Stephanie Parker

"We got bread pudding for dessert. We ate this like we were piranhas. I wanted to lick the plate. SO good!"

Sara Roahen

"A person will plead when you suggest the very rich bananas Foster bread pudding seething with nutmeg."

Beth D'Addono

"Service is exceptional, as is the bread pudding du jour."

Steven Wells Hicks

"You’ll find a superb San Francisco style cioppino (the American cousin to the legendary bouillabaisse of Marseilles). All the food produced by Irene’s kitchen seems to adhere to the principal of simplicity."

Brett Anderson

"I was there for the cioppino, a seafood stew I crave whenever the temperature dips below tolerable, partly to warm my hands in the steam rising off of it."

NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

"Seafood has always been a strength. Highlights include the paneed oysters with grilled shrimp, and the seafood cioppino is one of the best fish soups in town — but the menu doesn't have many weaknesses."

Ian McNulty

"It’s the teeming cioppino and the chicken rosemarino, a “platonic dish” (to borrow a phrase from Richard Collin), and source of much of the restaurant’s signature aroma."

Michael Beychok

"The Italian dishes are good; the fish is good; the bread pudding is excellent."

Stage and Screen

"It is hard to narrow down the must visits but here are the top ten courtesy of Zagat that won’t disappoint: Irene's Cuisine - What to order: Bananas Foster bread pudding."

Amy Gramlich

"Bananas Foster Bread Pudding. Oh, my word!"