Oceana Grill

From the moment we walked in the door off Bourbon Street this place was fun. We had to wait a few minutes to be seated but they were speedy and very friendly. Our waiter was very nice and the food was excellent.
I got the Taste of New Orleans plate. I couldn’t have been happier with the food.
A+ place in my book! We will be returning.

Louisiana Crabmeat cake.
Delicious sauce, great cake, is tipical cajun spice season and the lettuce make a great sensation in mouth with the crab sauce. In the dish is accompanied by two cakes and cost $ 15.
Duck with Jambalaya. I love the smoked duck, tasty great, not dry, the rice is delicious, fluffy and very well seasoned, the vegetable could be a litle more seasoned, but is wet, is a good balance for the dish.
The attendants are great!

The best part of this restaurant was our waiter Ashleigh !!!
The food was one step above fast food
I had the crab cakes that were dry with no taste.
Some people in our group enjoyed their food but I really didn’t and don’t like eating in a cattle car atmosphere

This review is specifically for the $ 25 three course add-​on to the Taste of Nawlins tour.
Pros: Exceptional staff. Everyone we encountered, from the friendly host to the manager who helped us re-​schedule our reservation (and graciously allowed us to show a phone-​screen coupon for our meal when we couldn’t find a printer) was great. Our server, Michon, was also wonderful and friendly and gave great service. The bartenders we encountered earlier in the day were slightly less friendly, but I’ll give them a pass because I can’t even imagine being a bartender between the French Quarter and Bourbon Street. The place is also decorated well and the drink menu is full of expensive-​yet-​delicious drinks. The prices surprised me, but they’re typical for the area. Also, the dessert (sans whipped «cream» but I’ll get to that later) was amazing. I could drink the praline sauce and die a happy woman.
Cons: It’s probably our own fault for doing a coupon on top of a coupon, but the «Three Course Meal» menu was incredibly under-​whelming. For one, the first option was either a salad or gumbo, and we had just sampled the gumbo on our tour. It’d be great if something else was offered, since we’d already had their gumbo. For the second course, I ordered the «Blackened Catfish» and my fiancé got the «Blackened Chicken Pasta» (the other option was a po’boy, which we’d already sampled on our tour – we wanted something different!). The chicken was so bland. Our tour guide warned us that many restaurants shied away from over-​seasoning since tourists can’t stand it, but the watery alfredo was disappointing. My catfish tasted incredible but was a bit undercooked. However, it was perfectly seasoned. I nibbled at the sides but the rice was very dry and I’m not a huge fan of collard greens, so I mostly just ate the fish. Finally, the bread pudding with praline sauce, which our server assured us was the best thing on the dessert menu. And yes – it was tasty! However, the whipped «cream» definitely was NOT cream. It tasted like someone just pipped cool whip onto the plate, and it separated as it melted on the hot bread pudding. Gross. I’d come back for the pudding, but definitely ask for no cream.
Overall, it was not the most memorable meal we had during our stay. However, the prices are reasonable for the area, and other reviews seem to suggest our experience wasn’t typical. Next time perhaps I’ll stop in for lunch and give them another go. In the meantime, I really suggest they take another look at their Taste of Nawlins menu.

Oceana= Major Key Alert!
Casual and fun vibes, delicious, fair prices, and you’ll get a 10% coupon in your cab from the MSY airport! And a 10% coupon if you check in on Unilocal!
Signature dishes you must order: crabcakes, BBQ oysters, alligator sausage, seafood gumbo, and the redfish oceana.
And top that off with a hurricane– welcome to New Orleans!

Where do I start a review when everything in our dining experience was a home run?
We were in town for one night. After walking through the French quarter Oceana was recommended by a couple NOPD officers when I asked for good authentic seafood that wouldn’t break the bank.
We knew it was good when there was a line. However we didn’t wait any longer than 20 mins. They escorted us in to the third floor and this place is so cool on the inside. Rustic but the smells coming from the kitchen were awesome and inviting.
Our waiter (Mike — an aspiring actor from Michigan) quickly got to our table and took our drink order. He was top notch. Very friendly and helpful. We started with the gumbo as an appetizer. It was my fiancé and 16 year old son. So having a teenager can be a challenge when you want to try something new. The gumbo was amazing! My son said the best he’s ever had.
I had the red fish special with collard greens and a crawfish sauce on top. My son had the crab cakes with collard greens and mashed potatoes. My fiancé had The Taste of New Orleans. My son said «this is the best meal I’ve ever eaten in my life». Words can’t describe the amazing food and experience.
This is a great family place and reasonable in a city filled with the best restaurants.

