Sainte Marie

Other Recommended Restaurants: Ste. Marie's is located in the CBD of New Orleans' downtown. The menu is eclectic, featuring American meals. local fare and even some naan. Head chef Kristen Essig has made this hip city bistro come alive with her brilliant dishes. One must run the gamut when ordering here. A specialty cocktail must precede an appetizer, which comes before an entree that will be...

Michael Friedman, co-owner of Pizza Delicious, reports that he went to Jazz Fest last weekend to see Phish, and returns on Saturday to see Bruce Springsteen after making Bucatini all'Amatriciana with guanciale at the Food Heritage Stage, for the fourth year. "It's a really good time and we're in the grandstand which is air conditioned. There's always a built in crowd waiting to use the...

File this one under shocking switcheroo. Todd A. Price reports that CBD hot spot Ste. Marie will shutter for good during the second weekend of Jazz Fest— Sunday, May 4, to be exact— while owner Robert LeBlanc and company pack up shop and move onto Rampart, where they'll reopen recently-shuttered Meauxbar Bistro the last week in May. LeBlanc just purchased Meauxbar (the building and name) from...

WWLTV's The unknown food critic heads over to Ste. Marie in the CBD this week, for "a great turn around story" and a FOUR STAR review. Looks like Un McKnownty has now been forced to don... oh heavens, is that, could it be... a beret to hide his renowned critic-fro (or else someone has shorn said fro into some Bywatery Kid N Play deal) but that's okay, let's all just go with the Napolean...

While The Sazerac gets the Eater Elements treatment today on Eater National, over at CBD hotness Sainte Marie, bar director Murf Reeves is celebrating New Orleans official cocktail with this Eater Cocktail Week specialty: The Audubon, a tequila-based Sazerac variation, which includes whiskey bitters, "illegal mescal," and the essential Herbsaint rinse. Drink this cocktail now.

From OpenTable:

Sainte Marie, a restaurant by Robert LeBlanc of LRG located at 930 Poydras, A New Orleans brasserie, with French foundations and Louisiana inspiration. Ste. Marie brings the varied culinary styles of New Orleans using fresh, locally sourced ingredients prepared simply yet with excellence. Craft cocktails and an eclectic wine list , all of which are set in an alluring...