The Best Restaurants on New Orleans’s Magazine Street Uptown | Eater New Orleans
"At Dakar, the 2024 James Beard Award winner for Best New Restaurant, Serigne Mbaye’s dazzling Senegalese tasting menu is the pride of New Orleans. At a beautiful communal dining room on Magazine Street, Mbaye serves a changing menu of seven courses, elegant riffs on traditional West African and Senegalese dishes that incorporate Louisiana ingredients. The soupa konja may call to mind a gumbo, tangy with tomato and rich with palm oil, textured with crispy puffed rice and balanced with sweet, cool crabmeat. The crunch of the shrimp akara is otherworldly, and the sear on the Gulf fish yassa is delicate, nestled on a bed of soft mushrooms and eggplant in a citrusy sauce. This is transformational dining at its very best." - Beth D’Addono
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