Doris Metropolitan

The story

Crafted with passion, served with love

On Chartres Street in the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter, Doris Metropolitan brings a Mediterranean steakhouse sensibility to one of America's most food-obsessed cities. The combination is less unlikely than it sounds: the bold, fire-forward cooking traditions of the Mediterranean translate naturally into a serious commitment to prime cuts and an equally serious commitment to what fills the glass.

That commitment to the glass has earned Doris Metropolitan a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2025 — recognition that places the restaurant among a select group of dining rooms worldwide with wine lists that go meaningfully beyond the expected. For a steakhouse rooted in Mediterranean cooking, that kind of depth matters: the right bottle doesn't just accompany the meal, it completes it.

The restaurant operates with the ease of a place that knows its audience. A business casual dress code sets a relaxed but considered tone — no enforced formality, but a quiet signal that the evening is worth dressing for. Happy hour runs Tuesday through Thursday for those who want to ease into the night, while the main dining room opens Tuesday through Sunday for dinner. Friday brings a lunch service as well, a rarer offering in a neighborhood that tends to save its energy for after dark.

One detail stands out as genuinely distinctive: guests can walk in during business hours and hand-select their specialty meats to take home. It's a butcher-counter confidence that speaks to how seriously Doris Metropolitan takes its sourcing — the kind of transparency that a Mediterranean steakhouse built on quality can afford to offer.

General Manager Christopher Curtis oversees reservations and events, handling larger parties personally — a detail that reflects the attentive, human-scale hospitality the restaurant clearly values.