Wow Cafe

Met 3 friends at Wow for lunch, great location.
casual atmosphere wonderful food and the managers
Brad and Mike do one heck of a job!
loved the burgers and ribs, unique sauces set this place
apart from the tourist traps.

Seated and sat 20 mins without drinks or orders. Spent another 30 mins after getting drinks waiting on orders. Don’t waste your time go somewhere else.

It was delish! Had the burger and Shanghai po boy shrimp. Our waiter was an awesome friendly gentlemen also

After leaving a weekend in New Orleans for a football game I’m super happy we chose to stay at Double Tree. The location was great and so was our experience in the Wow Café. As, what the actual hotel lacked this little café made up! The bartender Stephanie was friendly, funny and just wonderful! In fact every employee we met in the café was very friendly. The hotel was mmhh far as rooms, housekeeping and front desk. However, great location. The bell hop and valet service was great to. See you on your next trip in January wow café.

While we did only eat here because of our very late arrival after a long day of travelling, the service was great and the food was much better than expected. We ordered chicken fingers and expected small, frozen, over-​cooked crap. But we got huge, juicy, properly cooked real chicken. The bartender also recommended a drink that is now my husband’s favorite. While I would not go out of my to eat here, especially while in NOLA, it works when in a pinch.

We had the Caesar and the gumbo. They salad was awesome, the gumbo was pathetic. They were out of the beer I wanted. The atmosphere was casual, and busy for the time of day I was there. They were hosting a radio show, which was loud, but kind of cool I guess. I wouldn’t be back.

I was afraid after reading the reviews but turned out not bad. We had salad, burger, chicken fingers and wrap. Everything was good. Service was good, didn’t take too long for food but they were not busy

The uptown and mid city wow wingery’s went out of business for 2 reasons. 1. Poor service. 2. Poor management. This one is not far behind. I brought a city dining coupon to use and the manager, knowing good and well the mid city location was closed down, told me I could only use it at mid city. I explained I went there first, only to find they were closed, and would have to go back uptown to get the card for the canal st location, but the manager would still not honor the mid city card. So I had to cancel the entire order, and will also be canceling the catering order for my firm on Monday. This place is a joke.

The food was good but that is about it. We were one of three tables in the place when I came by and it toke 45 mintues for us to get our food. I expected better customer service and more of a new orleans atmosphere to the place but got neither.

Don’t go here to eat. The honey bbq boneless wings are disgusting and so is the Mac and cheese. So gross

We ate here for dinner one night simply because we were staying at the hotel and didn’t have time to go elsewhere. My expectations were extremely low given that many hotel restaurants are overpriced and low quality, and that the Unilocal reviews are pretty abyssmal. That said, my experience was not as bad as I was expecting and was actually better than our experience at Daisy Duke’s a couple nights previous.
My husband and younger stepson had wings, which they said were ok. Older stepson had a chicken sandwich that he said was «eh». I had the asian shrimp po-​boy which, though it couldn’t compare at all to the delicious one I had at Commerce the previous day for lunch, was not terrible. The mac & cheese was pretty standard fare, nothing gourmet but certainly edible. Our server was friendly and efficient and our wait was not long.
The meals were overpriced for what you get, but not in comparison to most nearby restaurants. 10% off coupons are actually not to hard to acquire.
It’s absolutely not a destination. Don’t go out of your way to come here. If I had much choice I wouldn’t waste a meal in a foodie city like New Orleans eating mediocre pub food. But, if you’re staying in the hotel on business and you just need a quick bite and don’t feel like going out in the heat or waiting in long lines, it works.

I was down in New Orleans for vacation, and found that the only reason anyone would go to WOW Café is if they were traveling and didn’t know better. We sat for a good amount of time before anyone acknowdged our existence and the place was empty to begin with. I think we ended up not really having a server, but more the less having staff happen to stop by if we were making it obvious we needed something. The food was TERRIBLE on a very confused menu. In the heart of New Orleans I bought a fried shrimp po-​boy, and it was the worst thing I’ve ever put in my mouth. That is the only time I have ever sent food back at a restaurant out of sheer misery due to eating it. The friar oil must have been months old. Talk about a place that takes no pride in its work. It looked clean though. You get one star for that.

