Brigtsen’s New Orleans

Awards

OAD

North American Casual Restaurants 2026, 807

All OAD North American Casual in New Orleans All OAD North American Casual in United States

Restaurant Ranking

Restaurant Ranking 2024, #6726, PRO #13.64, USER #0.00

All Restaurant Ranking in New Orleans All Restaurant Ranking in United States

Cuisine

Regional cuisine Cuisine, American Regional - Creole

Chef

Frank Brigtsen

• 2026
• 2025

Dinner at Brigtsen's

on 07 Aug 2026

by Ian McNulty

“Brown is the color of flavor,” says @frankbrigtsen , so let us count the ways from my last dinner at Brigtsen’s Restaurant.

“Color of Flavor” is the chef’s new cookbook, brought into the world with his passion and backing by @bluerunnerfoods .

Saturday (Aug. 8), @nocca.nola hosts a launch party from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. (600 Homer Plessy Way) where chef will be signing books.

Never been to Brigtsen’s? Start with:

🦐the gumbo and BBQ shrimp with calas... More

“Brown is the color of flavor,” says @frankbrigtsen , so let us count the ways from my last dinner at Brigtsen’s Restaurant.

“Color of Flavor” is the chef’s new cookbook, brought into the world with his passion and backing by @bluerunnerfoods .

Saturday (Aug. 8), @nocca.nola hosts a launch party from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. (600 Homer Plessy Way) where chef will be signing books.

Never been to Brigtsen’s? Start with:

🦐the gumbo and BBQ shrimp with calas (Creole rice fritters)

🐟fish with pecan meunière

🦪the “Shell Beach Diet” seafood platter (not fried, not light either)

🍑and if that peach bread pudding is on special it’s a must (pecan pie otherwise or in addition).

Link in my bio has the full read on the man, the book and how it came to be.

#wherenolaeats #igersneworleans #nolaeats #neworleansfood #gumbo Less

Dinner at Brigtsen's

on 02 Aug 2026

by Ian McNulty

At long last, this master of Creole cuisine @frankbrigtsen has a cookbook, but it’s much more than that.

“Color of Flavor”is a distillation of a life in New Orleans food and the relationships woven through it.

How the book came to be is also a tribute to the chef’s life and career.

It was essentially willed into being by others, driven by the respect and admiration the chef has built in his community.

Ricky Thomas of @bluerunnerfoods knew it needed to happen,... More

At long last, this master of Creole cuisine @frankbrigtsen has a cookbook, but it’s much more than that.

“Color of Flavor”is a distillation of a life in New Orleans food and the relationships woven through it.

How the book came to be is also a tribute to the chef’s life and career.

It was essentially willed into being by others, driven by the respect and admiration the chef has built in his community.

Ricky Thomas of @bluerunnerfoods knew it needed to happen, and his company built the team to produce it.

The result is a book of equal parts rigor and affection.

Precise recipes replicate the Brigtsen way in the kitchen (first you make a roux? not for his gumbo).

But it’s as much narrative as instructional as Frank shares the tradition, history and the people behind the food and his own journey in cuisine.

“Color of Flavor” can be read as a manual for home cooks and a memoir of a life in food.

It’s also a guide for New Orleans chefs yet to come.

Get a copy at the restaurant 723 Dante St. (most evenings as dinner gets going Frank is at his “office,” the table down the hall, signing them), order through @bluerunnerfoods to ship and meet the chef as @nocca.nola hosts a launch party Saturday, Aug. 8, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. (600 Homer Plessy Way).

Link in my bio has the full read on the man, the book and how it came to be.

#wherenolaeats #igersneworleans #nolaeats #neworleansfood #nolafood Less

Dinner at Brigtsen's

on 17 Oct 2025

by Ian McNulty

Talking recently with a New Orleans couple who avidly follow the local dining scene, I was surprised to learn neither had heard of Brigtsen’s , from @frankbrigtsen and family.

How many more like them are out there, I thought.

It gave me extra motivation to finish a big project, my annual guide to New Orleans restaurants, now out for @nolanews readers via the link in my bio.

I want to do my bit to connect New Orleans people with one of the prime pleasures of living here... More

Talking recently with a New Orleans couple who avidly follow the local dining scene, I was surprised to learn neither had heard of Brigtsen’s , from @frankbrigtsen and family.

How many more like them are out there, I thought.

It gave me extra motivation to finish a big project, my annual guide to New Orleans restaurants, now out for @nolanews readers via the link in my bio.

I want to do my bit to connect New Orleans people with one of the prime pleasures of living here —this incredibly rich restaurant scene, one that’s great not just because it has lots of expensive , ambitious restaurants, but because it’s filled with restaurants that you can’t find anywhere else because they are of New Orleans.

Brigtsen’s is the epitome of this.

Here’s a few glimpses of what they do and what I wrote about it in the guide.

There are 29 more picks, arranged by category across different price ranges in the full guide. The online version is available to our readers via the link in my bio

#wherenolaeats #igersneworleans #nolaeats #nola #nolafoodie #nolafood #visitnola #visitneworleans #louisiana #visitlouisiana #nolalife #nolalove #gumbo Less