Jane & Michael Stern

"Parkway's excellent bread pudding with rum sauce."

Jane & Michael Stern

"The hot, crisp-edged sweet potato fries were a big hit with my group."

Jane & Michael Stern

"The best of the best is made at Parkway Bakery & Tavern, a wood-frame building overlooking Bayou St. John. It comes tightly wrapped in a tube of butcher paper that already is mottled through with gravy splotches when you pick it up at the kitchen window. Unwrap it and behold a length of fresh, brawny bread loaded with beef so falling-apart tender that it seems not to have been sliced but rather hand-pulled, like fine barbecued pork, into myriad slivers, nuggets and dainty clumps."

David Rosengarten

""Holy mackerel”, is my response to this non-seafood gumbo. Delicious, with an overwhelming turkey flavor in the “aged” one, particularly. Medium-dark brown (“it’s my turkey that gives it the color”). Medium-thick. Great seasoning and spices. Sticky-lip gumbo, from all that divine collagen."

Larry Olmsted

"Even the gumbo, another passion-inspiring and hotly contested local dish, was excellent here, one of my favorites of many I have had in the city. It is thick with sausage and turkey, but not thickened with too much rice or big chunks of okra, just perfectly balanced with the generously right amount of everything."

Larry Olmsted

"French fries (or sweet potato fries) are the side of choice here, but you can get either regular or covered in “debris,” gravy with bits of roast beef in it, and this too is exceptional, far superior to often gluey poutine or most takes on fries and gravy. The fresh-out-of-the-oil fries are crisp and stand up to the powerfully rich brown sauce."

Scott Gold

"The Best French Fries In New Orleans: Parkway has some of the best in town. Pro move: order your sweet potato fries on a po-boy, drowning in gravy. And “dressed”, naturally."

Lonely Planet

"The homemade bread pudding with rum sauce is also divine – and secretly our top choice at Parkway."

Lonely Planet

"Who makes the best po’boy in New Orleans? Honestly, who can say? But tell a local you think the top sandwich comes from Parkway and you will get, at the least, a nod of respect. The roast beef in particular – a craft some would say is dying among the great po’boy makers – is messy as hell and twice as good."

Fodor's Travel

"For dessert, choose from a selection of rum cake, bread pudding, and banana pudding—all made fresh daily."