Li'l Dizzy's Cafe
Creole restaurant · Treme
1500 Esplanade Ave, New Orleans, LA 70116
Highlights
Soulful Creole cooking with famous fried chicken & gumbo
Soulful Creole cooking with famous fried chicken & gumbo
"Li’l Dizzy’s Cafe is open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. " - Atlas Obscura
"Offers Trout Baquet and crawfish bisque, presenting both a trout-centered entrée and a rich, shellfish-based soup." - Clair Lorell
"New Orleans nearly lost this Treme institution during the pandemic, but a third generation of the Baquet family came together to reopen the family-owned favorite. Li’l Dizzy’s serves dishes like grilled catfish and grits, gumbo, po’ boys, and top-notch fried chicken in a quaint, low-key corner building on Esplanade Avenue with walls covered in New Orleans, Saints, and Baquet family memorabilia." - Beth D’Addono
"Li’l Dizzy’s Cafe has been a Treme institution since 1947. While perhaps best known for the Baquet family’s fried chicken and gumbo, the po’ boys are outstanding, all three flavors: shrimp, hot sausage, and fried catfish. The setting is friendly and lively, a neighborhood icon." - Eater Staff
"Lil’ Dizzy’s Cafe has a history that reaches deep into the neighborhood, owned by the Baquet family whose New Orleans roots go back centuries. That Creole file gumbo you’re slurping is from a family recipe that the Baquets have been serving for decades, and thank goodness it’s still around." - Beth D’Addono
