Antoine’s Restaurant • 1840

When a snail shortage struck in 1889, Jules Alciatore created Oysters Rockefeller — a dish so rich he named it after the wealthiest man in America — and the secret recipe has never left the Alciatore family's hands across five generations. The oldest continuously family-run restaurant in America sprawls across fifteen dining rooms in the French Quarter, where a 25,000-bottle wine cellar and walls lined with Mardi Gras memorabilia hold 185 years of New Orleans history. The original Oysters Rockefeller still arrives on the same silver platters, six to an order, exactly as it did in the 19th century.