Commanders Palace Reviews

Absolutely amazing. Every bit of it was outstanding. I would come back to New Orleans just for Commander's Palace.

The chef Tory lunch special was delicious. Today it was hake white fish.

Nice classic, high end, fine dining.

Abundant service.

Eclectic menu.

Dress code is Business yester-year: jackets preferred, collared shirts, no open toeed shoes and jeans discouraged. I had to go buy a jacket while on vacation

The Pecan Pie was Awesome

AMAZING, 25 cent martinis limit 3, great food great ambiance attentive staff

Just a great and festive place to have a Christmas lunch. I think its 18 years in a row!!!

I'm in love with the ambient! Service was friendly and polite, the food tasted amazing, you could tell it was very fresh. I personally tried the lamb and because of everyone's recommendation I tried the turtle soup as well, was a bit unsure about it, but boy did it taste amazing!

Fabulous old school, in the best way, dining experience!!!!!

Famous for good reason. Sunday jazz brunch is so fun, and delicious. Always excellent service and great food! Amazing bread pudding souffle!!!

So many courses...so much food. It's a little expensive but worth the food and experience!

We had an excellent lunch here. The food was very good and the service was top notch. I recommend this place as a lunch or dinner stop. Lunch was especially attractive as they had $0.25 martinis (yes 25 cents) during the weekdays.

5 star restaurant!! Fabulous luncheon with great friends.

The 3 cheese sampler was the best food I have ever had. It literally brought me to tears. I had the texas quail and I have never tasted something so delicious.

Perfect. There is no other word to describe it. The atmosphere, the live music, the food, the service, the location. I could never imagine visiting New Orleans without making a trip to Commander's Palace. I would go so far to say that I would make a special trip to Louisiana JUST to visit Commander's Palace.

You'll be greeted with Southern hospitality and whisked through the kitchen - yes, you walk right through the kitchen! - and past the dining rooms oozing with French charm. On the patio, you hear the soft gurgle of a fountain and smell the blooming flowers. A trio of sharply dressed musicians move from table to table, taking requests and serenading away.

I went for brunch, but can't imagine that lunch or dinner would disappoint. The brunch menu is price fix and constantly changing. I dined with three other guests, so I had the opportunity to try a majority of the menu. The highlights were: white peach bellini, turtle soup (a must), chicoy coffee lacquered quail and southern style pecan pie. Mm.

Great restaurant, must do ,when visit NOLA . Located in Garden District area.

Made a reservation and was advised to wear specific attire. I adhered to what I was told. They forgot to mention that shorts, even dress shorts were not permitted. They did not allow us to dine and we watched as a woman in shorts showed up in jeans and a very low cut blouse and was seated.

The hostess was very curt. Would not return.

High priced and over rated. My blue crab was too well done, my wife's meal was dry. Friendly servers but it is so noisy you struggle to visit. It's off the bucket list and shouldn't have been on.

If you visit New Orleans, this is a restaurant that you must experience. It has some of the best food in town and elegantly prepared. It truly is an institution. It is pricey but worth it. Service typically is impeccable. Seafood to die for. Don't miss the turtle soup. (I know. Who would eat that?) It is fantastic. Desserts are killer, too.

Be careful with these martinis, they will drop you like a bad habit. The crown jewel of New Orleans, you must have a reservation made weeks if not a month in advance. Do not be late because they will give away your table, they will always have people willing to come and eat here.

The food was amazing, the atmosphere was great and very romantic. Took my girlfriend there to propose and the staff were a huge asset with it! Highly recommend!

Great food, great experience, celebrated my oldest daughters birthday, food was out of this world , try the turtle soup and the antelope!!!

The food was delicious! No matter what I order I am always excited to try something new. We eat here every time we are in New Orleans. Very accommodating with all 4 of my kids.

*If they know you are a tourist and not local, it seems they will give you bad service because they know there is little chance of you returning.
*2 hour wait even with a reservation.
*We waited 2 hours in a crowded waiting room to be seated and then they kicked us out 45 minutes later because they said the kitchen was closing. No one had even finished our meal and the server presented us with a bill.
*They know that the place is on everyone's "bucket list" so they don't care anymore about giving quality service.
* There are much better places to go in New Orleans, like anyplace else, even McDonalds would be better because, at least it is cheaper and you don't have to wait 2 hours for service.

What a cool experience for brunch. Live jazz and amazing hospitality. Make sure to have reservations, as they are quite busy. Business casual dress is fine (jackets not required for men but suggested). It isn t a cheap meal but I loved all of it. Definitely take your time here- our meal took 3 hours.

