Bistro Daisy

A lovely house and setting– a nice evening! A super pretty lemon drop cocktail to start… hubby had an amazing mushroom soup with goat cheese (why didn’t I think of that!), and I had a the apple and endive salad. Both yum! He ordered sauté of gulf shrimp and I had the fish of the day (a huge portion. could only eat one of the three pieces). Saved room for the lovely baked Alaska– tangerine sorbet around vanilla ice cream with amaretto créme anglaise – amazing! Service was relaxed and spot on.

Very romantic and personal. Definitely a hidden gem. We had a great time and the food was excellent. I had the filet and my wife had the fish special. Both were cooked perfect.

The best place to eat Uptown, bar none. The food is to die for. Don’t agonize over what to choose. Just blindly lay a finger on the menu then look: it’s gonna be awesome. Friendliest hostess and staff in town. I’d eat here every evening if I could.

On many an occasion I’ve passed this little restaurant up – either going to Whole Foods or driving home to the LGD. And always, I’ve wondered what it was like inside. On Saturday, I ventured in here to finally break the mystery. (I’ve been on a mission to check out new places, or places that are new to me – I make a list of all NOLA has to offer and when it comes time for dinner, I always blank on where to go. Hopefully, that is changing.)
So, we make a reso on a whim on Saturday, and bring a couple with us from out of town. Cute and cozy interior with a small bar.
After being seated and getting some drinks started, we order some oysters for the table and I get the garlic soup with shrimp and bacon. Fabulously creamy and great to prime the pump as an appetizer. The guys cornered the oysters and made them disappear within minutes. (I managed to get a scrap of them before the vultures descended, and they were quite nice. For some reason we were all expecting oysters on the half shell and were pleased and surprised when they came out in a fragrant broth instead – super tasty.)
And then, they dropped the entrees, and I kind of forgot about most of the (honestly, forgettable) meals I had had recently. My meal was the filet with a generous pat of truffle butter melting on top, swimming in a delicious sauce accented with mushrooms and diced potatoes. When I say this was the best steak I have had in the past year – I mean it. Cooked perfectly, the meat pretty much begged me to eat it, and so I did (and didn’t share, much to my boyfriend’s sadness.) Seriously, everyone – absolutely delicious from beginning to end. My dining companions were raving that this was the best meal they had experienced in New Orleans, and they’ve been all over the city.
Service was prompt and cheerful, delivered by a wonderful server with vibrant purple hair.
All in all, I’m putting this one in my back pocket as my new favorite for birthdays, anniversaries, and Saturday nights when I need to stuff my face with something delicious. If only I had known!

I brought my SO here last night for her birthday dinner. We like to eat early, so naturally when we arrived, the hostess informed us we were opening up for them for the night. Cool! That means no one ahead of us to delay our food, right?! ;)
Anyway, I started with an Old Fashioned. My SO unfortunately had a headache earlier in the day and had taken medicine. So she responsibly turned down any alcohol, except for a taste of my drink. And on that topic, my OF was strong and tasty.
We started with two appetizers: the lump crab served over sliced beets with croutons, and the special for the day — lamb meatballs with vidalia onion and a Parmesan cream sauce. The combination of the crab and beet was… interesting. I would never think to combine those two, but it worked. And it worked well. The lamb meatballs were cooked and seasoned very well; we definitely could tell it was lamb. And the Parmesan sauce was an excellent complement to them.
For our entrees we ordered the lobster ravioli and duck confit dishes. The lobster raviolis were stuffed full — awesome — and the sauce was very cooked. The only issue was the pasta itself seemed a little undercooked. The duck was excellent. It came over roasted veggies (mainly cabbage, I think) and had an orange glaze and brandy reduction. It was the quintessential classic duck dish. And why mess with a classic. The dish just works.
For dessert (of course we had dessert, it was her birthday!) we ordered the classic crème brûlée and the baked Alaska. The crème brûlée was classic, with a fresh strawberry on top.
Now, the baked Alaska… Holy crap. It was LEMON! The cake portion was… I don’t remember. But the ice cream portion was a lemon ice cream. And lemon is my favorite. It was unbelievably delicious. And the meringue was tasty as well. But the lemon overshadowed everything, and I was more than ok with that.
We thoroughly enjoyed our dinner at Bistro Daisy. It was a very good, classic birthday dinner. A solid choice.

