User Rating: 5 out of 5 stars (19 ratings)
Clancy's
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6100 Annunciation St, New Orleans, LA
70118
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Cross Streets: Near the intersection of Annunciation St and Webster St
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| About: | This contemporary bistro located Uptown offers upscale yet comfortable dining. The decor is minimal with neutral colored walls and ceiling fans above the bentwood chairs and white linen tablecloths. The easy, sophisticated charm is a favorite with professional and business types from nearby uptown neighborhoods. Dishes are imaginative twists on New Orleans favorites. Specialties include the fresh sauteed fish in cream sauce flavored with craw fish stock and fried oysters matched with Brie. The cozy bar is known for its single-malt scotch selection. |
| Hours: | Lunch Thurs.-Fri., Dinner Mon.-Sat. |
| Categories: | All Bars, Pubs, & Clubs, Cajun Restaurants, French Restaurants, Restaurants |
| Payment: | MasterCard, Visa, Discover, American Express, Diners Club |
| Specialities: | French Creole Cooking |
| Cuisine: | Contemporary, Creole, Creole/Cajun |
| Ambiance: | Family Friendly |
| Feature: | Bar, Great Wine List, Healthy Options, Private Rooms |
| Reservations Policy: | Suggested |
| Dress Code: | Ties suggested |
| Price: | $20 - $30 |
Recent Reviews
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User Rating: 5 out of 5 starsClancy's Rocks!: I lived across the street from Clancy's for several years and ate there at least once a week. The food is just great. I can say that I NEVER had a bad meal but many great ones. That's hard to say about restaurants anywhere. Brad, you've done a great job with everything. Arthur and Bob - the best and friendliest waiters in town and the best I had in my many travels. Brian - what can I say - culinary wizard!
Since moving to Dallas a few years back, I visit Clancy's EVERY time I get back and it actually took them a few years for them to figure out that I didn't live in NOLA anymore. Just a GREAT, GREAT restaurant with great people, GREAT food, and a GREAT experience.
User Rating: 5 out of 5 starsClancy's is Dandy: We were visiting a relative who lives down the street from Clancy's. We had been telling him we were really disappointed in New Orleans restaurants and he immediately wanted us to come to Clancy's with him. Well, we were so pleased. The outside is not fancy but inside is clean and nice with good wait staff, very pleasant. The food is outstanding and definitely better than anything we had at twice the price in the French Quarter. I am a foody and I highly recommend Clancy's in New Orleans. I had the fried green tomatoes in hollandaise, egg plant and a salad. My husband had the liver in financier sauce with creamed potatoes and asparagus: it was so good.
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User Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
The best soft shell crab I have ever had.: Clancy's is a true New Orleans neighborhood restaurant. Everyone seems to know each other, and the clientele is dominated by devoted regulars.
I had the finest soft shell crab in my life there, and since I am a native New Orleanian that is really saying something. (And yes, I lived in the Maryland area for 10 years also -- Chesapeake bay crabs are definitely not better than this) The other dishes I tried were uniformly excellent. I especially enjoyed a barbacued shrimp appetizer my wife ordered.
Another Clancy's special is its oyster with brie. Also an appetizer, this combo consists of a fried oyster on a bed of spinach topped with melted brie. It is a variation on the Oyster Rockefeller, and tastes just as good, although the oysters are fried instead of broiled. This may be a better way for those folks who are leery of raw oysters to try out the bivalve.
Two downsides to Clancy's. First, the dessert menu, which is fair but nothing to get excited about. I had a chocolate brownie a la mode, and my companions had slices of lime pie and a coconut pie, all of which were fair but no better than that. And there is no capuccino and no espresso. Just plain coffee, and not even any chicory. The strength of Clancy's is its entrees, to be sure.
The second downside is that the place is awfully noisy for a fine dining experience. Part of the problem is the dining room, with hardwood floors and plaster walls and ceilings that do little to absorb the sound. The other reason for the noise is the fact that the clientele are all such regulars that they hoot and holler over dinner as if they were at their own home. This is certainly not all bad -- it lends a certain style to the place. Still, many fine diners (myself included) are not used to that level of noise in a restaurant that is not a mall food court. Just be ready for it if you go.
Still, despite the few weaknesses, Clancy's is a special place. It is, as I have noted before, truly a neighborhood restaurant, and if you go you will see patrons sitting at different tables talking to each other like old friends. That is because they are. The wait staffers know its regulars so well that their demeanor is a litlle more casual than at the typical five star restaurant. You will see people coming to Clancy's on foot from their homes a few blocks away. I don't know a better test of a restaurant's (or a person's) quality than this: the people who know it best and longest love it the most.
Go to Clancy's for the food, but also, especially if you are from out of town, for the experience. You will see a typical old New Orleans neighborhood in full flower, and people you would never meet in the French Quarter. Even in New Orleans a true neighorhood restaurant isn't more than one in a hundred. Across all of America, I doubt it is one in ten thousand.
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