make a great Old Fashioned (for me) and a great dirty martini (for her). They have a decent beer selection, but we come here for the cocktails (and food). We've tried a variety of their food, and it's all been good. They have a great oyster appetizer, and their crab cakes and their burgers stand out in my memory. I will say that every time I've gotten a burger, I've had to wave the bartender down to get condiments. Shouldn't have to, but I'm not taking away a star for that. Good cocktails, good food, good service. That's what we get!

We went here for lunch yesterday and I was so excited because I love the spinach dip & crab cakes…read more We ordered the spinach dip which comes with chips, salsa and sour cream which is very good. But the waitress that brought it out to us put it down and some of the chips slid off of our plate and she hurried up and picked the chips up with her hands and put them back on our plate. My husband and I were shocked. They do whip off the tables but with the same towel for every table. We saw a small bucket with the towel in it and watched them. So they don't spray the tables down after each use just whips it off with the same towel. Our food was very good. I gave it a 2 star because of what happened.

My order was wrong and then the food was just AWFUL! I've eaten a ton of burgers all over the…read moreplace and this one was the WORST!!!! The bun was soggy and mushy which is also how I would describe the Fries. Just an utterly dismal disappointment! To add insult to injury I spent over $24 for this trash which I could get a steak dinner for that! All Mr. Beast locations are run by different people so your location might definitely vary and I hope it does. In the meantime I think Mr. Beast owes me a few million for the pain and suffering he put me through...

Cookies were burnt to hell and raw in the middle. Fries were soggy and unsalted. Burgers were…read moresmashed and miserable. My family got 4 burgers, 4 fries, and 3 cookies for $85!! Damn, it was rough.

I've been to New Orleans over 20 times including 19 JazzFests and one of the top 5 restaurants in…read moreNew Orleans is Brigtsens. Frank Brigtsen opened up his restaurant in a house in Nola. Frank is one of the greatest chefs who teaches chefs to try and keep the Cajun Creole cuisine alive. We went for my brother & sister in laws anniversary. Every dish was fantastic and Frank came over to speak with us near the end of our meal generously talking about his passion and the state of cajun creole cuisine in New Orleans. Enjoying this great meal in this wonderful house with great service could not have been better. I quote this by Michael Oates because it encapsulates this restaurant so well: "Why do we love restaurants? One answer may lie in a small house at the outer edge of New Orleans. There you'll find the great statesman of Creole cooking and the spiritual heir to his mentor Paul Prudhomme. Over a 50-year career, Frank Brigtsen has won all the top accolades and the respect and affection of his regulars, peers, and staff -- all while weathering a catastrophic flood, a destructive oil spill, and a worldwide pandemic. But cooking is a full contact sport."

There's a certain expectation that comes with dining at a restaurant built around a celebrated…read morechef's name--an expectation not just of technical competence, but of intention, restraint, and respect for the ingredients. This visit, regrettably, delivered very little of that. The evening began on an oddly dissonant note: being asked to sit in a hallway while dining. Not a lounge, not a bar--simply a passageway. It's a small detail, but in restaurants that aspire to polish, these are precisely the moments that signal whether hospitality is an afterthought or a discipline. Even the most basic overture--the bread service--set the wrong tone. At $3.50, the charge itself isn't the issue; many great restaurants charge for bread and elevate it accordingly. Here, however, the bread was dry, lifeless, and entirely without character. If anything, it felt like a placeholder rather than a deliberate offering. The meal itself unfolded with a similar lack of coherence. The BBQ shrimp was, to its credit, excellent--well-balanced, properly executed, and the only dish that suggested the kitchen is capable of focus. Everything else, however, felt rushed, indifferent, or simply misjudged. The seafood platter was the clearest example. A majority of it leaned on undersized redfish, giving the impression of skimpiness rather than composition. The calamari arrived soggy--an unforgivable flaw for something so fundamentally dependent on texture. In a city where most restaurants serve different seafood platters, this one close to $50 was one of the most careless ones I have had. The oysters were even more perplexing: one paired with what tasted unmistakably like canned, sour artichoke, the other buried under creamed spinach so bland it muted everything around it. These weren't bold choices; they were careless ones. The eggplant parmesan followed suit--soft where it should have been crisp, lacking structure, and paired with pasta that tasted indistinguishable from inexpensive boxed varieties. At roughly $30, the absence of both protein and craft made the dish feel less like a considered offering and more like an obligation on the menu. What's most disappointing isn't that the meal had flaws--every restaurant has off moments--but that the flaws pointed in a consistent direction. This didn't feel like a kitchen taking risks and missing; it felt like a kitchen cutting corners. When soggy calamari makes it onto a featured seafood platter, and even the bread arrives as an afterthought, it suggests a prioritization of throughput over integrity. I have seen great chefs prioritize quality ruthlessly over what goes out of kitchen and the place I really wanted to support, that adherence to quality was no where to be seen. Having dined extensively at all tiers of restaurants both locally and across the country, this stands out--not for ambition or originality--but for how underwhelming it ultimately was. Perhaps it was an off night. But if so, it was one that revealed more than it concealed.

Maple Street Cafe is a little bit out of the way, as we are staying in the CBD. It was well worth…read morethe drive, and Yelp reviews didn't steer me wrong. We started off with the mussels. They were so fresh and delicious. Hubs and I both had the Filet Portabello, and it was YUM. My favorite was their bread and homemade butter. Our server was Deana, and she was extremely helpful with the menu, and our choices. Our glasses were never empty. Best choice we've made since visiting Nola!

This just is definitively the best Greek salad in the city. It's got tomatoes, capers, kalamata…read moreolives, roasted red peppers, banana peppers, onions, hearts of palm, roasted garlic, green peppers, cucumbers and feta. I add the grilled chicken for protein, doesn't even need dressing! And the mixed greens are always crisp and never limp or starting to turn. I'm not a huge salad girlie (see my other reviews) but when I'm trying to eat lighter I still want lots of flavor and to feel full and this salad always does the job! I've been ordering it delivery, so can't comment on the ambiance but it's prepared quickly and with a good mix of all the goodies. Great for swimsuit season!

Fun little bar that services the locals. A gal from the Rivershack suggested we give it a try. The…read moreplace was dark and had a typical bar look. We sat at the bar and the bartender made us a round. The bartender was great and gave us a lot of tips about local hit stops. I didn't catch his name, but evidently, he's the only male bartender there, so, shouldn't be that hard to find. We were on the lookout for fun places, not in the Quarter, and we found one here. Hope you have as much fun as we did!!

I really want to love this place. Jefferson Hwy is a great spot. The porch is awesome and the…read moreambiance is great. The bartenders are friendly and engaging but 2 out of 3 don't know how to pour a beer. If I order a pint of beer I am expecting 16 ounces. Management seems to be dismissed. They are constantly running out of liquor. How does a bar run out of vodka? They have several beer taps but half are usually empty. There is no way to find out what bands are playing. I saw some posts on FB lady month but typically Facebook isn't updated, instagram link doesn't work. The website shows their last event from a year ago. In between band sets, the bartender puts on their music of choice, which can be head banging or techno. You should match the music to the crowd or genre of who is playing that night. I see they are making physical renovations to the place to attract people. You may get new interest but if the business is broken they will not come back. I was in there a couple of days ago and saw a box with Toys For Tots propped up against a wall under a beer sign. There was no signage, nothing to bring attention to it. Of course it was empty. I was told it wasn't going over too well. There were 2 menu's on the wall, not sure which was correct. It's been under new management for month or so. I am hoping they can turn this around.