Best crab cakes I have ever had! Definitely worth trying the gator bites too! The place is vibrant, right next to bourbon street and has the New Orleans buzz! Totally worth the visit.

The Restaurant was like 3 stories! Great customer service. It was just freezing inside! Very hard to enjoy dinning in. I had the shrimp po boy. It was my first experience. I thought it was only ok. The bread was really hard to eat so I just picked at it. Still looking to get a good po’boy.

AMAZING! I died of how good the food is! Defiantly would come back! came back the next day for dinner again so happy with the food! When I come back form Los Angeles I will gladly come back!

We went here with a 3 yr old — bit hesitant because it’s right next to bourbon street. This place is really kid friendly, awesome food and great service
Their golden Margherita was out of world — so was redfish blackened

After cruising down Bourbon street we decided to try some more amazing seafood that this town has to offer! We came across Oceana, which had a line down the block, so we knew it had to be good.
We waited only about 20 minutes or so to get seated, so worth it! Our server was very helpful and friendly. The interior had a great jazz feel, fits in perfectly with the charm of the French Quarter. We came in around dinnertime but I understand they serve until 1am!
I went with The Cajun Sampler, which had jambalya, shrimp creole, and I can’t remember what else, but it was outstanding! Babe had the special of the night, which was about $ 25 for Redfish (generous portion) with mushroom shrimp cream sauce and fried shrimp with a side, so good!
This place is worth the wait if you are looking for authentic Cajun in the French Quarter!

yassss! First restaurant I tried in New Orleans and I am already so impressed by all the items I ordered. My family is visiting from Taiwan so we wanted to go to a local restaurant. I saw oceana grill is rated pretty well and everyone is down to get seafood. I made a reservation in advanced so we didn’t have to wait at all. I know shortly after, there is a line outside waiting to get in the restaurant.
Anyway, I got some recommendation from the waiter and we ordered the famous crab cakes and raw oyster as appetizers. Uh let me tell you, the crab cakes! It’s so good, the mushroom sauce goes so perfectly with them crab cakes. I didn’t have any oyster but my brother and dad both seem to enjoy it!
For entrée I got redfish oceana, fried shrimps Poboys, jambalaya pasta, and praline duck to share. I really wish I can tell you what I like and what I don’t like but they’re seriously all amazing! If I have to pick one within the entrée, it will probably be the redfish oceana! It’s sooooo damn good :)!
Oh and great service as well, I will definitely recommend to anyone looking to try new places!

Just passing by New Orleans on my road trip. I stumbled upon this place and asked my server Errol, «How can I taste Louisiana cuisine?» He told me to get the «Taste of New Orleans». So I got it and wow. The food tastes like what I imagined I would taste in creole/​Cajun food.
Overall, the food was great, the place had a great vibrant feel to it, and the server was very helpful and welcoming.

Tourist trap with a sandwich board in front, horrible décor, and pictures of the food on their plastic menu.
When there’s so many great places to eat near by, why bother? We left after the appetizer. Gumbo… Nothing but rice and salt… Charbroiled oysters, drowning in a heavy fishy sauce served with a side of stale bread (also covered in sauce to hide the fact it was stale) and crab cakes… We were told they were the house specialty. The sauce. Oh my word. More off putting sauce all over everything. The crab cake itself had the texture of sawdust.
Please. Don’t waste your hard earned money.

I dedicated my energies on my NOLA trip to eating all of the Cajun food and Oceana was the best of all of the restaurants I tried. I am not a local, nor a connoisseur of Cajun food, but everything that we tried here was excellent. We started with the Gator Bites, which were served with a spicy remoulade. The meat was a little chewy, but the sauce was to die for. Who cares about the meat with sauce like that? For our main dishes, we had the crawfish etouffé and oyster po boys. The etouffé was perfectly seasoned, and for such a heavy dish, felt suprisingly light. The po boys were the best we tried on our trip. The combination of the fried oysters, crispy bread, and remoulade was delicious. The service was also excellent and I liked the casual ambience.
Oceana was a little pricier than some of the other places I ate in the Quarter, but I honestly think it was well worth the extra money for the quality.