I’m usually against hotel restaurants because they tend to be overpriced and poorly ran. This was not the case.
After being at a conference all day, I wanted something convenient and reasonably priced in comparison to convention center food. This place did not disappoint. The service was great, the menu selection is big and I balanced a slightly higher class appetizer with the traditional chicken tenders and french fries. Both of my choices tasted great.
We went right at lunch time and got one of the last available tables, they were accommodating and apologetic to the people who had to wait and even though the place was packed, my diet coke never got below half empty.

Good food. This restaurant was within walking distance to our hotel and a great find. I had the Nola shrimp po boy and red beans and rice. No complaints. Everyone was super nice. Great place to take the family for an easy dinner.

I’m really not sure why it is called the Wow Café because it certainly does not Wow. This Wow was in our hotel so I went down for breakfast one morning and literally sat there for 15 minutes with no one coming over. Granted, they were busy, but still…
I walked over to PJ’s coffee and came back to sit down at my table and still, nothing. I finally just grabbed a plate and went to the hot bar and grabbed some eggs and toast and sat back down. When I was done with my meal, the server came over and apologized and asked what I wanted.
Really? My check. I just finished my meal and you didn’t even know it. Good think I am somewhat of a nice person because I clearly could have left without him even knowing it.
The Wow Café does not wow, skip it!

Less than mediocre. The only good thing about this restaurant is the sauces or flavors they carry for the wings and even then it’s not worth me coming babk.
In addition to the wings, I ordered the catfish platter. Which was underwhelming as well. I was worried that the Unilocalers before me were just being dramatic and didn’t give this place an honest chance. But unfortunately it’s true. The food and the service sucks.

If a snail and the service in this place were in a race, the snail would look like Usain Bolt! The food was decent, well, the sweet potato fries were bomb with the «Canadian sauce» two thumbs. The wings were cooked all the way through, no pink at the bone, bonus for that.
To sum it up, sweet potato fries yes, wings probably, service — — –oooh Nooooooo

RUN AWAY!
I am reviewing the restaurant only…
The food was awful, had the rib combo. Boiled fatty ribs with cold sauce plopped on top not even covering the white fatty meat. No grill marks. The best part of the meal was the cold old French fries .
The service was fair we «dined» in the bar area.

Service was okay. Smelled not too good inside for my sensitive vegetarian olfactory system. Had a veggie wrap, extra tomato, ranch on the side. (Why is ranch on everything in this town again?) Wrap was actually pretty dang good! A nice break from all the greasy friend food I’d been scarfing down all week while I was in NoLa for a conference. Veggies were fresh and the Spinach wrap was appreciated. The mac and cheese was creamy as heck, but couldn’t deceive if Velveeta was an ingredient or not.
Expensive for what you get, just like everything in this part of New Orleans. I wouldn’t go out of my way, but if you are staying at the Double Tree totally fine for a quick lunch or snack if you are short on time. They do the room service too which again would be totally fine for such purposes.

Ended up here on an LSU game night when everywhere on Fulton Street was packed. It’s kind of an odd location because they can use their restaurant space and the hotel dining space across the hall to seat customers. They also get all the food delivered from what I suppose is the hotel kitchen in another part of the building rather than that kitchen being next to the dining area. Some of the food even comes out with the silver covers over it like room service.
Anyway, despite the unusual functioning of the restaurant, the food was much better than the other WOW I’ve been to. We had onion rings that were well seasoned and a large portion. The tenders with sauce were really good – way more food for the price when compared to their wings. The side of macaroni and cheese was mediocre, but not inedible.
In general, you won’t find anything special here, but on a pretty busy night the service was good and the food was as expected. We would come back.