Antoine's Restaurant

02/16/09

Elegant dinning, excellent food

by Lgrang at Citysearch

Wonderful Valentine dinner !!! The ambience, the service, the food, the history...all perfection. Don't miss the Oysters Rockefeller, Creole Gumbo...never had any as good as this. Ship the salad..very ordinary. Filet Marchand de Vin...no steak knife here....butter knife cuts it with ease. Tout Pontchartrain....moist fresh with enough crabmeat to make another course. The wine list, one of the best we have seen anywhere and we are well traveled. The waitstaff are all polished and experts in their field...our waiter Tim , was personable, attentive and very knowlegable. After dinner we were treated to a tour of the restaurant...not to be missed. Each dinning room..all 14 is full of history and beautiful artifacts of New Orleans. The price is no more than any other restaurant of it's class but no price can be put on the such an experience. We can't wait for our next trip to New Orleans to be able to enjoy such an outstanding dinning treat.

• Pros: Ambience, service, outstanding food and wine
• Cons: not any

12/16/08

Overpriced Tourist Trap

by beaumarc at Citysearch

Our initial impression was wow, a restaurant that had been in business for 168 years! The food would have to be good to stand that test of time!

Boy were we wrong! The food was more like a Denny's or possibly even a McDonalds.

First off, we didn't have reservations so we were seated in the front room which could truly stand a make over. The ambiance was boring and cheap looking. Their was no music to create ambiance.

The waiter was professional and prompt. That really was the only thing that was truly good about the experience. We ordered off their "December Revellion Special". We both had the Oyster 1-1-1 which was most likely frozen before it was prepared. The tiny oysters were smothered in some sort of sauce that was obviouly frozen before it was prepared. The Salad was pretty much romaine lettuce and some sort of dressing. The main course of meat and fish was also prepared on some other day. The food was not fresh. The fish was overcooked and tasteless. It was so bad that we didn't finish it. A true testament to a bad restaurant. The desert choice that we selected was the Pecan Bread Pudding which used Hershey's syrup and the Chocolate Mousse which was so cold and hard (from being in the refrigerator so long) that it was esstially tasteless.

Our misery was quite possible due to the fact that we ordered off the "Revellion" menu but, please, you would of had to work really hard to make a meal that bad!

• Pros: Location
• Cons: Too pricey. Consistent Poor Quality. Did not live up to the hype.

09/26/08

VERY DISSAPOINTED

by amosbrown at Citysearch

I lived in NOLA for awhile, so I've been to most of the restaurants and had some amazing meals. I ordered the oysters rockefeller (for which they are known for inventing) and the pampano pontchartrain. I've had much better oysters in new orleans and they were over cooked and not good at all. The fish was over cooked, cold and bland. The service was also horribly slow even though the restaurant was empty. Maybe people have figured out this place is certainly not worth the price and stopped coming. If you want a fancy meal go anywhere but here. Lastly, there were plenty of tourists there in jean shorts and sandals.

• Pros: very historic building, great wine selection
• Cons: very overpriced for quality of food, very slow service