The 7 Best Places for Sugar Cookies in New Orleans

Gambit New Orleans: Try the smoky ham, topped with pecan cheddar spread, pepper jelly and apple slices on baguette. Gambit's Five Outstanding ham sandwiches Read more.

Gambit New Orleans: Gracious Bakery offers sandwiches with freshly baked bread and quality fillings. Read more.

Corinne Finnan: Corinne works on Fridays and Saturday's and she's the bomb!

Burt: The very best dark chocolate truffles! Fantastic cupcakes too

Gambit New Orleans: Find small-batch chocolates and truffles in imaginative flavors at this sweet spot for chocolate! Read more.

James Braendel: Buy two drinks to avoid the $5 minimum. Save the second one for another visit by getting Caroline to write an IOU.

James Braendel: Get the Salmon Nicoise!

David Winkler-Schmit: Great bagels & pastries with lots of seating.

Celine M: Brooklyn and memphis bagels

Mary Silva: Try the half a sandwich + cup of soup deal!

Nola Smurfette: Great soup

Bon Bon: Great place to meet friends for dinner

Stephen Sanders: Awesome $20 three course lunch at this historic restaurant. There's nothing else like it in America. It's food and hospitality are remnants of a more elegant era.

Travel Channel: Tony Bourdain sampled the Oysters Rockefeller, a dish invented at Antoine's, which is the oldest operating restaurant in the United States. Read more.

Brian Schaffer: Avoid going here. While the food may be good, the service is awful; not even close to what it used to be. Just go to Commander's Palace instead.

Aaron Miller: By far my favorite Starbucks in metro NOLA. Sit on the patio-it's the best on a warm NOLA day.

Amy Smith: Lines are often long in the morning. Fun fact: this was the first Starbucks in Louisiana, and the building is a former art gallery.

Brittany Brady: The new renovations look great. Definitely the busiest Starbucks in the city, but understandable because it's the best.