New Orleans Famous Beignets And Coffee

For the first time it was good, line was long but worth the wait. Had me some beignets with hot chocolate, yum.

For my money, once you’ve checked Café du Monde off your NOLA bucket list, walk a few more steps uptown and come here.
Number one, you won’t wait forever in line or for somebody to wait on your table. Number two, they’re the same price as CdM. Number 3, they’re BETTER!
These little pillows of yum are more like fried puff pastry, incredibly light and delicately crisp. Topped with a judicious quantity of powdered sugar, you get them hot and fresh because they’re not being made and served by the thousand. I pretty much thought a beignet was a beignet, but these are the best!

Try out the pignay, its amazing! Its a small cozy café in new orleans, and right next to jackson square. The staff is friendly and the prices are very good as well. I will come back here in the future.

We got the original beignet’s yummy! We also tried the New Orleans coffee with Chickory. We really liked it. Friendly knowledgable staff.

MY LORD! The best god damn Beignets I’ve ever fucking ate my whole entire universe. I mean you get it all warm, with tons of powdered sugar. And one bite is so succulent, the moistness of the flavor just comes right down your throat! AMAZING! I would go to New Orleans Famous Beignets and Coffee.

Line at Café du Monde was WAY too long… so we stopped here as it was right next to CDM. Indoor and outdoor seating, line moved quickly, live music (even at 9am). Staff was extremely friendly.
Beignets were lighter than CDM, which we preferred. Not expensive. Coffee was great (I have a soft spot for dark chicory-​blend). Wake up here.
Great alternative to CDM.

Way better than Café du Monde and right across the street. These beignets are light, flaky and coated in powder sugar. Tasty and only $ 3 for three! Their $ 6 stuffed beignet was heavenly. It was stuffed well, covered in étouffée sauce and served on jambalaya rice. My favorite was their grits and smoked sausage. For only $ 3 you get a large container with the creamiest, tastiest grits you can imagine and a large couple chunks of smoked sausage. The chicory coffee was great but you have to specify you want it that way or else you get plain coffee. Friendly staff. We saw regulars/​locals there every day. Only downside is the limited hours.

Awesome and fluffy beignets too yummy. And the gumbo… gaaaaaawd the gumbo… just try it. And Francis is sooooooo nice and friendly

Im a tourist, and have been here a few times because Café du Monde lines were unbearably long. Beignets are awesome and flaky, and so nice to get them and eat them with a view of the river. Customer service has been medicore but when you’re in and out so fast it doesn’t really matter. Were out of a few types of drinks last time but once again, just a quick morning trip so wasn’t a big deal.

This place is so gooood, beignets are buttery, flaky, and light and sweet or savory. Get the pig nay, or the stuffed yay, or the originals they arw all good. Evwn to the minute they were closing their pastries were perfection. Mad our entire geoup regret going else where during the rest of our trip. you will not regret it

This is an alternate to the highly popular Café du Monde, since it’s literally ½ block away and has much shorter lines. You are less likely to be standing in the rain here. They have more savory items on their menu, and are counter service, unlike their conpetition.
The beignets reminded me more like croissants than beignets. I also tried the pig in a beignet and sausage and grits. Didn’t really like those though since the sausage was a little weird.
I’d prolly stick to the CDM line next time.

Yummy, flaky, buttery beignets!
Wandered here when the line for Café du Monde was around the block. This place had a shorter line so we decided to try it.
The beignets were melt in your mouth yummy! They are not the traditional style – lighter, fluffier – but they were delicious. They were also cheaper than some other places at $ 3 an order.
Highly recommend!

