Where the Locals Eat Rating
Best Coffeehouse
Top 100 Restaurant, New Orleans
"The original Cafe Du Monde Coffee Stand was established in 1862 in the New Orleans French Market. The Cafe is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It closes only on Christmas Day and on the day an occasional hurricane passes too close to New Orleans."
–Café du Monde website
"Cafe Du Monde serves what in a perfect world we'd eat for breakfast every day: beignets and rich, flavorful cafe au lait."
–The Times-Picayune
"If you're going to do one thing and do it well, this is the model to follow."
–Gambit Weekly
"The historic coffeehouse, which has plenty of outdoor seating overlooking Jackson Square, has been a gathering spot for locals and visitors for generations. The coffee is superb, fortified with chicory and laced with steaming milk."
–Offbeat magazine
"Café du Monde is the New Orleans coffee shop . . . [and] the characters you'll meet here - any time of day, but especially at odd hours in the middle of the night - are among the Crescent City's most colorful."
–Michael Stern, Roadfood.com
Cash only. No alcohol available. Open 24 hours daily. Closes Christmas Eve at 6. Reopens 6 am Dec. 26.
How Others Rate Café du Monde
Zagat 2009
24 Food Quality (very good to excellent)
The New Orleans Menu by Tom Fitzmorris
*** (good enough to go out of your way to try)