Where the Locals Eat Rating
Top 100 Restaurant, New Orleans
"Simple, yet exquisite, cuisine . . . has consistently made Herbsaint one of the top five restaurants in New Orleans."
–Herbsaint website
"While a toddler in New Orleans restaurant years, Herbsaint has become the city's quintessential New Orleans bistro."
–Brett Anderson, The Times-Picayune
"Donald Link cooks modern Creole cuisine infused with European influences."
–Gambit Weekly
"The room, with its cool green walls and understated bistro furniture, provides the perfect backdrop for [chef] Link's gutsy, flavorful dishes."
–Food & Wine
"The gifted and enthusiastic chef Donald Link has roots in Acadia Parish. His menu, then, is a sort of modern Creole: the game and sausages of Cajun cuisine crossed with classical French and Italian."
–Julia Reed, The New York Times
"A native of southern Louisiana, Link always offers a rich daily gumbo (varying by season) as well as brasserie favorites like perfectly seared hanger steak with frites. But he really shines when he mixes the two idioms in dishes like duck leg confit with dirty rice or chile-glazed pork belly."
–Condé Nast Traveler
"The desserts are standouts . . . chocolate beignets, with their molten boozy interior, [are] something we could eat every day."
–Frommer's
Full bar. Serving lunch Mon–Fri, dinner Mon–Sat. Closed Sun.
How Others Rate Herbsaint
Zagat 2009
26 Food Quality (extraordinary to perfection)
The Times-Picayune
Top 10 Restaurant, 2008
James Beard Foundation
Donald Link, Best Chef: South, 2007
The New Orleans Menu by Tom Fitzmorris
**** (excellent and ambitious)
Frommer's
** (very highly recommended)
Gourmet magazine
No. 49 of America's Top 50 Restaurants, 2006