Not sure why this spot doesn’t have TONS of reviews yet but it’s an overlooked AWESOME FIND. They have THEE BEST beignets in all of New Orleans! It’s not open 24 hours, only from 8 – 12 I believe.
I was on a quest for the BEST beignets — I ate beignets from multiple places and I literally found this place a block down from Café Du Monde, on the same side of the street. Due to the obscene line up at Café Du Monde I was discouraged and started pouting because I didn’t have time for that kind of line for beignets because I was in route to a walking tour staring in an hour.
So I started looking around and saw another green and white sign steps away with a moderate line up. So I thought what the heck, I’ll try This place now and Du Monde’s after the tour.
Let’s me tell you and SAVE you the calories or curiosity! This place has HANDS DOWN a THOUSAND times better beignets. THIS is what you imagine a FRENCH doughnut to taste like in every way! Those of you that have eaten pastries and desserts in France will LOVE this place over Du Monde’s without a doubt.
The beignets are AIRY, light, flaky, slightly crisp as you bite down into the soft, warm perfectly mastered fried dough. If you are a FOODIE please trust me on this one. This place perfected the beignets– the French would agree! Best when eaten moments fresh. The taste of the dough itself is SO good you don’t even need all the powdered sugar the Du Monde’s covers their beignets with.
Du Monde’s were the complete opposite. They were heavy in weight, dense, a bit chewy in texture, and the dough stuck together when you bit down on it. There was no «crisp» factor as you bit into it.
If I didn’t try the beignets HERE I would have thought, Meh, I am not a beignet fan but… not all beignets are created equally!
Enjoy!

Beignet’s that taste like microwave toaster struddel with powdered sugar on top.
If you go, I recommend the seafood stuffed Beignet — I think it had chicken and crawfish and some other stuff, comes with rice which is decent.

I wanted to try allllll the beignets in Nola. On our last day there, I Unilocaled beignets and found this place. We gave it a chance and thank goodness we did.
These beignets are different from those from Café Du Monde. These are flakier, lighter and less doughy. I still like the ones from Café Du Monde just the same. These are just different and good in their own way… we came in a little after they opened up. There was no wait and the lady serving us was very sweet.
We ended up just sitting outside and enjoying our beignets and café au lait in the beautiful weather. (75°)…it was kind of bittersweet, in my opinion, because we were taking of in a few hours… we ended up ordering another batch. Later, we were contemplating on buying some to go, but I was afraid they weren’t going to sit well, being fresh out the fryer into the bag = soggyness and pasty confectioners sugar. We ended up not ordering it to go… I should’ve asked the lady to fry some up but then let it cool down a bit before putting it in the bag and dumping the sugar in it… ahhh, regrets…

Like its American cousins, I never met a beignet I didn’t like. Of course, everybody visits Café du Monde. Café Beignet’s two locations are also very popular. There are many more beignet shops in town. But this place may be the sleeper among them all.
Café du Monde is just down the way so perhaps grabs all the attention and tourist traffic. But this spot is definitely worth skipping the others for if only for their beignets which are quite different from the other local mainstream shops.
Where the other beignets are soft and pillowlike throughout, these are lightly crispy, flaky and crunchy on the outside and then soft on the inside. The outside crunches almost like a toaster strudel. Covered in powdered sugar and accompanied by an iced chicory coffee… laussez faire les temp roulez!
They also have outside and inside (air-​conditioned) seating.

My list for best beignets in New Orleans:
1) Café Beignet
2) Café Du Monde
then 3) this place, New Orleans Famous Beignets.
These beignets are not like the ones at the other two places. They are not very doughy, puffy or fluffy. They are thin and kinda reminded me of puff pastry. I also didn’t think their café au lait was as good as the one at Café Du Monde. It is worth a try but I won’t be back.

Pastry like beignets, light compared to Café du monde, with powdered sugar & beignets with sausage on a sick aka ‘Pig-​nays!’ Yum!!!

They will charge $ 3 for hot water. But still, I like their beignet better. It is fluffy and light, not quite doughy like.

Don’t compare it to café du monde and you will enjoy it. The beignets are good and there is no line usually. Personally, I prefer Du Monde!
There and half Unilocal

Am Ufer des Mississippi unweit des Jackson Square gibt es zwei Möglichkeiten, die typischen Beignets zu verkosten — der Österreicher würde «Polsterzipf» dazu sagen — ein in Fett herausgebackener Germteig /​rechteckiger Krapfen mit einer Tonne Staubzucker oben drauf. die übliche Portionsgröße sind drei, zu zweit hat man allemal genug von einer Bestellung. Eine Schlange bildet sich hier den ganzen Tag, sie ist etwas kürzer als beim nahegelegenen Tipp aller Reiseführer. Die Bestellungen gehen schnell, die freundliche Mitarbeiterin hat trotz der Hektik ein freundliches Wort für die Besucher übrig und die Beignets sind ein Traum. Ein Tipp: Nicht essen, wenn es windig ist, der Staubzucker verteilt sich überall!