Where the Locals Eat Rating
Top 100 Restaurant, New Orleans
"GW Fins ensures the highest quality seafood by flying in products from around the globe and featuring only the best from local waters -- both at their seasonal peak. This commitment to freshness, variety and to our guests, are some of the many reasons GW Fins prints its menu daily. . . . [featuring] dishes such as lobster dumplings, wood grilled sea scallops with a wild mushroom risotto, cashew peppercorn swordfish and individually prepared apple pie . . . The award-winning wine list boasts more than 100 wines, 70 of which are available by the glass."
–GW Fins website
"[Chef Tenney Flynn] likes to be creative . . . [and his] skills are often best reflected in the side dishes, many of which make his creations cohere."
–Brett Anderson, The Times-Picayune
"GW Fins gives Louisiana seafood a fun, frisky touch in airy, modern surroundings."
–Gambit Weekly
". . . . casual and chic . . . one of the two or three best places in New Orleans to eat seafood."
–Tom Fitzmorris, New Orleans City Business
"Some of [Chef Flynn's] offerings wouldn't be all that out of place at Le Bernardin in New York City."
–Food & Wine
Full bar. Serving dinner nightly.
How Others Rate GW Fins
Zagat 2009
26 Food Quality (extraordinary to perfection)
The Times-Picayune
Top 100 Restaurant, 2008
The New Orleans Menu by Tom Fitzmorris
**** (excellent and ambitious)
Wine Spectator
Award of Excellence