€€€€ • Global • Warehouse District
If you are visiting New Orleans and want one meal that covers more of the city than a weekend in the French Quarter, this is the table. Louisiana Roots. Global Palate. Plates is a shareable restaurant in the Warehouse District's Cotton Mill building where every culture that shaped New Orleans cooking gets its own plate.Chef Farrell Harrison sources Gulf seafood from local fishermen and rotates the menu with the season. The garlic shrimp, patatas bravas, wild mushrooms, and puff-puffs, West African beignets with cinnamon sugar, are the dishes regulars never skip. The Old World wine list leans Spanish and French, and happy hour runs daily with $8 cocktails.The room seats 150 with private dining for groups of 10 to 250, steps from the Convention Center and the National WWII Museum. Weekend brunch brings bottomless mimosas and chorizo hash. Walk-ins welcome at the bar. Reservations on OpenTable for dinner.