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United States historic place
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— Uptown is a large portion of New Orleans settled in the 19th century after the Louisiana Purchase, upriver from the older parts of the city around the French Quarter and the Central Business District. It includes the Garden District, which is popular with visitors. At the upper end of Uptown is the Audubon & University District, and just beyond that the Carrollton neighborhood. The majority of this historic section of the city escaped the great flood of 2005.
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Historic old cemetery with above ground tombs and distinctive architecture. The cemetery has been featured in many TV shows and movies set in New Orleans.
Yes, you can read a book or get a bit of internet time, but this branch of the library is in a 1907 vintage mansion, formerly the home of silent film star Marguerite Clark. This makes it a St. Charles mansion you can see the elegant interior of for free!
The first Saturday of most months, featuring produce, crafts, and free live music. Freret Street just upriver from Napoleon Avenue.
Local acts, good beer and burgers. Soul Rebels Brass Band play every Thursday night, it is standing room only and usually packed to the brim so get there early or expect to push your way through a crowd.
Old mansion converted into a small hotel. One side of the downstairs front has a bar, the other side a live music venue. Cool jazz and gypsy swing in an elegant setting.
Cigar bar; hot modern jazz in a smoky atmosphere.
Coffee House with more than the usual coffee-house folk singers; eclectic line up can also include blues, Cajun, dixieland combos, bluegrass, jug bands, even Hawaiian music. Live music every night.
Legendary Uptown music club with great local and national talent. Take bus, cab, or car, but well worth the trouble. "Tip's" has a 2nd location in the French Quarter too, but this is the famous one.
Very high quality hamburgers
Local favorite for crawfish. If you're not on a diet, get a side order of the fried bell pepper rings.
Corner of Valance (halfway between Jefferson and Napoleon Avenues). The name explains it.
Reasonably priced Mexican.
Excellent Italian style panini sandwiches served from 11AM to 7PM, and they stay open 'til 10PM (F Sa 'til 11PM) serving some amazing gelato.
Traditional po-boy sandwiches, plus seafood and vegetarian dishes, breakfast omelettes and burritos.
Po-boys, plus a bar with local draft beer.
Middle Eastern. Also has branches in Mid-City and Faubourg Marigny.
Mexican, lunch & dinner 7 days a week.
Awesome $10 buffet every weekday lunch, as well as Thursday and Sunday nights. Great food, good value.
Creole and po-boys. Live music some evenings.
Slice Pizzeria is one of New Orleans most popular pizzeria's and Italian eateries serving fresh pizzas by the slice and the pie.
Great fresh deli sandwiches.
Breakfast and lunch, lots of fresh local ingredients.
Truly good ice cream, from a small cup or cone to a huge elaborate sundae. They also make shakes & malts in the old fashioned soda fountain style, and offer many locally made fresh flavors of ice creams, from standard to distinctive, and even a few sugar-free flavors.
The gelato here costs a little bit more, but it is some of the most amazing you'll have ever tasted. 11AM-9PM; they also serve fresh panini and salads during lunchtime.
4801 Tchopitoulas at Bourdeaux a few blocks up from Napoleon. The Commander's Palace of sno-ball stands; ice shaved microscopically fine, flavored with shockingly luscious syrups made fresh every day. Dozens of flavours to choose from, and you can also add whipped cream, ice cream, condensed milk, marshmallows or crushed pineapple. A local legend since the 1930s! Tu-Su 1PM-7PM, open May 1-Labor Day. If they're not open, content yourself with the next best from Tee Eva's or SnoWizard listed below.
The staff of knowledgeable cheese mongers will help you fill your cheese needs. They also make tasty lunch sandwiches to eat there or take out.
Artisan gelato, cakes, chocolates and pastries prepared daily by an award winning team of pastry chefs.
Good sno-balls and tasty pies and praline candy. Try the miniature pies (pecan, sweet-potato, or creole cream cheese), just enough for a snack.
In "The Rink", a small shopping center at the corner of Washington Avenue.
Upscale pizzeria -- they imported a 3-ton wood-burning oven from Naples. Also makes salumi (Italian style cold cuts). Bar with draft beers, wines, cocktails.
Seafood and decadent desserts. Look for the giant frying pan on the side of the building and get ready for great eats. An established restaurant for over 30 years, the Cafe came back big after hurricane Katrina with a new owner, a beautifully renovated interior, and full menu of New Orleans classics with an original twist. Come early for brunch on the weekend or stay late in the bar every night.
Caribbean Latin bistro & tapas
Oysters, oysterloaf. A local tradition for generations. Note: This is a cash-only establishment. There is an ATM inside the restaurant.
Crêpes and other French taste treats, dinner only.
A casual fine dining contemporary creole restaurant set in a mid-nineteenth century barge board cottage. Reservations are not taken.
Casual Southern and Louisiana Cuisine.
Cajun, Creole and po-boys, lunch and dinner. Try the roast beef po' boy, it is the bomb.
New Orleans Magazine Chef of the Year Chef John Harris cooks you an unforgettable meal in this neighborhood bistro.
French Caribbean, dinner.