We honestly weren’t very impressed with the food here. (Service on the other hand, was great!) Maybe we didn’t order the right things?
The only dish we thought that was decent was the crabmeat cakes, which was smothered with a creamy mushroom sauce. This was moist and flavorful!
The rest of our items were just meh. We asked which is the best po’ boy here, and our server replied with the shrimp po’ boy. The bread itself was too crispy and hard for our liking… it didn’t fit comfortably in our mouths and we felt like we would have ended with a cut in our mouths or something! Haha… we ended up ripping a lot of the bread out and putting them to the side. Other than that hassle, po’ boy was fine. Definitely skip on the oysters! We tried both raw and chargrilled. Raw oysters had sand and even pieces of shell in the oysters. I even had to pick a tiny piece of severed shell that was piercing one of the oysters (see pic!). Not sure how they missed that before serving it out? The chargrilled one had decent flavor, but it was quite chewy! Both didn’t taste very fresh either.
I will say this place is located in a convenient location, right off of hectic Bourbon street meanwhile still being in the French Quarter. If you dine here, I say stick with the crabmeat cakes and avoid the oysters!

Hands down best Po Boy we had all trip (and we had a quite few…)
Loved this restaurant — came back multiple times for the Bloody Marry’s.
Loved the small dimly lit atmosphere. There was just something about this place.
Great food, great drinks, great service.

Ok, I’ll admit it. I was a bit intoxicated when I came here. But honestly, you will find the best fried shrimp po boy here or probably any other po boy for that matter. I have had other po boys come and go, but this one has stayed on my mind forever. Was it the mayo? Or the onions? Were the shrimp covered in a secret seasoning? Was there something special in the coleslaw or remoulade? It was everything. The whole mix of flavors combined into one mouth-​watering po boy. So. much. flavor. Truly the best po boy in town… though I haven’t had them all, this is the best I’ve ever had. And yes, I am quoting Drake.
My girlfriend had the Taste of New Orleans sampler platter and was equally food-​struck (and equally as intoxicated). Our compliments to the chef all around. We made a big showing of it that New Year’s Eve… likely because we were inebriated but more so because the food was so dang good. I’ll have to return again in the future, just to go back to that sweet, sweet bliss of a moment with my po boy.

I truly enjoyed my dinner at Oceana. One I want to commend them on A-​1 service. We were a small group of four but David was an excellent server. Full of knowledge of the dishes and menu as a whole.
Every dish we had was delicious. I had the barbecue shrimp ($ 20) 10 jumbo size shrimp and bread for the sauce. I also ordered the side of red beans and rice ($ 4).
Because I was headed to Bourbon next I avoided a cocktail here and just had the sweet tea. It was good.
I would certainly come back again. Excellent food and service paired with a great location in the Quarter.
Good for groups. My friends and I were there in Jan 2016

The Crab Cakes topped with Crawfish was the highlight to me. Everything else was just typical overpriced & just OK to me. My nephew loved his Root Beer Float, but nothing else truly stood out for the French Quarter prices. The wait was ridiculous but it was Spring Break week and there was pretty much a line for every Restaurant in the Quarter & I had hungry kids to feed.

I really really really like this place! It’s touristy yes but it’s the best touristy place on bourbon street! Or right off…
Beers are your standard ones, Bloody Mary strong, very prompt fast seating and service. Jamie greatest us right away and got us started with drinks and apps. Great recommendations, the shrimp was the best, gator pretty good but the sauce great!
Jaime was amazing, she took my dietary restrictions to account and gave me the toast duck, no backening and sos. So I knew it would be a tad bland but no it was great!!! I got the sautéed crawfish plain, yes!!! So good! She even took the colored greens back to get me broccoli, very sweet’
I’ll be recommending this to all my friends, when they travel here! Thank you

Thursday late night –11p. Nice crowd, good atmosphere! Good service and good food.
Bonus was the 10% discount for checking in on Unilocal!!!
The food:
Shrimp po boy — was good
Crab cakes — creamy deliciousness!

Went here on out first night in NOLA with my spouse and sister-​in-​law. The place was great-​very cozy and has a lot of character. We were greeted by friendly and very attentive staff.
The food was incredible! Don’t say no to the oysters because they were sooo good! One of the best that I had so far. We ordered half a dozen of the Oceana’s famous oyster and half a dozen as well of the Rockefeller oyster. I’m so glad that we tried both because it was really good! The flavors were spot on!
We also ordered the fried seafood platter (very fresh, very large serving size!), crab cakes (will make you crave for it! A must try!), and Red fish Oceana (very fresh, flavorful, and a little spicy!).
We did not order dessert because we were so full! The serving size is huge! Overall, we had a very nice experience and we will definitely go back there when we visit NOLA again next year!

