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New Orleans

Creole institutions, Frenchmen Street jazz, and oak-lined streetcar rides — our local guide to eating, exploring, and staying in New Orleans.

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Mid-City

One of the country’s largest urban parks, City Park is a sprawling green escape known for its grove of centuries-old live oaks draped in Spanish moss. Wander Big Lake, rent a pedal boat, or visit the

City Park

NOMA holds a strong collection of French, American and African art in a stately Beaux-Arts building at the entrance to City Park. Just outside, the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden sets more

Bayou St. John

A local favorite for po-boys since 1911, Parkway does the New Orleans sandwich right, from roast beef dripping with gravy to fried shrimp on crackly French bread. Order at the counter, grab a cold dri

French Quarter

Since 1961 this bare-bones French Quarter hall has been a shrine to traditional New Orleans jazz, with no drinks, no frills and world-class musicians a few feet away. Sets are short and run several ti

Uptown

The olive-green St. Charles line is the oldest continuously operating streetcar in the world, rattling under a canopy of oaks past Garden District mansions, Loyola and Tulane universities and Audubon

Uptown

The Chloe turned a stately St. Charles Avenue mansion into an intimate boutique hotel with just over a dozen individually designed rooms, layered wallpapers and vintage furnishings. Locals come as muc

Uptown

This 1883 Italianate mansion on the streetcar line has long been an Uptown gathering spot, recently refreshed with a stylish restaurant and bar. Rooms lean historic and characterful rather than cookie

Warehouse District

Consistently rated among the best museums in the country, the National WWII Museum spans several pavilions of immersive exhibits, restored aircraft, oral histories and personal artifacts. Plan for at

Marigny

The quintessential Frenchmen Street club, the Spotted Cat is a small, sweaty, no-cover room where trad-jazz and swing bands play nightly and dancers spill toward the stage. There is no food and it can

Uptown

Named for a Professor Longhair song, ‘Tips’ has been an Uptown temple for New Orleans music since 1977 and is now owned by members of the band Galactic. The calendar runs from brass bands and funk to

French Quarter

Why it matters: This woman-owned company, founded by Christine Miller, runs small-group walking tours led by knowledgeable local guides. Choose from French Quarter history, Garden District mansions, c

Wallace (River Road)

Why it matters: Whitney is the only plantation museum in Louisiana that centers the lives and voices of the enslaved rather than the enslavers, with memorials naming thousands of people held in bondag

Treme

Why it matters: Started by Willie Mae Seaton in the 1950s and carried on by her family, this Black- and family-owned kitchen earned a James Beard America’s Classic award and rebuilt after Hurricane Ka
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