Restaurant August New Orleans

Restaurant August sits on Tchoupitoulas Street, housed in a 19th-century French-Creole building. It is a fifteen-minute walk from Canal Street and marks a boundary between the central business district and the riverfront.

The kitchen focuses on contemporary seafood, treated with a technical precision that feels notably more restrained than the heavy, traditional preparations found a twenty-minute walk away in the French Quarter. While the room runs smart and elegant, the choice to dine here is a rejection of the tourist crush in the historic centre. You go to August for a quieter, more deliberate pace, where the ingredients dictate the meal rather than the city’s reputation for excess. It is one of the few spots in the district that prioritizes craft, making it a rare place for those who prefer their dinner served without the background noise of Bourbon Street.