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LA · Fancy restaurants
The birthday restaurant is the one people cite for years. That is the bar. Not the balloon. Not the complimentary dessert. The meal. Harry ranks the ones that earn what they cost.
New Orleans has two kinds of fancy: the old-line Creole institutions (Commander's Palace, Dooky Chase) and the newer room doing serious contemporary cooking. Both are worth your time; they are completely different experiences. The old institutions are about ceremony as much as food. The new ones are about the food.
| Critic signal | At the fancy end, professional review signal matters more than aggregate stars. A Michelin star or a consistent Eater/NYT review trail is factored into the Harry Score. Harry doesn't dismiss critics. |
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| Not a tourist trap | Expensive tourist traps are more expensive than cheap tourist traps. Harry cross-references tourist vs local scores at the fancy end to filter rooms that charge serious money for tourist-grade cooking. |
| Harry Score | The composite from Google, Yelp, Tripadvisor, and critic reviews. At the fancy end, Harry filters for places where the composite is high across all sources — not just tourist-facing ones. |
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