I choose this place on a whim for my post-​graduation celebration meal and, let me tell you, I am so, so glad I picked Bistro Daisy. We received excellent service. Even before our meal, we needed to push back our reservation time, and it was no problem at all. Our waiter was attentive and knowledgeable. We started with the oysters, which were delicious. I got the duck, which was incredibly tender and practically fell off the bone. My boyfriend ordered the chicken and devoured it in no time. We split the basked Alaska, which comes with a layer of pineapple sorbet. It may well be my new favorite dessert. It’s a fairly small restaurant, so the atmosphere is very quaint and intimate. It’s a great place for a special occasion.

A step back when servers knew the art of service and chef made each dish perfectly. Clean, fresh dishes made for the educated palate and artfully presented.
The flavors of the fish, lamb and both desserts were precise and balanced. We can hardly wait to return. Service was perfect. Wines offered by the class very tasty and well selected

Nice little place with excellent service. I had:
fried green tomatoes with crab appetizer
duck entrée
crepes for dessert
Duck was excellent. I might try one of the salad options for a first course next time — I saw them on other tables and they looked delicious!

Nice atmosphere and good service. Food was average at best unfortunately as I had high expectations. Food was cooked properly but flavors fell flat.

Phenomenal service. The duck was insanely delicious. Best duck I’ve ever had. The fried oysters were amazing as an appetizer. The crème brûlée was fantastic as a finish. What a great way to end the day. Well done!!! Everything was A++. Will come back for sure.

I’m not sure how many five star ratings I have given, but I am sure it is less than five. Bistro Daisy definitely deserves the honor.
I went last week for the first time in five years. Five years ago I really enjoyed my meal. In fact, I remembered it being one of the best meals I had had in a long time. I believe I had a veal shank that was braised with raisins and nuts. It was absolutely delicious.
So I had high hopes when I went back and was not disappointed. The space itself is very quaint. The building is essentially an old shotgun house that has been turned into a restaurant. A very small bar greets you at the front door, followed by a very small dining room which has around 10 to 12 tables. It is very simply but tastefully decorated. Nice touches include vases of flowers in the entry and candles on the tables. The dining room is also very tastefully painted with a beautiful faux finish ceiling. It is a very romantic setting.
The menu is not particularly large, but it is certainly big enough. My lovely dining companion and I got the same oyster appetizer which has been on the menu for some time. It’s essentially poached oysters with fennel, herbsaint, bacon, and cream along with some torn bread. It was delicious. We ordered different entrées. She ordered the roasted chicken with porcini dust. What is Porcini dust you may may ask. Well it is just like it sounds — dried porcini mushrooms that are processed to dust. The chicken is coated with the dust and then roasted. It was absolutely delicious. I had the duck which was a sliced breast which was cooked perfectly and served over a crêpe filled with duck confit and clementines. A stellar dish.
The wine selection is also very good with excellent selections at excellent prices. There were plenty wines by the glass to choose from. The service was also very good as was the front of house. Finally, the prices were extremely reasonable given the quality of the food. I would say that Bistro Daisy ranks as one of the best value restaurants in New Orleans.
I can’t wait to go back.

Go-​to place for our family dinners when everyone is in town. Very yummy food and good sized portions. Very friendly servers. Nice ambiance (lively in the small dining area but not too loud at all). Would definitely recommend if you want to try a new restaurant Uptown.
Favorite dishes: daisy salad, chicken (I know, who gets chicken at a New Orleans restaurant… do it!), crawfish ravioli

Friendly little Uptown place. A bit loud, but it was JazzFest weekend and crowded. The boneless leg of lamb and the duck leg were both scrumptious. And here’s the best part: no corkage fee! We brought a wonderful Petite Syrah a friend had given us, which made the dinner all the more special and delicious. Oh, excellent service too.

This is a great place for a date! Cute little New Orleans cottage converted to a quiet restaurant with a casual yet upscale ambiance. The service was perfect from the hostess to the waiter.
We had an appetizer special– tuna with pesto and crostini that honestly didn’t blow me away. But our entrees were outstanding. I had the gulf shrimp sauté with grits and goat cheese. They easily accommodated my request for no meat on the dish. The wine was delicious-​Pinot Noir.
I’ll definitely be back.

