Antoine's Restaurant

Antoine's Restaurant has been around since 1840 which means it is a 180 year old restaurant. It is the oldest continuous family restaurant in the entire United States with famous dishes like Oysters Rochefellar and Eggs Sardou. In the spring of 1840, young Antoine Alciatore, at age 18, fell in love with New Orleans and established his restaurant and it continues to this day. Antoine felt at home in the French-speaking city filled with aristocrats and extravagance which made it the perfect place for his culinary artistry. His fiancee joined him from New York and married in New Orleans and built the restaurant together. After Antoine's death, his son, Jules, served as an apprentice under his mother. After studying in the great kitchens in Paris, Strassburg and Marseilles, he returned to New Orleans and later became the head of the house of Antoine. Jules invented the famous Oysters Rockefeller. To this day, they remain a culinary delight, but the recipe is a closely-guarded family secret. The restaurant continued to be passed down along with the culinary secrets and expertise for generations and through the Civil War, two World Wars, The Great Depression and even Hurricane Katrina. It will also survive the COVID-19 Pandemic. I've been in food and wine for over 30 years.