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Acamaya
“4.5 across 292 Google reviews; named by Eater 38 and James Beard Foundation.”
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Acamaya
mexican · New Orleans
Bib GourmandJBF · Best Chef: South '26Eater 38
4.5 across 292 Google reviews; named by Eater 38 and James Beard Foundation.
79/100Harry HungryScoreHarry's headline verdict, 0–100. How good the place actually is, once the loud reviews and the timid critics have cancelled each other out.
75/100Worth ItScoreWorth-It Score, 0–100. Whether the bill is fair for what lands on the table. High means good value; low means you're paying for the postcode.
Smart Spend. Harry scores Acamaya 79/100 for quality and 75/100 on the Worth It scale for New Orleans. No paid placements, no affiliate links — just the arithmetic.
Acamaya's credentials read like a critics' darling: a Bib Gourmand, an Eater 38 slot, and a James Beard nod for Best Chef: South. The review numbers don't fully back that up — Google sits at a strong 4.5 across 292 reviews, but Yelp drops to 3.8 and Tripadvisor to 3.7, the latter off just 10 reviews and a rank of #919 out of 2,215 spots in a city packed with restaurants. That's a real gap between institutional praise and the broader public response, and the thin Tripadvisor sample means it's not telling you much either way.