Mandina's Restaurant Reviews

Perhaps my favorite New Orleans restaurant, one with a glorious history and a bright future, even though the menu barely changes. Neighborhood Italian and seafood, prepared flawlessly. Best turtle soup and shrimp remoulade in the city. Engaging wait staff. Great place to people watch. What more can you ask?

Roast beef po boy had very little meat but lots of other stuff! Dont recommend this place!!

I never noticed that RESTAURANT before. Curtious and respectful er mployees.very clean. DELICIOUS food. I will be back!!!

Best mom and pop restaurant in the city-wide variety to chose that tastes perfect.

A local MUST for anyone visiting from out of town. We were lucky to have a superb airbnb host who told us about this place. We went the day of Mardi Gras and waited quite a bit but it was definitely worth it! Their eggplant parm was incredible - portions are HUGE!

This was one of the best restaurants we went to while in New Orleans. The staff is very friendly and nice, and they had some of the best fried chicken I've ever had.

I want to thank Nathan for making my birthday at Mankind's so special! It was our first visit....the food was amazing and the service as well! Thank you!

Great food at good prices. One of our favs in NOLA. Love their gumbo, turtle soup, poboys, and red beans w Italian sausage. Highly recommended.

Love it so much!!!! I'm extremely excited that my best friend/ maid of honor decided to have my bridal shower luncheon here!!!!!!! I am looking forward to it!

Very sloppy prepared seafood in my opinion, the gumbo had pieces of shell in the soup and the po-boy shrimps were over deep fried; also the cooks didn't take off the whole tail on them. Personally I'm not going back.

Delicious food, lovely atmosphere, and wonderful service at a very decent price

Food excellent, service good, they have well lit parking. Which includes plenty of parking.

What can I say - Mandina's is my FAVORITE restaurant of all time, and I live in Colorado. Best seafood gumbo! Staff is always friendly and knows me and my family well. Every time I am in town we make at least two visits to Mandina's. There is not one item on the menu that I wouldn't recommend.

Food was good, but not memorable. We had shrimp etouffe and eggplant parmigiano. Had bread pudding for dessert which was fine.

Great seafood
From roasted oysters to fresh shrimp this restaurant has all of your fish and seafood needs covered. The wait staff was extremely helpful and we ended up with a memorable meal.

Awesome food. The gumbo is amazing . Portions are huge! So don t fill up on apps.

Great food. Highly recommend the turtle soup. Soft shell crab was really good. It is pricey, but about the same as comparable restaurants. Take your sweetie there and they will be impressed with your culinary geography.

Great local stop. Been in the same location for years. Good selection and great food. Daily specials. Huge portions. One of the best turtle soups in town. Place stays busy during peak times...be prepared to wait a little.

Great Italian / Steak /Seafood / Daily hot plate specials and fantastic service then throw in some mixed drinks... you'll have a great experience. Ambiance is classic New Orleans.

Best turtle soup in New Orleans, place is a gem will be back. Keep up the great cooking

This place never disappoints...Always delicious...Always fresh...& the services is the very best. I always leave smiling & satisfied.

Delicious meal! The catfish almadine was so good, fried crisp and covered in a sliced almond/butter sauce. My kids loved the appetizer sampler. Friendly wait staff.

The best food people & portions ever ! Always consistent. Been going there since 1959. & Will continue to bring family & friend s it will always be our tradition. ! ! !

I regret not getting the eggplant parm.
The drum meniere was quite tasty, though.
Will be visiting again soon.

Authentic New Orleans neighborhood restaurant. Excellent!

I did not like the turtle soup! My wife's pork chops were very dry. No need to return.

Great mid-city New Orleans restaurant! You can't go wrong with a bowl of gumbo and an oyster loaf ... and so many other local favorites.

I ordered the Salisbury steak well done. It was red and taste just like the hamburger steak!!

Delicious! We (party of 3) went on a Thursday night and we were seated immediately. We got onion rings, eggplant parmesan, fried shrimp and oysters, bruccialone (rolled veal with spinach and egg). We so enjoyed our meals! Our entrees were all less than $20 and were huge portions! Would definitely recommend Mandina s!

Neighborhood Italian food with a New Orleans flair!

OK. Large portions. Nothing outstanding. Stuffed bell pepper nice & big. Macaroni and cheese was bland, no salt.

Food was amazing!!! My husband and I ate here for our anniversary tonight. He got a steak and said it was great, I had the shrimp eftoufee that was phenomenal! Great experience and our server was awesome! Also they have parking which is unusual here in Nola, hubby says that s a plus lol!

I am not going to go out of my way for this place. Perhaps I just came at the wrong time of the day, before things started to get busy. I think the A-crew was in the back eating lunch before it got busy. The fried shrimp po-boy was not bad, but certainly not good enough for the price I paid. If you are close and hungry, this place is OK.

Great experience! Johnathan Eisterhold is very kind and attractive! I love the restaurant and tasty turtle soup! I also love the crab fingers very nice and juice, full of flavor!

