Gautreau’s Restaurant

One star for the upstairs dining
room and one star for the hostess that gave us the table we asked for.
Cocktails– very short (about 4 oz) and have never had such poorly mixed drinks anywhere.
Food– very disappointing. Oysters Rockefeller were smothered in creamed spinach and nothing like you would expect.
Speckled Trout– received a small portion with what they call meuniere sauce (They should check with Giada for her recipe. It would be a huge improvement.)
My husband had the Etoufee — he was also unimpressed, small amount of fish and lacked flavor.
Very disappointing experience with so many great options in New Orleans.

The seared scallops and the duck confit are absolutely amazing! Cozy place and off the beaten path from tourists. You’d drive right past it and not even know it’s there! I’ve been here about 6 different times and every time, the food and service here delivers 100%!

My first time at Gautreau’s, and I am really impressed. Ambiance, service and food were superior. I enjoyed a fabulous pinot noir (2013 Ken Wright, Oregon), sweetbreads (unbelievable), pork short ribs (unbelievable), bib lettuce and endive salad.
Others in my party enjoyed the quail and the red snapper special. All were just plain fabulous.
It is no wonder that my neighbors consider this place their «go to» local restaurant for fine food.

I’ve eaten here a few times and each time just gets better. In fact, I’d give it 5 Stars were it not for one issue that I’ll discuss below.
My dining partner and I each ordered four courses and each was perfect. The quail with brioche stuffing was spectacular. It was so good that when I finished I wanted a cigarette. (Maybe that reference dates me.) I would have a hard time pegging the menu with a genre. It’s small yet each dish was well executed.
The service was very good. Consistent without being intrusive. But, I wish waiters in places like this would stop asking every 5 minutes if everything is okay. Just my preference. I expect things to be good. Just ask if I need anything. I will say that for a Saturday night the young manager acted bored.
It is expensive. But, hey…,
The dining room is restrained elegance. It is set in an old pharmacy but you have to look to see remnants of that legacy. The noise level is improved from my first visit.
My only concern is that I have noticed that I’ve never seen a black guest in the dining room and I’ve never noticed a black waiter. I find that troublesome for New Orleans and deduct one star for it.

Had been looking forward to dining at Gautreaus for some time so I picked it as my birthday dinner. I was left a bit disappointed. I have heard such good things about the quaint, neighborhood place, but I was underwhelmed. We started with the scallops appetizer which was the highlight of the meal. The salads were flavorful and unique, so I’ll give them that. My husband got steak and I ordered the grouper. Both fell flat for us. Don’t get me wrong, the food was good, but there wasn’t anything to make it stand out. The prices are also a bit higher than most fine dining establishments in the city. The service we had was great, kudos to good customer service! Desserts were average as well. The ambiance is nice but I’m not going to be hurrying back for the food.

This place is just OK in my opinion. I have been here 3 times and cannot say that the food here is better than average (when it comes to gourmet dining)
The only items worth getting here are the Foie Gras Torchon with Poached Peach and the Duck Confit.
I have had most of the entrée’s here and am not impressed.
If you are looking for cozy ambiance, good drinks, and appetizers, this is a good place to go.
On the other hand, I would not go here for a full dinner. Many better places available

One of the best meals we have ever had. Started with scallops, then okra/​pickled quail egg/​heirloom tomato salad, followed by duck breast and beet gnocchi, finished with chocolate hazelnut terrine. Every bite was amazing. What a wonderful experience.

I’ve been the Gautreau’s a few times. My favorite part about this is how tucked into the uptown neighborhood it is and that there’s really no signage outside making you feel like you’re in on a secret. The food is very good. I do think that it’s the kind of restaurant that if you’re a regular and the know you, you probably get excellent service. But for the rest of us, it just doesn’t meet the expectations I have when going to a fine dining restaurant. It’s expensive, easy to spend $ 70−100/person. I just don’t get the kind of special feeling I do at comparable restaurants (commanders, Galatoires, Broussards, etc). I wish either the service or the food were more spectacular every time I go.