Latin American & Caribbean cuisine, with Cuban predominating. Dinner Tu-Sa; lunch F Sa, brunch Su.
Indian.
An old neighborhood grocery morphed into a fine restaurant. Veal, pork, duck, etc. Dinner M-Sa 6PM-10PM.
741 State (at Magazine). Italian & pizza.
4519 Magazine, Gourmet food and cooking utensil shop also serves fresh made sadnwiches, salads, and treats at lunch time.
Trendy barbecue.
Popular local chain.
Popular and local uptown Contemporary Creole bistro.
One of the most highly regarded traditional upscale restaurants.
Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse's third restaurant in town; he bought out the venerable New Orleans Delmonico's.
Excellent uptown restaurant!
One of the city's largest selections of beers on tap and in bottles, also serves burgers and delicious waffle fries.
Friendly dive. Cheap! $1 drinks all the time ($2 doubles!)
Very classy (but not high-hat)! Has nice patio overlooking St. Charles Avenue. Free food during Friday happy hour from 5PM-7PM. Small combos play live music many evenings.
Upscale cocktail bar in an out-of the way neighborhood; also serves gourmet small plates. Not cheap, but obsessively high quality.
A favorite local dive famous for dancing on the pool table.
College bar with typical bar food.
Laid back dive. Lots of locals. People like to bring their dogs here.
Drink and have a burger while playing the slot machines or doing your laundry in their coin operated machines.
Nice laid back bar. Mostly locals. Shuffleboard!
Little neighborhood bar. Very friendly bartenders. Chicago Cubs memorabilia all over the place.
Old Irish neighborhood bar. Also serves po-boys and seafood. Their block party on St. Patrick's Day is always jammed.
Hipster dive.
Just an off-beat little bar that knows how to make good drinks. For something different on hot summer days, try the blueberry mojito.
Auberge Nouvelle Orleans
Hostel offers mixed dorms, female-only dorms, and one private apartment with its own bathroom and kitchen. Security lockers provided in dorms. Dorm guests from abroad must provide a foreign passport; American dorm guests need an out-of-state ID and a student ID. Dorms restricted to guests under 40 years of age. Apartment guests need an out-of-state ID or foreign passport and can be of any age. Office open 8:30AM-10PM; arrivals outside these hours are possible if arranged in advance.
New Orleans International Hostel
A block from the St. Charles Streetcar line (Jackson Street stop), features free but slow Wifi, free parking. The place is not clean and the kitchen has two microwaves but no stoves, cutlery or crockery. There is no TV room or lounge area.
Hostel housed in the former Audubon Hotel, offering both dorms and private rooms. All rooms have ensuite bathrooms. Free wifi and free breakfast included. Full bar on site.
On the streetcar line in the lower part of Uptown, an easy walk from several restaurants.
2 blocks from the St. Charles Avenue Streetcar line and minutes from the French Quarter.
One block from the St. Charles Ave. Streetcar Line. Next to the Warehouse District, and 12 blocks from the French Quarter. Famous for colorful banana courtyard, kid and pet friendly and great hot breakfast.
It was built in 1861, and restored and reimagined in 2021, the 75-room Hotel Saint Vincent sits on the corner of Magazine and Race streets in the Lower Garden District of New Orleans.
Small elegant hotel in a Victorian mansion. Also has a great bar and live music downstairs.
Historic bed and breakfast in the Garden District. Complimentary breakfast, private baths, free wi-fi, steps to the street car
This hotel is on the Mardi Gras parade route. Rooms from $159.
A pet friendly, adults only inn featuring a clothing optional swimming pool/spa set in a tropical garden. Amenities include self-serve Continental breakfast, free WiFi, and one free, gated off-street parking space per guest.
Popular creative New Orleans themed t-shirts.
Fine men's clothing. The late Hunter S. Thompson came to town to get a seersucker suit here.
Derby Pottery and Tile
Derby Pottery and Tile manufactues the iconic New Orleans Blue and White street tiles in the American style (since 2003) and Belgian style. New Orleans Blue and White street tiles are indigenous pieces of history unique to the city of New Orleans. Beginning in the 1880s the city of New Orleans has embedded letter tiles in city sidewalk intersections identifying the two street names. In the more commercial districts of the city you will see the name of a business embedded in front of what was, or still is a storefront, especially in evidence along Magazine Street where the Derby Pottery studio and showroom are located. You will find street tiles throughout the city, in all the different Wards, and as house numbers.
Independent book store specializes in local subjects, and usually has a variety of signed copies of books by local authors. Also a small but select case of rare used books.
One of the city's top independent bookstores, tucked on an Uptown sidestreet. Often hosts author presentations and signings.
By streetcar
The St Charles Streetcar is quite a convenient way to get around Uptown, running along the main street from the edge of the French Quarter through the CBD, all the way through Uptown to Tulane…
By bus
Bus 11 is the most useful public transport route (aside from the streetcar), coming from Canal St in the CBD and then running the length of Magazine St through the shopping corridor and on to the…
By taxi
Taxis are reasonably easy to hail off the street throughout Uptown, provided you are on one of the main roads.
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