Now I know why this place has lasted so long and is so highly rated. Perfect on all counts. From the fresh bread on the table and the massive wine list, to the Crawfish gnocchi, turtle soup, salad, and entrees. Perfectly prepared, courteously served and wonderfully presented. Finish off the evening with their very own invention, bananas Foster, and you have a celebratory meal you won't soon forget. All for $156.00 for two, without tip.

Amazing experience every time we go there. We go there for all of our special occasions such as anniversaries and birthdays. Excellent atmosphere, food, and service.

Delight fine dining. Expensive, but that is to be expected. Staff is attentive, provide great service and extremely welcoming.

I really expected more. Maybe my expectations were too high, maybe it's because we were seated in the secondary building in a hall-like space. Service was fine but the food was just OK. I had crawfish gnocchi and didn't detect either in the dish. DO NOT get the "toast" shot: it was chemically tasting and awful and it STAINS! I suppose I was glad we went but if I had known what to expect I would have skipped it and gone to a place in the French Quarter - Galatoire's, Arnaud's or Antoine's - instead.

Excellent cocktails, excellent and tasty food, great space with large windows and beautiful tree views.

Excellent service and fantastic food the ambiances is amazing, a place fully loaded with history and great food culture. It's an experience cherished and as you sit at your table and look around realising that 10's of 1000's of people have been served and fed there over the decades & all have been greeted with similar warmth and served food made with love, you realise that you've experienced a piece of history. Great Happy History!
The valet are friendly and efficient, dress up for your date or brunch, Commander's Palace is worth it! The 3 piece jazz band are sweet and play beautifully, they mingle and move about the rooms with ease and I do not know how especially with the double bass. They don't play too loud you can still have a conversation and enjoy the music, they do take requests. The food is the real hero so savour it!

Service was one of a kind, but apparently I'm a meat and potatoes guy. A complicated menu, convoluted my brain, and my unfamiliarity with the menu, made it a guessing game, and I guessed wrong.

Unlike any other restaurant experience you ll have. They make Ella Brennan proud! It s understandable they write books about this place once you ve been there!

Off the hook unparallelled food, service and ambience.

Did not eat here but the building is great for pictures and a taste of some of the architecture .

Hands down in my top 5 places to eat. I am still thinking about lunch a month later. I will go back next time in NOLA. Thank you all for a great lunch.

The chefs table is worth every penny...do yourself a favor and just do it. Unbelievable experience....until you do.it...its hard to understand..like becoming a parent haha

Southern dining at its finest. My wife and I attended the new year's jazz brunch. It was our 10 year anniversary, so it needed to be special. The brunch was incredible. From the hostess to the waitress, top notch all the way! We will be back!

If u ever visit New Orleans go to Commanders Palace a great place to eat. When we were there a band was playing around the restaurant as we ate.

Ahhhhhh the best food and experience. My second time trying pork in over 10 years and I loved it!

Excellent dining experience! Since the time we walked in the restaurant, we could tell this is a very well organized place, from the staffs, every display to the every course. Highly recommend if you are in New Orleans!

Food was amazing and the entire staff bent over backwards to make sure everything was perfect.

Growing up in New Orleans, Commander's Palace was the gold standard of fine dining in the city. Somewhere my family and I only went for extremely special occasions and an absolutely fantastic meal.

Having had the opportunity to experience some of the finest cuisine in the country, I can say that Commander's Palace has become extremely underwhelming.

The staff is fantastic, well trained, courteous, and helpful with regards to food and drink suggestions. It is the food that disappointed me. Some of their classics, like their Veal Tchop was not on the menu and they only had one selection for steak. There was nothing unique or amazing jumping out at me from the pages of the menu.

Most disappointing were the desserts. They are trying to turn classic New Orleans traditions into haute cuisine and to me that is the antithesis of what expectations should be at Commander's Palace.

Brennan family, having been to nearly all your restaurants now I can safely say I no longer have the desire to dine at any of them again. Please restore your flagship restaurant to it's former glory.

Get dressed up and eat like a King!!!
Normally when you go on vacation, you don't want to get dressed up. This restaurant is so worth their dress code. Made reservations for 4 (our first time)May 12th 2016 and we were made to feel like royalty. From the appetizer's to the main course & dessert everything was perfect. Our server a very sweet & humorous lady made sure our drinks stayed full and shared what she felt were the best dishes to order. After the meal we got a peak into the workings of the kitchen (very cool). Will recommend this restaurant to family & friends. This is a must dining experience when visiting New Orleans!

Great overall experience a must when in New Orleans food and service were amazing.

