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Houmas House Restaurants
Dining is a big part of the Houmas House experience. Whether you’re making a day trip from New Orleans, touring the mansion and gardens or spending the night at the Inn, there’s a restaurant here for just about every occasion.
The culinary program is overseen by Executive Chef Jeremy Langlois, and the menus lean into the Louisiana ingredients and flavors we know and love. Houmas House says its menus change seasonally to take advantage of locally grown produce.
Dixie Café is a casual breakfast and lunch spot located inside the Great River Road Museum. It’s especially convenient if you’re touring the property or staying at the Inn, and the big windows offer panoramic views of the gardens and amphitheatre. Service is casual, with both buffet and à la carte options.
The breakfast buffet includes scrambled and omelet-style eggs, yellow corn grits, bacon, pork sausage, breakfast potatoes, biscuits, yogurt, cereal and fresh fruit, along with coffee, orange juice and other non-alcoholic beverages.
Lunch is where Dixie Café really feels like a Louisiana road-trip stop. The current River Road Buffet includes chicken and andouille gumbo, fried catfish, roasted chicken, crawfish Alfredo pasta, red beans and rice, corn maque choux and white chocolate bread pudding. There’s also an à la carte menu with Bourbon shrimp, crawfish pies, a Crown Jewel hamburger, BBQ beef short rib sliders and other casual favorites.
Our advice: if you’re heading up from New Orleans for a daytime visit, have breakfast here before exploring the estate or plan on the lunch buffet after your tour. It’s easy, casual and very South Louisiana.
The Carriage House Restaurant is Houmas House’s middle ground between casual café dining and the special-occasion experience at Latil’s Landing. It’s open for lunch and dinner and reservations are recommended but not required. The restaurant is also attached to the Turtle Bar, which makes it particularly easy to turn dinner into an evening out.
The current menu mixes Louisiana classics with more contemporary dishes. Start with Louisiana crawfish bread, a crab and mango cake or the signature bisque of curried pumpkin, Louisiana crawfish and corn. There’s also a traditional chicken and andouille gumbo and a Houmas House salad dressed with Steen’s Cane Syrup vinaigrette.
For entrées, you can keep things casual with a Gulf shrimp or oyster po-boy or the Crown Jewel hamburger or settle in for something more substantial. The current menu includes an Eggplant Napoleon layered with jumbo-lump crabmeat, Crawfish Orleans with fresh fettuccine, pan-seared redfish topped with jumbo-lump crab and sauce meunière, a boudin-stuffed double-cut pork chop, slow-braised beef short ribs with stone-ground grits, and steak selections.
It’s a particularly good choice when you want dinner somewhere that feels special without committing to a full tasting-menu experience.
For a special night at Houmas House, Latil’s Landing is the destination. The fine-dining restaurant is located in the oldest portion of Houmas House itself which dates to 1774. Dinner here is intimate, leisurely and very much intended to be an experience rather than a quick meal.
Latil’s Landing currently offers a five-course tasting menu created by Chef Jeremy Langlois and Chef Ty Lassere. The current menu features chilled green tomato soup with slab bacon and pickled carrots; warm lobster with tarragon-vanilla butter sauce; pan-seared red snapper with butter bean ragout; lamb tenderloin with chimichurri and sweet potato croquet; and Strawberry Jubilee made with Louisiana strawberries. Menus are seasonal, so the dishes are likely to change throughout the year.
The Turtle Bar
Before dinner, stop by The Turtle Bar for a proper Louisiana cocktail. Located in one of the property’s garçonnières, the bar is an intimate spot to meet friends or settle in before your reservation. Houmas House specifically recommends it for Southern cocktails, and its current Carriage House drink menu includes classics such as the Mint Julep, Sazerac, French 75, Hurricane and Old-Fashioned.
If you’re having dinner at The Carriage House, there’s really no excuse not to stop in — the restaurant is attached to the bar.
The Wine “Cellars” of Houmas House
One of the more unusual surprises at Houmas House is its wine collection. Historic water cisterns behind the mansion were converted into striking wine cellars, complete with cast-iron balconies, circular staircases and bottle storage built into the masonry walls.
The cellars hold more than 1,000 cases and 500 varietals, with separate spaces for white and red wines. The collection ranges from Champagne and Old World wines to bottles from California, Oregon, Washington and beyond. The cellars aren’t part of the regular mansion tour, but guests can ask to see them.