What we enjoyed:
1. Sweetbreads — great texture and flavor… Fresh and perfect.
2. Chocolate caramel tart — pretty amazing creaminess with just the right amount of sea salt on top
What we didn’t enjoy:
1. Braised short ribs — bland flavor, stringy texture
2. Duck breast — a bit better than the short ribs, primarily because of the fig sauce, but still quite bland, despite the decent texture
3. Martini — waaaaay too much sweet vermouth… Seriously shouldn’t be that prominent of a flavor as it was :(especially when we asked for it extra dirty
Disappointing since I picked this as my birthday dinner spot, and every other meal on our trip was better, including the casual lunches. :(oh well

Duck cofit is great. We also had soup de jour which is basil soup, nice.
For entrée, as others reviewed, dishes are not as salty as other southern style restaurants, we had flounder and Ginger Crusted Halibut, the latter is a little too light.
Caramelized Banana Split is great.
The environment is great, there is no sign outside, but inside is totally a different world.

I’m so glad we found this place! there is no sign and the restaurant is tucked away in a neighborhood. The ambiance is definitely classy, but around 8pm, the place is lightens up and not meant to stuffy. The service is great! Highlights included the duck confit… the meat falls right off and the salad is nicely compliments. The chef definitely does fish well! I had the halibut and it was cooked to perfection. The steak was also tender. We didn’t have too much room for desserts, so we shared the banana split. The concept is simple, but execution was perfect! What i loved most was that the ice cream was frozen to perfection so it doesn’t get milky once you dig in.
Advice for tourist: take a walk around the lovely neighborhood!

Totally recommended if you like cockroaches and if you expect to pay the full check if a roach walks on your table!

Awesome food but a cockroach visited our table. The Personnel just said «this happens a lot»…

Gautreau’s might be one of the nicest and coziest restaurants in the city. Unilocal has not been letting me down lately, when it comes to restaurants and I have been having some pretty fantastic luck and discovering a lot of cool places.
We made reservations for Gautreau’s early on a Wednesday evening. We decided to have an early dinner; it was even still light out when we arrived. We were seated immediately, and even though it was early, there was a good little crowd.
Fresh bread was brought to the table and everything on the menu sounded perfect. We started with a poached egg and asparagus appetizer that was served over pasta. When you broke the egg, the yolk ran all over the pasta making for a delicious experience.
For my entrée, I decided to get the special of the day which was a lightly fried flounder served on a bed of vegetables. The fish itself was nice and thin and it was fried just enough to leave it crispy. It was a pretty fantastic dish. My dining companion got the veggie plate which came with an assortment of beets, turnips and carrots. I was able to sample a taste and that dish was tasty as well!
I really loved the atmosphere here. The tables are small, creating a nice intimate setting that would be perfect for a date night.

I went to Gautreau’s to cap off my first trip to the Crescent City. I think if I had went here earlier in the the trip, I would have been more excited, but after five days of gorging myself on NOLA cuisine, I was a little burnt out. That said; the food and ambiance at this restaurant is top notch. This restaurant is nestled into a straight up neighborhood in the Uptown District. The restaurant looks just like another house in the neighborhood. The ambiance was very intimate.
I started with a Sazerac and a Duck Confit. The duck confit was as good as advertised. I would have taken pictures, but felt like it was inappropriate to do so in this setting. In light of the dearth of photos for this restaurant, it looks like the feeling was mutual. For entrees I got the pork Osso Buco and my wife got the roasted chicken. Both were exquisitely prepared, but again, I just was not in the mood to truly appreciate them. We ended the meal with banana split which was awesome. Caramelized sugar on bananas is always a good things. Especially when it is done by experts.
Finally, I was please to see that the Chef was actually roaming the front of the house. I first became aware of Sue Zemanick on Top Chef Masters, and I was surprised to actually see her making the rounds.
Overall, I think I need to go back to Gautreau’s on a fresh palate before I can truly appreciate the finesse and quality of the food. However, even viewed through a haze of a weeks worth grits, po’boys and beignets, the food and restaurant still made a great impression.

Without a doubt one of the best meals of my life. We were a group of seven and not only was the food great but the service was beyond as well. We had the oysters and the scallops for appetizers, a few of us had the soup of the day which was butternut squash. Half is us had the grouper for our entrée and the other half had the special, the red snapper. Everything was phenomenal. Loved the charming yet sophisticated ambience.

