If you can get a reservation, I highly recommend this dining experience! Did the wine tasting pairing and loved their descriptions of each wine. These flavors were so detailed and well thought out! The snapper fish was cooked perfectly with the most delectable sauce!
I cannot stop dreaming about this place…from the moment we walked through the door we were greeted with positive energy from everyone that worked there. My mouth is still watering just thinking about all of the delicious things I ate and drank. It was a magical dining experience that everyone should spoil themselves with!
This establishment is incredibly versatile and a real diamond in the rough. There's a bar; great for aperitifs, a nosh, or even a bottle of wine (or two) from their fantastic wine list. You can take it home with you OR enjoy in the courtyard! Dinner in the dining room is intimate, charming and personal. I highly recommend the wine pairing, of course! Definitely one of the more difficult tables to get, with only 16 seats, but it makes for an experience like few others.
Had a reservation for my wife’s Birthday. Turns out the 3rd week of every month is a vegetarian menu only. This is not on Resy, it isn’t clearly on the website until you dig down deep, and it wasn’t mentioned in the email discussion the dinner and potential dietary restrictions. This is something that should be more prominent, when you attempt to book, as should any shift from normal paradigm for any restaurant. When I finally called I also got the distinct impression I wasn’t the first person who didn’t realize this and had an issue with it. The hostess was also a big cagey as though she had been caught. I’m sure the place is great, but it put me in a real bind trying to find a restaurant last minute after waiting for 29 days with what I thought was a normal reservation.
The tasting menu is incredible, and while it is expensive, you do get much more food than a typical tasting menu and its a really good balance of flavor and presentation. I've done other tasting menus that really go for the "wow factor" and thus create a one bite dish that isn't really that good... Saint Germain doesn't make that mistake, you will leave full and impressed. In fact, the simplest course, bread, was my favorite. If you're deciding on a splurge meal in New Orleans, choose Saint Germain.
Fun place. We drove by it at least 20 times and never saw it. Really easy to miss. The bar is cute and the back yard is cozy. The bar food menu is nice. Definitely small snack size portions but very good. The gravel out back makes it impossible to get overly drunk. Hard to navigate while sober.
I loved this little backyard patio. My boyfriend and I stopped in on our way back to our hotel in the Marigny for a drink and some ‘bar snacks’. The patio is self seated and you go to the bar inside to order. The patio is really charming, I loved the lights and French pop music playing. The highlight for me was the setting and seeing the teeniest baby opossum walk through the backyard. A must!!
The pre fixe is arguably the best meal I've had in my 10 years living in New Orleans. Inarguably the most expensive. If you can pay the fare get the wine pairing, it was superb. Also the bar and outdoor dining a la carte options look equally appealing and are much more affordable. We will go back for these.
It’s a cozy atmosphere and the staff was all really nice. Some dishes were excellent some were good and one (Lima beans) seemed a bit out of place. Their butter is amazing! It was a really nice night out! We left wanting just a tiny bit more food though ? I’d come again since they change the menu frequently as everything was inventive!
Overall, fairly disappointing experience.Pros: They were happy to accommodate me as a solo diner, and even showing up an hour before my res, again, were very courteous to seat me an hour early.Meal started off well with a tasty mini cocktail with some lovely bitter green tea to balance the St. Germain and other sweet components. Nice amuse bite of a little piece of fried cheese (excellent) and a green chili pepper (I believe) purée that wasn't remarkable and under seasoned. Excellent bread course of naturally leavened corn cakes. Probably the best bite of the meal.Then things started to go downhill. With some questionable combinations of ingredients in the dishes.First course "Hokkaido Scallop". The most delicate and sweet of all the delights of the sea. It was chopped up / cubed (like it was put through a meat grinder) into such small pieces its place as the supposed star of the dish was lost. Such a delicate seafood drenched in a parmesan soup rendered the scallop practically unnoticeable. Not to mention the bacon in the dish. Using such heavy ingredients does nothing to highlight the scallop which was billed as the centerpiece of the dish. To make matters worse, I opted for the truffle addition ($30) to this dish. Surprisingly, the truffle too was drowned out by the heavy and rich parmesan cream and bacon. There was a fair amount of truffle, but I have never tasted a dish where truffle failed to come through as it did here. Again, the scallop bits were almost indistinguishable in the "soup".Second course: Caviar with bone marrow and chorizo. Again, such questionable combo of ingredients. Using bone marrow and chorizo, two incredibly rich and heavy ingredients and then laying some caviar on top? It didn't make much sense. The caviar is completely overpowered by the marrow and chorizo (which were fine on their own) and didn't offer much texturally. The caviar gives the veneer of elegance but nothing to the dish except adding to price of the meal. In addition, another small complaint, I asked the server how the chorizo was incorporated into the dish before service out of curiosity and he replied with a very casual and uninspiring "you'll see..." Yeah, I did.Third course: Ravioli with white asparagus and prawn (singular). Yes, I know it is a tasting menu but one small prawn in the dish is disappointing, but it was a tasty little prawn. Wish they'd left the caviar off the previous dish and thrown a few more prawns over here. The asparagus was nice and the pasta amounted to three nice bites. Again, with a different server I inquired about the spice used for the base of the sauce, I received another aloof answer something along the lines of "It's an English curry it's so good!" Not exactly the info I was looking for as she had already turned her back on me. Fine enough dish, this is where caviar could have really shined, or another prawn or two.Fourth course: Meat course with a small piece of foie gras on top (that was charred perfectly, best bite of the meal). Don't remember what the cut was (flank or skirt possibly, surely a "Wagyu"...not that that means much these days, necessarily). Again, taking what you are assuming is the highest grade cut of meat you can find then cooking it to a medium / medium well, then drenching it a sweet sauce of some sort...you just totally lost the natural essence of the main ingredient again, a la the scallop. The sauce was so overly rich and sweet, probably a veal stock of some sort reduced to a syrupy sweet glaze. I was able to have a few bites of the meat without the sauce and it was fine enough.Wine pairings were out of the box and on point sans the now ubiquitous orange. Still left a lot to be desired for nearly a $300 meal.