Great jazz brunch. Friendly and knowledgeable wait staff. We always felt taken care of. Food was fantastic. Great atmosphere.

Consistently excellent dining experience. Delicious food with a wonderful ambiance.

The service was beyond exemplary. I've done my share of done dining, but I've never had them replace my water glass because it started to perspire. The drinks were quite tasty, and very reasonably priced. In fact, while the entrees are rather pricey (and worth every penny), everything else was reasonably priced. But the entrees... If there is duck on the menu, 95% of the time, I'm ordering it. This was done of the best prepared duck I've ever had. If they are still serving the bread pudding souffle, just go ahead and order it. Trust me & you're welcome.

Delicious food. Excellent people. True southern hospitality.

An amazing meal with a nice view and impeccable service. Clint and Josh were fantastic. Cannot recommend highly enough.

We had dinner here . Food and service were excellent. We enjoyed it and recommend it to anyone visiting New Orleans.

If you are in New Orleans, please don t leave without having lunch or dinner at Commander s. The service is impeccable, the food is delicious as one would expect from the Brennan restaurant dynasty. We try to get in every time we are in town, and we ve never been disappointed.

Great food and service. The restaurant itself had a great vibe. I will be coming back again. Thank you.

Culinary perfection! The turtle soup was a religious experience, the gumbo... no other words, and the pecan crusted gulf fish was beyond delightful. The bread pudding and strawberry shortcake were DIVINE!! Service was impeccable and we even had a visit from one of the owners. I'm so glad we chose them to celebrate my birthday. No one else could have made it a better night!

Best brunch i have ever been too! Absolutely delicious from start to finish! Favorites were the gumbo, eggs benedict, french toast, and strawberry shortcake...

The turtle soup tasted like dirty diesel swamp water

Outstanding! Awesome service great food and desert! A must do in New Orleans.

Came here for a birthday dinner and they treated us well! The food was delicious. I loved everything we had. The cocktails weren t the best but they made it right. Service was excellent and Ellen was very kind in particular. This place is a must visit for special events!

It doesn't get much better than this. Be sure to have a few 25 cent martinis at lunch.

I had a nice experience at Commander s Palace. I felt that the staff, from the host to the wait staff, was pleasant and professional. The dining room was nice and well kept. The food was great and I think fairly priced. The turtle soup was especially delicious. My only complaint is about the temperature of my meal. It was a little on the cold side, but at the same time I understand you cannot completely savor food when it is hot like I enjoy it. **They do take the dress code seriously, as my date and I saw a couple get denied before we went in.

Overall a fantastic experience!

Cannot say enough good things. Amazing food, service, ambience.

Went to celebrate a birthday. We're basically ignored after ordering and getting food. Noone asked if we wanted another driver k, how our food was etc. Terrible experience.

Life time experience.. I got no words to describe the food but my stomach did.!

Everything we ate was absolutely delicious. We ran into a service issue initially but the manager made it right immediately. Will be going back on next visit to NOLA.

The food and ambiance here was amazing! I had the beachcomber drink and it came with an adorable pair of sunglasses. The gumbo of the day was seafood and it was so good! I can't remember the name for the shrimp dish, but it was super flavourful and really good. My coworker had the duck and said it was amazing as well. Highly recommend a trip here!

Looks nice, the staff was friendly. A bit disappointed there is a dress code we didn't know about and were unable to actually sit down and eat here.

Delicious with history. Turtle Soup is famous for a reason. Great atmosphere. Even when full you can have a conversation with the table. Patio is beautiful with appropriate weather.

Honastly it was only ok. I was expecting much better for a place so highly reviewed. Like nothing was bad, but there really wasn't much depth to any of the flavors. It seems like everything was under seasoned which is crazy considering this is the heart of flavor.

Went here for my birthday dinner with the wifey on a Tuesday. As soon as I stepped foot into Commanders Palace I immediately knew I was in for a treat.


with sweet potato Lyonnaise, bourbon fig habanero barbecue and
a roasted baby beet shaved green apple salad - $39.00), New Orleans Barbecued Gulf Shrimp (Seared Gulf shrimp crusted with rosemary, garlic and lemon zest over whipped brie grits with charred chilies & New Orleans barbecue butter - $39.00), Creole Bread Pudding Souffle (with whiskey cream sauce - $3), and Bourbon Peach Cobbler ($3). From start to finish everything was outstanding. If we had to knit pick the gumbo felt like it was over salted (but still edible). My favorites were the lamb and the bread pudding souffle. That whiskey cream sauce was heavenly.

Absolutely amazing food that never fails to make my pallet dance ! And Their $0.25 cocktails over lunch is awesome!!!