My roommate and I each won one of our Fantasy Football leagues, so we decided to treat or ladies to a nice dinner out, and we decided on Gautreau’s.
Our reservation was for 6 — early, I know, but I like to eat dinner early. My SO and I arrived first and were immediately seated, served water, and given a wine list to peruse while we waited for our companions, who arrived about 10 minutes later.
We agreed on a relatively cheap ($ 47) bottle of Spanish wine for the table — Bodegas Pedro Martinez Alesanco Rioja Crianza. For being one of the cheaper ones on the menu, it was pretty fantastic.
My SO and I decided to split our whole meal, per usual. We started with duck confit, served with white beans, roasted red pepper, escarole, and salsa verde. It was delicious. Perfectly cooked, seasoned, presented. We then had the crispy pork belly with sweet potato ravioli, served with mustard greens, pepitas, and pot liquor. Again, delicious and perfect.
For our main course, we had the pork osso bucco, served with apple-​fennel gremolata, spaetzle, and cabbage. And once again cooked, seasoned, presented perfectly.
For dessert we had the homemade sorbet served with fresh berries. This night’s selection was pear-​thyme, strawberry-​piña colada, and raspberry — two small scoops of each. This was my favorite part of the meal (I had an old-​fashioned with dessert as well).
Throughout the meal, our servers were very attentive without being overbearing. Our wine glasses didn’t empty until our bottle did, and our water glasses never emptied. And we always had bread and butter on the table. Our waiter was helpful and knowledgeable, with many suggestions. The ambiance was very nice, and we enjoyed our time there.
But there was just something missing from the meal. I can’t put my finger on it. None of the dishes really gave me a kick in the mouth like I was expecting. Maybe my hopes were just too high…
I’m gonna have to come back to try it again. Maybe I’ll have one of the specials next time.

The best restaurant in Nola you’ve never heard of. One evening while taking a lesiurely uptown drive, my girlfriend and I noticed several well dressed people walking into Gautreau’s and had no clue as to where they were going. We googled the address as there were no signs in front of the quaint non descript building. Only then did we learn that the building restaurant.
We quickly made reservations as curiousity had gotten the best of us.
The parking was beyond easy as we were able to park directly in front of the building. The restaurant itself is very intmant almost too intimant as we could easily here the conversations of others. This was really the only draw back of the whole experience.
I had a well seasoned pork chop while girlfriend elected for the cobia with merlaton slaw (truthfully she would have ordered anything with merlaton in tue ingredient list in preperarion for upcoming merlaton festival.) Her fish was flakey and prepared with a high level of attentiom to detail. The presentation of our meals was spot on.
I remember I had the foie fras app as always and she had something I was interested in stealing so I really didn’t pay that much attention to it.
A great place for a romantic date the delivers great food and easy parking. The closr proximity to parking is important after consuming copius amounts of deliciousness.

Ambience is very nice and romantic. We came on a slow night which was exactly what we wanted. Our dinner date consisted of a lot of appetizers, drinks, and one entrée just bc the I wanted to try just about everything on the appetizer menu.
Food: Duck Confit crispy outside cooked perfect inside with the blueberry balsamic and arugula and Mahon cheese, which I felt was all perfectly compatible together.
Foie Gras: ohhhhh myyyyy gahhhh. I love love love LOVED. And loved. It wasn’t just the foie Gras itself but everything it was paired up with. I wish I could remember what else was on the plate besides the brioche, huckleberry sauce, and toasted brioche but my taste buds were in love. I don’t usually say this but it, it was definitely an orgasm in my mouth…
Scallops: I love scallops. You just can’t go wrong with scallops. They were good, seared just right. …
… I was totally suppose to finish this review but I forgot about it and finally seen it under Saved Draft. LOL! Wow I don’t remember the rest of my meal. Shucks. Well guess this is all I’ve got to post untl next time I’ll update it!

What can I say that hasn’t been said? From the first moment we walked in we were greeted with a wonderfully unique atmosphere and spectacular service. The maître d’ gave a fantastic recommendation for a Spanish wine that ended up preparing beautifully with the food that we ordered.
I ordered the scallops to start and they were really delicious, perfectly cooked and the sauce that they came with was also spectacular! Not to mention the greens that came with the dish they were so tasty!
After reading all the reviews I had to order the duck confit, and I was not disappointed in the least. It was delicious and the other guests in my table thought it was the best dish on the table. My dinner partners ordered the filet and the mushroom crepes, and both of those dishes were also very good. The mushroom crêpes were very earthy in flavor and the filet was perfectly cooked rare.
Lastly I had the rhubarb upside down cake and my dinner partner had the chocolate and raspberry ganache. One word: unbelievable! The fresh herbs added a really wonderful taste to the desserts as well! I highly recommend this restaurant, which isn’t the easiest to find because it doesn’t have a sign. Give it a try next time you’re in the big easy!