22 New Restaurants for Nola in 2017

At least they did not do a stupid slideshow:

Bayou Burger & Sports Company
3226 Magazine St., New Orleans

The burger joint and sports bar started on Bourbon Street. The second location lands in a bustling stretch of Magazine Street in the former local of Salu.
Opens: January

Billy Wright's Olde New Orleans Boil House and Coffee House
Shelter House No. 1, Lakefront, New Orleans

Out by the lake, Billy Wright will create a low-key, open-air boil house and coffee shop.
Opens: April

Bratz Y'All
617 Piety St., New Orleans

After winning top honors at Oak Street Po-Boy Fest more than once, German-born chef Sven Vorkauf has set his sights on a full restaurant. Bratz Y'All, located behind Pizza Delicious, will also have a pretzel bakery.
Opens: Early 2017

Bywater Bakery
3624 Dauphine St., New Orleans

Veteran pastry chef Chaya Conrad strikes out on her own with a neighborhood bakery and cafe that will serve breakfast and lunch.
Opens: Early January

DTB Social House
8201 Oak St., New Orleans

The name stands for "down the bayou." The owners are two veterans of Commander's Palace with Cajun roots who plan to cook a contemporary version of their ancestral cuisine. The chefs, Jean-Pierre Guidry and Carl Schaubhut, also run Bacobar in Covington.
Opens: March 2017

Echo's
3200 Banks St., New Orleans

Kate Heller, working under the name Leo's Bread, is one of New Orleans' best baker. But her loaves can be hard to find. Now, she'll be using her baking skills to make wood-fired pizzas. And her friends at 1000 Figs, which uses Leo's Bread, will be overseeing the rest of the menu.
Opens: Mid year

Effervescence
1036 N. Rampart St., New Orleans

The bar will be about bubbles. And the kitchen, led by Evan Ingram and Brenna Sander of the pop-up L'Americaine, will be devotes to classic nibbles. The chefs, who both worked at Restaurant August, will create a menu that includes gougeres, blini with caviar and frites with aioli.
Opens: Late January

Former Barreca's location
3100 Metairie Road, Metairie

The rapidly growing company Creole Cuisine Restaurant Concepts bought what for many years was Barreca's. They will create a casual seafood and Italian restaurant.
Opens: Summer

Former Warehouse Grill location
869 Magazine St., New Orleans

This Warehouse District location has housed a string of restaurant and bars. Now owned by Creole Cuisine Restaurant Concepts (see above), it will become an outdoor patio with all-American food.
Opens: Spring

French Truck
221 Chartres St., New Orleans

The latest French Truck location will feature the local roaster's coffee along with a grab-and-go sandwiches.
Opens: First quarter 2017

Koreole Cafe and Grocery
2809 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans

Kayti Chung-Williams, an original vendor at the St. Roch Market, combines Korean food with the flavors of her adopted hometown. Koreole will also be a market stocking produce and neighborhood products.
Opens: February

Lula
1532 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans

Like a brewpub, but with booze. The bar will be stocked with gin, rum and vodka distilled on site. The restaurant's menu includes boudin egg rolls, fried mirliton pickles, rum-lacquered Gulf shrimp and boiled seafood in three different seasonings.
Opens: January

MCP Uptown
6307 S. Miro St., New Orleans

Mid-City Pizza, which makes enormous, New York-style pies, expands to the old Naked Pizza location near Tulane and Loyola universities.
Opens: January

Palm & Pine
French Quarter

Amarys and Jordan Herndon, the chefs behind the long-running Old Portage pop-up, will open a full restaurants. They're keeping the other details, including the exact location, secret for now.
Opening: Early 2017

Picayune Social House
326 Camp St., New Orleans

In the 19th century, Camp Street was known as Newspaper Row. The Daily Picayune, which became part of the Times-Picayune, had its offices there. Now, the old Picayune newsroom will be a gastropub with an international menu that ranges from Southern comfort food to naan cooked in a tandoori oven. (Note: The Picayune Social House is not associated with NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.)
Opens: Before Mardi Gras

Ruben's and Ruben's Brazil Taco Truck
525 Frenchmen St., New Orleans

Ruben Leite has big plans for Frenchmen Street. Leite, who runs Ruben's Taco Truck inside Cafe Negril, will open both Ruben's, a pizza and sandwich shop, and next door Ruben's Brazil Taco Truck with fried chicken and barbecue. Later in January, he will also add a full Mexican restaurant to the second floor of Cafe Negril.
Opening: First week of January

Saffron NOLA
4128 Magazine St., New Orleans

Widely considered the top Indian restaurant in the area, Saffron NOLA currently only opens on Fridays at its Gretna location. Once they move to Uptown, the restaurant will be open all-week long.
Opens: March

Taceaux Loceaux
627 Celeste St., New Orleans

After a few delays, the brick and mortar location of the popular taco truck is back on track. The fixed location will have outdoor seating and a full bar.
Opens: Before Mardi Gras

Tavolino Pizza & Lounge
141 DeLaRonde St., New Orleans

The former and popular Vine & Dine will become a neighborhood pizza restaurant.
Opens: Early 2017

Ted Brennan's Decatur
309 Decatur St., New Orleans

The branch of the Brennan family that for decades ran Brennan's on Royal Street gets back in the restaurant business. They'll be aided by chef Lazone Randolph, the last executive chef at Brennan's before it closed and changed hands in 2013.
Opens: Early 2017

Tsunami Sushi
601 Poydras St., New Orleans

The sushi restaurant with location in Lafayette and Baton Rouge expands to New Orleans's CBD.
Opens: Before Mardi Gras

Z'kaya
Uptown

Jamielyn Arcega, previously the chef at CellarDoor, turns her attention to izakaya, traditional Japanese bar snacks. "It's something I've always gravitated towards," she said. Arcega could not yet reveal the location. Starting in January, she will test out Z'kaya's menu with pop-ups around Uptown.
Opening: Early fall

Sala is taking over the old Maple Cafe:

Sala West End

I would say this for me:

Lula
1532 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans

yeah, nothing gets me overly excited on that list.

The boilhouse on the lake (which I already knew was happening) is pretty interesting.

I'm sure my wife will be interested in Effervescence.

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I thought I read somewhere that someone was going to be moving in and doing something interesting at the old Maple Cafe building in the West End area.

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The Ricobono kids are opening up a loungey "elevated bar food" type place for adults to drink in lake view. Doesn't look particularly interesting.

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I would say this for me:

Lula
1532 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans

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Lula is open. Jess is a good guy. Need to get there

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Doesn't look particularly interesting.

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I'm sure it's not going to blow anyone's socks off, but I like the concept. We like to dine sometimes in the Bucktown/West End area and this seems like a nice addition.
I get bored with all of the new orleans style seafood places out that way and have been wanting some place to get wine and unique appetizers.

I thought Station 6 might be something that would work, but they aren't much on appetizers and the place is so small that it's a pain to get into quite often.

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Saffron Nola is going to explode

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Yep

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Lula is open.

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Are you sure about that? Their social media is saying January.

I think the coffee is for people on the Lakefront in the morning and the boil is for the afternoon and night.