New Orleans' Hungry Eyes named one of Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants for 2024

Bon Appetit Magazine has just released their list of the 20 best new restaurants of 2024, and New Orleans' own Hungry Eyes has made the list. The 80's themed restaurant that opened on Magazine Street last year features a large wine menu, good food with cool vibes and some seriously retro decor.

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The restaurant made the announcement on their Instagram page expressing their gratitude to the magazine and their staff.

Sam Stone of Bon Appetir writes, "Subtlety is not the goal at Hungry Eyes. The New Orleans restaurant shares a name with the iconic 1987 soft rock hit—yes, the one from Dirty Dancing—and is a full-on tribute to the ’80s. The restaurant is outfitted with striking Pop art, pink neon lights, and precisely four enameled leopard figurines behind the bar. The food is just as colorful, refracting globally inspired flavors through the lens of Southern cuisine. Seared okra and shishito peppers are glazed in a fragrant mixture of lemongrass and fish sauce. Steak tartare is dressed in a sharp, fatty “burger grease vinaigrette.” Halibut crudo thrums with salty richness thanks to a sauce of cinnamon and malty beer. Restaurants oozing personality aren’t unusual for co-owner Mason Hereford, whose audacious takes on the sandwiches of his youth at Turkey and the Wolf earned him the title of Bon Appétit’s Best New Restaurant in 2017. Though the environs at Hungry Eyes may be firmly retro, the dishes you’ll enjoy throughout a synth-soundtracked night are anything but old-school."

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To view their entire list, you can visit The 20 Best New Restaurants of 2024 | Bon Appétit (bonappetit.com)

To make reservations to check out Hungry Eyes for yourself, visit (hungryeyesnola.com)

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