Ruby Slipper

Had heard good reviews about this chain and were looking forward to but it wasn't a pretty experience at this particular outlet. Food has little taste, somewhat half-cocked. Coffee was nice. The ambiance is great, typical NOLA vibes. You can choose to sit inside or outside. Good mix of vegetarian and seafood options. I would recommend to opt for the one on magazine Street, that might be better. Good drink options. Free Parking available and wheelchair accessible. Servers are friendly. Food quality: 2.5/5 Ambiance: 4/5 Service: 4/5 Value for money 3/5

Been coming here for years and the service has gotten better along with the food. The waitress came be a little more “welcoming”. We order a side order of pancakes didn’t realize it was just 1 the cook came and brought 1 on the house very nice of him & that’s how u get returning customers . Thank you

This place was amazing! From the outside it doesn’t look like much but all The magic is inside! The service at the bar could’ve been a tad bit better but it was a holiday so I won’t be too harsh on service. However, food was amazing. I enjoyed the fried green tomatoes and the French toast bites. DEE-LEE-SHUS. 10 out 10 would recommend ☺️☺️☺️

So we decided to come back for our visit this year and it was just as good as it was last year. Best pancakes I've had in my life. Service was good and I love the set up they have outside.

The Ruby Slipper Cafe was a great dining experience for the family. From being seated outside as an option (not because we had to like at Nice Guys without notice about a $25 credit card hold), to them having things for kids to play with as they wait for their food, I thought it was unique. The options for the breakfast drinks were amazing and paired well with the food, though you can't feel them as much (so the bar tender was more on the lighthanded side of fixing drinks). The pancakes were GREAT! The southern hashbrowns/potatoes were GREAT! I'm not sure about the Omelets because I don't like eggs like that, but I will take my family's word for it because they ordered omelets and liked them as well! My only issue with the food, because I know you are wondering why the 3, is because my daughter asked for fried catfish strips with her food and I wish we would have taken the picture so you could see what 3 thin pieces of MEAT, not fish (cause it was not catfish at all, catfish doesn't even look like that fried), they placed on her plate, for us to have to order her a burger. I also wish I would have said something to the waiter in restrospect about paying for something so unattractive and tasteless, they really put no effort into it. So although, the rest of the food was pretty awesome, the fish was unappealing and how they tried to present it as a meal to a 14 year old which looked like 1 piece of 1/3rd of a chicken tender from Canes served on a small round plate, I am just flabbergasted at who in the kitchen thought that was cool, especially in the South, for people from the South and for a New Orlean's portion. Needless to say I won't be visiting Ruby Slipper again and prefer Cracker Barrel if I'll get pancakes, cause at least I know we will receive the REAL MEAT we asked for and not that processed fried nastiness. Our server had great energy and was helpful except for taking off that nasty fish order, and the atmosphere was 4-star outside, we didn't sit inside.

Ruby Slipper was a pleasant and last-minute surprise. I was heading out from my Air BnB, and many of the former guests commented that they ate at the Ruby Slipper, so I said to myself, "Why not?" Let's just say this place is 10/10 across the board. The food was sooooo good and the service was on point and friendly! This is the best place I ate while in New Orleans, and I regret I went the day I was leaving. I needed at least two rounds of the french toast and eggs benedict. So, so good!

Great place for breakfast or brunch just off Canal St in mid-city. This was our first Nola breakfast outing and it didn't disappoint! My shrimp omelet was great and the biscuits are sooo tasty! Plenty of tables inside, good service and a quiet, chill vibe on a Friday morning.

Update: I'm not sure what changed in two years, but the food seems to have gone downhill a bit. The French Toast bites that we ordered were literally soaked in grease. I took one bite and got a mouthful of oil. Those got sent back immediately. Our Biscuit & Gravy breakfast with fried chicken added was solid...my husband ate it all. I ordered an omelet that came with grits and a biscuit. My biscuit was definitely not the best. It was getting hard around the outside and had a rubbery chewiness to it. I feel like I got a leftover biscuit from the day before. Our service was fast and friendly, so for that I say thank you. My ding on atmosphere is that their dining room chairs are awful! They are not made for a wider backside. 😉 They cut into you because they're narrow, so I found myself sitting on the edge of my seat. YUM! All of the dishes here have a great Cajun twist on traditional breakfast items. The cocktails are half off for their morning Happy Hour(7am to 10 am, I believe). We loved everything we ordered, which was a lot. We got two cocktails(which were $5 instead of $10 each), 3 appetizers, and 1 entree that we split. It was $60 total. Well worth it! Our server was also very fast and friendly! So enjoyable and super glad we stopped in!