Absolutely delicious! The servings are HUGE. Will definitely be back on our next visit to New Orleans!

Straight up old school Italian place. Large portions, great fried oysters.

The food was amazing. Our party had hamburger steak-grilled-onions-brown gravy with grilled potatoes and snap beans. It tasted soooooo good and the portion sizes for the price are very very satisfactory...one plate would feed a family adequately. Wow.

This place is a great place to dine. The food was fresh and delicious. Our server was probably as good as the food. The next you dine...ask for Chris.

One of the best eating establishments in New Orleans...local flavor and wonderful food!

They have an extreme break dancing competition every Monday night - winner gets to eat his or her weight in red beans and rice, or how ever much they can eat in 10 minutes. Just run into the kitchen and start eating, they'll act like you shouldn't be there but that's part of the gag.

Wow, talk about some great food in a foodie town. The seafood platter was so big, it could serve a table of 4. This place is so historic that they advertise "air conditioning". Service was pleasant - there when we needed him - invisible when we did not. The pecan cheesecake was stupid good. It is not a question of when if I will return, but when.

Let me preface by saying that I am from Chicago so I know what good food is, and Mandina's has it.

Atmosphere:
My girlfriend and I showed up around 5:30 and we were seated within 10 min. As we got through our meal the place really started to get busy and there was a line to the door at about 6:30 when we were leaving. It got pretty loud as most of the main dining area is pretty open, but it was not intolerable.

Service:
Terry was a magician. He was a very good server and it was evident he had experience. He was able give me a recommendation for my dinner and he always kept our waters full. He was serving a large party as well as other small tables at the same time yet he never forgot to check on us.

Food:
This was the best part of the entire experience! My girlfriend and I were visiting New Orleans for the first time, and wanted to try some authentic creole dishes, Mandina's was perfect. I got grilled fish lafitte (saturday special) and it was delicious. My girlfriend got the grilled shrimp with pasta and it was also very good. For an appetizer, I would recommend the crab claws in wine sauce. All of these dishes were hefty portions, enough to bring home leftovers. Overall, I would recommend Mandina's to anyone looking for authentic Louisiana food, we would definitely go back.

We went with a large group (16 people). Our waiter was friendly and efficient. All the food came out hot.

Awesome! Not touristy.
Just great food and great service.

Excellent seafood gumbo and turtle soup. We split the seafood platter, which was good, because they brought a literal MOUNTAIN of food. We took home so much, we had another full dinner the next night. You know this is a great place when parking is terrible and every seat is still taken.

Perennial neighborhood favorite. Excellent turtle soup, shrimp remoulade and oyster poboy.

Always a Shrimp&Oyster PoBoy and the best Turtle Soup w/sherry. Sometimes a Soft Shell Crab PoBoy. Umm good.

Incredible as always. The potato salad is probably the best I've ever had. Seriously.

Mandina's is a great place with even better food! The crabfingers are a must get and so is the turtle soup with sherry. You will not be disappointed by the huge portions! If you're hungry when you leave Mandina's you did it wrong. We had the fried soft-shell crab in a delicious brown butter sauce and the grilled shrimp pasta that was packed with flavor. Our waiter was awesome and very helpful with the menu. We always love making Mandina's a part of our trip to the Big Easy.

Very large serving sizes which is awesome when you bring a group of people. The bread pudding was delicious

Tim is a wonderful waiter made a great selection and it was a good dinner and highly recommend this place

Great food and you want leave hungry. Truly a taste of New Orleans

The food is Pure New Orleans. Incredibly delicious. The wait staff is so kind and the service impecible

Food was so bland and mediocre. We came here because we had seen all the good reviews. We were very disappointed. Food has no flavor and the quality of the ingredients seemed to be very low. The server did a nice job, but we were very disappointed. Do not waste your money

Food was delicious, service not so much, but, would deinitely come back for the food!

I got the Italian comfort food that I've missed, since I moved here from Brooklyn.

SO MUCH FOOD!!!!!! Great service, great atmosphere!

We went to Mandina's expecting great things after all we had heard but unfortunately it didn't live up to the hype. The chicken parm & the calamari were excellent, so tender & well seasoned. The spaghetti & meatballs were just ok, nothing to write home about. The turtle soup was a major disappointment, bland & unenjoyable, you can get much better at Liuzzas by the Track or Commanders Palace.
Probably not somewhere we will try again.

Great New Orleans neighborhood restaurant. Reasonable priced First class New Orleans food

Great food except for Rudy the waiter. He gave bad service but the meal was great.

Will try Mandinas Meuniere sauce on some gulf fish. I may have had some bottled meuniere sauce at whole foods but It will be interesting getting some local cook and seasoned food.. Anyway I ordered some crawfish cakes as Lagniappe. Havent been here in 20 years. I do remember the food here was pretty good at last eating

This definitely is the spot to go for a great gumbo meal. Everything was delish and the service was wonderful. Will definitely come back and visit when I return.

Very touristy and overcrowded but one of must things to do in nola.