Tom Fitzmorris

"This nice little tart is the restaurant’s most talked-about ending course. Simple, but perfect: a lovely little pie with a rich custard and the ideal lemon component to balance off the sugar."

Diana K. Schwam

"It’s got a menu full of new Creole classics, superbly done: a colossal smoked duck leg that stands on its own with the simplest of sides."

Ian McNulty

"New Orleans Dining Guide | The Essential 100: Clancy's Restaurant - The paneed veal, the lemon icebox pie — all are as essential to Clancy’s as the big white room with mirrors and bentwood chairs."

Emily Smith

"Tucked in a neighborhood on Annunciation Street is where you’ll find Clancy’s Restaurant, home to the best lemon icebox pie in the city. And because it’s baked first and then frozen, the consistency is on point — and the cold lemon custard is out of this world."

Gayot

"Fine dessert pies include a towering wedge of peppermint ice cream and a lemon icebox pie that many home cooks would be proud to call their own."

Nora McGunnigle

"13 Must-Eat-Now Pies in New Orleans: Clancy's Restaurant - The white-tablecloth neighborhood restaurant is famous for its frozen lemon icebox pie with graham cracker crust, a variation of the traditional key lime pie."

Sarah Ricks

"Smoked duck was perfect."

Sarah Ricks

"Lemon icebox tart, a classic frozen Southern dessert, was new to me – and delicious."

Find. Eat. Drink.

"While we’ll happily listen to the waiter’s dessert specials, our mind is always made up the second we talk through the door: Lemon Icebox Pie. It’s one of the few desserts we actually fight over."

Becky Fromer

"Clancy’s. Perhaps my favorite restaurant. Shared meal of Risotto with Lobster and Mushrooms. Did not share my own order of lemon icebox cake."