City dining guide

Best restaurants in Metairie

2 guide-listed restaurants — Michelin, Bib Gourmand, Black Pearl, Must-Eat List, World's 50 Best and more. Reference quality signals; never ranked by commission, no in-app checkout.

Michelin-starred 1

Zasu

★ Michelin$$$american

Chef Sue Zemanick is no stranger to the New Orleans dining scene, having spent time in the kitchens of some of the city's famed restaurants before opening Zasu in 2019. Set in an easy-to-miss cottage in Mid-City, it's an elegant oasis with a sleek dining room marked by wood floors, dark green walls and gold tones. The menu is tightly edited, featuring a dozen or so dishes focused on seafood and blending local flavors with French techniques. A scallop shell holds two perfectly seared scallops in a Thai chile-lime butter with watermelon radish for a refreshing opener, while tilefish on a bed of

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Other guide picks 1

Dakar NOLA

$$$$African, Senegalese

Note: Temporairly closedWith roots in Harlem and Senegal, Chef Serigne Mbaye cooks from the heart and draws on flavors from across West Africa. Once a pop-up supper club, the restaurant has found a home along Magazine Street in a cottage in Uptown. Two seatings a night flow at a leisurely pace in a dining room fit with modern light fixtures, dark wood tones, and African artifacts. The tasting menu is rather steep in cost but certainly yields pleasant compositions like a finely spiced soup of okra, fish broth, and crab or Gulf fish with jollof rice, sauteed sweet potato greens, and a peppy tama

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