Went for the second time this past weekend. Had probably been just under a year since my last (read: first) visit. Again, we were not disappointed.
Daisy is a small house with two dining rooms with a few little nooks and crannies. It’s not ostentatious at all. The service, atmosphere and reputation are all very approachable and pleasant. You don’t hear much about this place in local magazine, blogs or other publications. It’s just an old-​school, nice neighborhood restaurant. I like the unassuming aspect about it.
With that being said, the food is still the star here. so here’s a few points.
APPS
jumbo lumb crab in horseradish aioli with chilled roasted beets, tornbread croutons and chives 10
— I had this both times and each time it was great. Served chilled, it’s a delicate, light start to a meal. The beets are sliced super thin (perhaps a little too thin on this most recent visit) and the lump crab meat is of excellent quality and the tastes are all there. Horseradish could have been a tad more prevalent but I know there’s a fine line there you dont’ want to cross. Goes great with the rose they offer by the glass.
gulf oysters poached in Herbsaint cream with bacon, fennel, spinach and tornbread croutons
— so deliciously rich it’s almost too much for an appetizer if just one person is taking it down. but that shouldn’t stop you from ordering it. everything works so well in this dish. the sauce/​broth everything sits in is a perfect marriage of herb and seafood stock flavors.
*note: they featured a seared yellow fin tuna app this night but had run out because of a mistake by the supplier.
ENTREES
bouillabaisse of fresh gulf seafood in a saffron and Herbsaint broth with a grilled croûton and rouille
— I’m not a huge seafood eater, especially for my entrée, but my girl is and she loved this dish each time she ordered it. Says it’s second only to Lilette’s bouillabaisse. The oysters, shrimp and mussels were all prepared well and had soaked up that great broth, but the and fish (think it may have been a grouper collar?) was a little overcooked and tough. Overall a really good dish because that saffron/​Herbsaint broth packs such a delicious, complex punch.
pan roasted and porcini dusted chicken over roasted mushroom, shallot, asparagus and ricotta gnocchi with a thyme reduction
— that thyme reduction is one of the best sauces I’ve had in recent memory. it was so delicate and subtle with these layers of all the other ingredients (I’m guessing they deglazed the pan with a chicken stock?) making up a very good base for the dish. the chicken was a large portion — breast, thigh and wing — and was cooked so so well. Very moist meat, not overcooked at all, and that skin with the powdered porcini mushroom dusted on it was out of this world. I’m stealing that idea for sure. Gnocchi was a tad over but I can forgive that because everything else was done so well.
braised lamb leg over goat cheese polenta, grilled red onion, arugula and pine nuts with a tomato-​rosemary ragout
— Braised lamb leg. Unless they screw it up it’s a hard thing to not go crazy over. And at Daisy it was really tasty, but it nevertheless gets upstaged by the goat cheese polenta which is maybe the best polenta I’ve ever had. The caramelized red onion for sweetness, arugula for bitterness, pine nuts for texture, tomato for acidity, and rosemary for some nice earthiness. just makes up for a well-​rounded dish that is certainly worth ordering.
OVERALL
Fantastic little restaurant. Intimate without being über romantic. good for a date spot or even better a double-​date where you can order family style and try all of this wonderful food.

Discovered this gem of a restaurant and it has made my must visit list of places in New Orleans. Savory and delicious food selections along with a diverse and decent wine list. Service was very good. Our waitress had a particularly high knowledge of the wines on the menu. And we were allowed to enjoy ourselves without constant interruptions. No problem with table conversation even with a full house of diners.

