Restaurant August Restaurant Review

301 Tchoupitoulas St. (Gravier St.) Send to Phone

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The flagship of the John Besh restaurant collection is Restaurant August.

Restaurant August is one of our 2012 | Top 10 New Orleans Food Rating Restaurants | Top 10 New Orleans Romantic Restaurants | Top 10 New Orleans Wine List Restaurants |

Watch our exclusive interview with chef John Besh about his book My New Orleans: The CookBook on GAYOT.com's YouTube Channel and view photos of our lunch.

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Open

Lunch Mon.-Fri., Dinner nightly

Features

Romantic setting
Private room(s)
Full bar
Reservations suggested
Parking lot
Business casual

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Great Wine List

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Dining room at Restaurant August, New Orleans, LA

Chef John Besh's Louisiana upbringing and knowledge of cutting-edge culinary trends enable him to compose menus that hold their own among the most stringent standards of fine dining. Firm yet tender puffs of gnocchi serve as tasty foils for blue crab and black truffle in what has become a mainstay offering on a menu that otherwise changes frequently. Anything prepared three ways is worthy of consideration, such as foie gras. Soup, so often revealing laziness in other restaurants, is always a marvel here. Take, for example, a Gulf shrimp and bacon consommÃ© composed with ramen noodles made in-house. Three-course fixed-price lunches are a steal; such dishes as Gulf sheepshead, pan-seared and served with summer vegetable succotash and Silver Queen corn custard show all the polish of Besh's evening feasts. Check out the chef's tasting menu for a food and wine pairing experience. For dessert, we recommend the singular banana rum cake with Creole cream cheese frosting. The somewhat unconventional wine list stands out because of its dedication to European boutique wineries that may not be featured in comparable local restaurants. Refinement rules, from the dark-wood walls and soft lighting of the bar to the gilt-edged dÃ©cor in the main dining room with its four big chandeliers, damask-covered walls and French-style chairs.

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Beautiful Restaurant by spudly on 07/24/2008

Still the most beautiful restaurant in the city, it is not the wheel horse it once was...why?...well it was Chef John Besh's first restaurant and when it was his only restaurant it was truly world class. After several years, plus Hurricane Katrina and more restaurants (Besh's Steakhouse, Luke, La Provence not to mention his stint on The Next Iron Chef) Restaurant August has suffered. Is it still one of the best in New Orleans? Yes. Can you get a sub-standard meal there? Yes. I would still recommend it highly if you have never been and it does still have a certain type of "cache" for some people but those of us who remember it's heydey it's just not the same.

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