Experience with wait staff here is incredible — 5 stars for sure. This 3-​story establishment seems to have cemented its way into the mouths and hearts of many French Quarter patrons and tourists, but I am not sure why. Ok, from that point, I should say I was only looking for non-​seafood food. So, ignore my two cents if you were/​are here for the seafood.
What can you get if you don’t want seafood? Pasta. Meh. Salad. Meh. Fries. Meh. Cajun stew. Meh. Everything else, you should worry about having seafood and/​or meat somewhere in the mix. So, be aware. Not the best place for food that is not seafood. It’s the unwanted step-​child approach to the veg food here in the sense that they acknowledge a need to have it as part of the menu family to be fair, but doesn’t mean they want to really give any time and consideration for these choices.
However, really, the service here is fabulous. Thanks staff of Oceana. Impressive attentiveness, politeness, friendliness and efficiency!

After spending most of our night on Bourbon street, my group decided to stop in and grab something to eat. Our attention was caught by the menu that was placed outside. There seemed to be a lot of good things to choose from and so we decided to get a table. We were taken upstairs and got a table in the corner. Our server was either very inexperienced or just impatient because she kept rushing us. We were a party of 10 people and we needed time to look over the menu. She acted very rude and we didn’t like it.
BLACKENED BAYOU DUCK– Smoked duck then blackened and topped with a crawfish mushroom cream sauce
This dish was very good and flavorful. It was packed with different spices and had many layers of flavors. The duck was beautifully cooked. It was tender and juicy and I absolutely love the mushroom cream sauce. It had a nice thick consistency and was so creamy.
SURF AND TURF
This dish was okay. The beef was cooked nicely and had some nice flavors, but it wasn’t as flavorful as the other dish. The oyster was friend and was a bit too dry for my taste.
BANANAS FOSTER ICE CREAM CAKE– with caramel, strawberries and chocolate
I really like the moist cake and the fruity strawberries and the rich chocolate. It was a nice way to the end the meal with something cold, but sweet.
NEW ORLEANS BREAD PUDDING– with praline and rum sauce
This bread pudding was very moist and I love the rum. It had a nice sweet alcohol taste to it and tasted very nicely with the sweetness of the dessert.
Overall, I would come here again, but I would definitely pass if I end up with the same server. I really like some of their dishes and I taste the complexity of the layers of flavors; so I hope to try other dishes like those.

Came here for dinner on a Saturday night (reservation recommended). This place had a very interesting layout. It’s very big, three stories high with seating on each floor and very dimly lit. It’s a pretty fun and laid back atmosphere.
Darrick was an amazing and informative server. He gave us great recommendations and they were all wonderful. I ordered the alligator bites half fried, half blackened with a cup of gumbo. Everything was very tasty and flavorful and this was the best gumbo I’ve had in a minute. My friend gave me the rest of her crab cakes since she was so full. I was apprehensive to order the crab cakes because I’ve never had one that tasted good. I so regret not ordering my own they were the best I’ve ever had! The best part was the crawfish sauce they served on top of the cakes, so yummy! Wish we had room for dessert, next time hopefully.

Muy buen sitio, atención de primera y excelente comida, nos hicieron un descuento que viene con esta aplicación, úsalo!

Super schön und mitten im French Quarter gelegen. Nahe zur Bourbon St.
Das Essen war super lecker — Gumbo danach Blackened Redfish dazu einen gut gemischten Cuba Libre

Haben zur späten Mittagsstunde hier gegessen und uns dabei für frische Austern, barbecued shrimp und blackened Gator bite po-​boy entschieden. Das Essen war gut und das Po-​boy Medium spicy.
Das Restaurant war sauber.

2,5 stars
We had dinner there and it wasn’t as good as much we paid.
The redfish was dry, the BBQ shrimps too much spicy so we didn’t feel the taste of the shrimps. Our waitress was kind, but don’t think about asking something to the others because they are too «busy» to take care of you.
However The courtyard is a beautiful place!
Go there if you have tried all the other seafood of the French quarter!