Bistro Daisy is top notch from start to finish.
My husband and I celebrated our 1^st wedding anniversary this past weekend in New Orleans, and chose Bistro Daisy as one of the restaurants to celebrate our special occasion. We knew we were in for a treat, as we had dined there two years prior, after getting engaged.
The quaint yellow «house» that Bistro Daisy operates out of is absolutely charming, and truly adds to the warmth and uniqueness of the entire experience.
This recent trip, we started with a wonderful glass of Champagne, and my husband began with the Daisy Salad (fresh mozzarella, roasted peppers, arugula, and pumpkin seeds with white balsamic vinaigrette) while I had the soup on special (I believe it was leek soup with parmigiana and truffle oil) – it was Heaven! I absolutely loved this soup… it made me want to lick the bowl, which few dishes ever do! (I’m a tad of a food snob).
We then moved onto wine, ordering a great red (Turley Zinfandel 2010). It was smooth and delicious.
For my entrée, I chose the Filet (grilled filet of beef over Lyonnaise potatoes, spinach with Amish blue and red wine demi-​glacé and truffle oil) and my husband chose the Duck (crispy seared leg of duck confit topped with breast slices over spinach, almond and toasted garlic couscous with apricot and brandy reduction). Both entrees were scrumptious, with each bite better than the last.
For dessert, I had called ahead and asked them to create something special for us for our anniversary. Our wedding cake was vanilla with lemon and raspberry layers, and I requested they make a play off those ingredients. While it was simple, they did not disappoint! We were served a wonderful lemon tarte with fresh raspberries and a sprig of mint. It’s true that sometimes the best things in life are simple and straight-​forward, and this was a perfect example of that – absolutely divine.
I am thrilled to say Bistro Daisy is the first 5-​star rating I’ve given on Unilocal.We can’t wait to dine there again, celebrating another wonderful year of marriage!

Gem. We brought our own merlot and we ordered:
–Soup special of the day. Some sort of eggplant parmesan concoction. It really made my companion’s day. As soon as he tasted it his face lit up and between his happy slurps he informed me that, being a foodie, he doesn’t just toss his compliments around, but that this soup was FANTASTIC.
–I got oysters for my appetizer. They were cooked with herbsaint and other delicious things and they were perfect.
–He ordered the special flounder of the day — they have a daily fish special — he cleaned his plate so I can only assume that it was great
–I got (borrowing from the website): sauté of gulf shrimp in a pancetta and sun dried tomato beurre blanc on roasted garlic grits with mirliton, peppers and onion — you betta believe I cleaned my plate
–Dessert 1: Chocolate soup with strawberries and white chocolate floating things
–Dessert 2: Strawberry shortcake and cookie, I think. Something delicious.
I realize I am being very vague but I hope that I have succeeded in making your mouth (s) water… Our bill came to $ 76, but my friend was our waiter. The vibe is great, reminds me of Boucherie, but a little quieter.

Any visit to NOLA should center around food, and even though there are a lot nice restaurants in more touristy ares of town like the Quarter, I like to dine where the locals do. And since most of the reviews about Daisy were written by locals, this was my place. When we got there, it was pretty much a local crowd. An excellent sign.
Daisy is a small, intimate restaurant in Uptown. There can’t be more than a dozen tables in the entire restaurant. Set in an old house, the rooms are small, which makes it a great place for date night (and even though I love the friend I was with, I would have much preferred to dine with my partner alone that night). There is a small bar in the front room and a small patio on the old house where I guess you can wait for your table.
I can say we had the best meal during our trip to NOLA at the Daisy. The Daisy Salad wasn’t anything special, but my partner’s Baked Oysters were incredible. My pasta dish, the ravioli topped with crab, was equally delicious. My partner and our third wheel date both had the shrimp and grits and both were pleased. No as good as my ravioli, but still good. We had the best Crème Brule I think I have ever had for dessert.
Service was a little spotty and the timing of the transition from our appetizers to our entrée to our dessert was a little off. Other than that, it was a perfect evening. Next to Dick and Jenny’s, my favorite restaurant in NOLA.
NOTE: Parking is only available on the street, and at best, two-​three blocks away.
Highly recommended.

Simply amazing.
I had heard great things about Daisy and was excited to finally get to eat there on a recent visit.
My starter was the «Daisy Salad» which was a lovely little caprese-​ish salad. Nothing revolutionary there, but it was delicious. My boyfriend had sweetbreads & cheesy grits. I may have grabbed the pot of grits for a bite and finished them off…(soooo good!). I had the most beautiful ravioli as a main — filled with marscapone and dressed with browned butter, leeks, and lump crab. 5 giant ravioli was more than enough. They were so delicious. Quite literally the best ravioli I have had in my life. I wanted about 3 plates to take home with me! For dessert I had the crème brûlée, which was lovely. My boyfriend had the peach sorbet — I stole some tastes and it was delightful as well!
Definitely a place to go if you visit or live in New Orleans. Great service (so friendly!), great food, great place!