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LA · Lunch
A good lunch gets two hours of your afternoon back. A bad one costs three and you spend it wishing you'd eaten at your desk. Harry has done the triage so you don't have to.
Lunch in New Orleans is a different meal entirely. The debris po'boy from the place that has existed since your parents were young. The cup of red beans and rice that costs four dollars at the counter of a diner nobody has photographed for Instagram. A city this good at cooking should be your best lunch of the year.
| Time value | Lunch has one rule: you have to be back. Harry accounts for service speed — a venue that takes ninety minutes to get through a two-course set is a dinner restaurant wearing a lunch menu. Great food at the wrong pace is still a bad lunch. |
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| Harry Score | The composite score from Google, Yelp, Tripadvisor and critic signals — but weighted for lunch-appropriate venues. A Michelin-starred dinner restaurant that runs a mediocre midday service scores lower here than the counter spot that does one thing at lunch and does it perfectly. |
| Worth It score | Lunch should not cost dinner prices. Harry's Worth It score flags places that charge a reasonable amount for what they deliver — and flags the ones that decided a sandwich is worth twenty-eight dollars because it comes with a view of the open kitchen. |
1300 St Bernard Ave First Floor, New Orleans, LA 70116, USA
2901 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70115, USA
307 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA
1625 Baronne St, New Orleans, LA 70113, USA
3214 Burgundy St, New Orleans, LA 70117, USA
1839 Gentilly Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70119, USA
3987 Tchoupitoulas St, New Orleans, LA 70115, USA
535 Decatur St, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA
339 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA
920 Gravier St, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA