O’Henry’s Food & Spirits

Decided to go to this place despite the okay reviews and was pleasantly surprised. The two story restaurant has a great atmosphere, laid back and colorful. The balcony seating looks like it would be a great spot to hang out during the day. I enjoyed the buffalo chicken sandwich and fries and my friend had the bourbon chicken. Although we stopped in for just a quick meal, I’d recommend this place. They seem to have a great happy hour and various food specials throughout the week.

Entered from the bottom and when we asked to sit upstairs the waiter told us to go up there and seat ourselves, so we did. The waitress saw us and even though it want busy, we waited nearly 20 minutes for her to come over and even acknowledge us. Only came here for a groupon and definitely won’t be back even if the food is good. I’m seriously disappointed, GB’s is right across the street and the service is definitely better.
**Update** 25 minutes later she still hadn’t acknowledged us and another employee saw us and didn’t do anything either so we left. I mean I want to be reasonable, but when you can’t even come over and tell us you’ll be with us shortly for TWENTY FIVE MINUTES that’s just absurd. The waitress even had time to be on her phone but not come over.

Yes, this is my third time reviewing O’Henrys. I went two days in a row and will be returning tomorrow. This is officially my go-​to place for a quick or late night dinner uptown.
I always have an amazing experience with the staff here. Young, friendly, and outgoing.
I have branched out and tried a new dish — the buffalo chicken sandwich and all I have to say is YASSSS!!! I have yet to be let down by ohenrys or have any reason to take a star away from my review!
Be back tomorrow!

O’Henry’s selection of entrees has changed over the years unfortunately for the worse.
Customer service is fantastic. Each representative cares about you as a customer and are totally willing to guide you along the way. Unfortunately the food options aren’t up to par.
I in particular got the «Southern Fried Chicken Tenders» w/​red beans (instead of fries) and while the tenders were actually juicy, I still felt gipped as the tenders were not extraordinary by any means and the red beans could be equivalent to a side of red beans at Popeyes. It should be noted that my entrée came with only 4 tenders (I posted pictures of the entrée on my Unilocal page).
So to reiterate my review, the quality of food doesn’t quite match up with the quantity of food given to you. By the time you pay the amount listed on the receipt, you may feel you could have been better going somewhere else.
Just doesn’t leave any lasting impressions which is a shame because it’s O’Henry’s!

Very chill place for lunch but beware of the food/​price correlation. If you are looking for burgers or seafood, this is your place. The chicken and shrimp monica pasta I ordered was delicious! The shrimp was the best thing on the plate simply because it was the most seasoned. I can’t say that there is something for everyone since the menu has changed so much over the years. The chicken was juicy but it wasn’t exploding with as much flavor as I would’ve hoped. Red beans is a New Orleans special and you’ll find yourself equating the red beans here to other places. It may not be a good thing because you want to say one is better than the other but if I were a tourist and I came here for red beans, I’d be disappointed. The service is friendly and the environment is pretty casual. Enjoy!

We were trying to decide between here and Camelia Grill for lunch. Camelia had a higher rating, but O’Henry’s had that lovely looking outdoor balcony/​gallery and it was a beautiful day. We didn’t regret our decision because our waitress was friendly, the food was tasty, service was good, and sitting outside was pleasant.
My husband and I both got Po Boy lunch combos and we were shocked by how huge the servings were. I had the Hurricane shrimp Po boy with gumbo and my husband had the alligator sausage Po boy and a apple pecan salad. Very tasty and enjoyable lunch.

Definitely my favorite restaurant in New Orleans! The Hurricane Shrimp Po Boy was delicious. Nice and spicy, and I loved that my waitress asked if I wanted hot sauce on top of it. The crawfish Po Boy is also good, but I recommend the other sauce. Their gumbo is great too. I highly recommend sitting in the balcony area to watch the street cars go by.

Got to restaurant b4 they opened. Offered us to sit with drinks b4 kitchen opened. Great service. Pet friendly. We come to NOLA quite often and have missed out on this place. Rueben sandwich and shrimp poboy was more than amazing! We will be back! Thanks y’all!

Such a comfortable little «burger-​n-​beer» place! Enjoy everything we’ve ever ordered. A must try is the chicken tchoupitoulas!!! Finger lickin’ good with the sautéed crawfish and Monica sauce! Yumm!

Ok, first — the fried pickles were great. My husband liked his burger. That’s the end of the good news. Table and chairs had food crumbs all over them. I ordered a chicken sandwich on a jalapeño cheese bun. Sounds good, huh? It came on a cold untoasted ciabatta roll– think half cooked biscuit dough. When I told the waiter, he argued with me (I’m 60, I know what jalapeños and cheese both look and taste like), didn’t offer to do anything to correct it and avoided us as much as he could from then on. I took the bread off and ate the chicken breast with a knife and fork. Not much flavor, but okay. Then the manager came over (with an attitude), and said «so one of you has a problem with the bread?» I told her the same thing I told the waiter and she argued with me, pointing to one little dark speck in the bread– there’s a jalapeño. Her excuse was that they don’t make their own bread– what does that have to do with anything? She left, only to return apologizing for being confrontational. I told her I am not used to being argued with by not one but 2 employees. She gave me a card for $ 10 off the next time– like there will be a next time! While all of this was going on, we watched a huge roach crawl across the window. Nice.
BTW– her card went in the trash. I have a business a block away and we had hoped to be able to add this place to our «lunch rotation «. Mediocre food, horrible service, dirty– we’ll go to one of the 8 other restaurants in the area. Disgusting experience– never again.

My wife and I were looking for a late lunch but every restaurant we wanted to go to was a closed, it was a Monday. We ended up at O’Henrys, it was not busy and the service was very friendly but a little inattentive. I ordered the tuna sandwich and thought it was delicious, my wife ordered one of their hamburgers and it was one of the better burgers I’ve had in NO. Their menu says they grind filet mignon fresh every morning for their burgers, the meat was outstanding. I would have no problem sending people to O’Henrys for a burger.

One of my favorite spots uptown. Great food– I’ve been dozens of times and never tried anything that I didn’t like. Great staff– super friendly and genuinely cool people. Great happy hour! $ 2 margaritas/​$ 6 burgers on Tuesdays, every other day they’ve got really good margs (all different flavors– my fav is Blackberry Moonshine) for $ 4 or $ 5. If you haven’t been already, I highly recommend it!

Cuisine traditionnelle américaine savoureuse. On en a pour son argent. Service rapide et efficace.

The best thing about this place is the balcony. And that really is just for folks like me who just love to be outdoors anytime possible. In fact, that is how I ended up here, I was headed to the Milk Bar but decided I wanted to sit outside because it was one of those rare days in New Orleans where there was a nice gentle breeze.
The first thing I noticed, the building itself could use a little loving. Just clean enough to feel sanitary but not much above that. The menu is HUGE absolutely too much stuff on there. It is relatively expensive for the generic Louisiana version of applebees food that is served. We both had burgers which were decent but nothing to get excited about. The fries were good but I am sure they were frozen. The servers were young and young. Not bad but not necessarily invested in their job which is fine.
As a business model, they really may be on to something because there are so many other highly rated restaurants nearby they may feel like, why bother investing and trying to improve. So, overall, nothing that made me clutch my pearls.

Tasty food, beer selections were limited. I liked the basket of peanuts, nice touch. Very good cat fish and beans and rice. The portion of fried oysters was disappointing, 6 for $ 16? That’s why the 3 and not a 4, 10 were the minimum I expected.

I really tried to give O Henry’s a chance! The only time my meal was decent is when I only ordered a basket of fries with my many beers. Potential customers keep in mind appetizers are small, spicy is mild, and medium rare is closer to medium well. The only thing positive here is the beer, environment and the staff.

This place was great! We stopped in with my daughter’s volleyball team. Nothing like a group of 20 showing up on your doorstep! They were very accommodating. Their service was fast and friendly! We will def be back! Thanks again!
PS– the Bloody Mary was soooo yummy!

Came here with the family on a weeknight. Service was off that day maybe because no one seated us, rather they told us where NOT to sit and just expected us to roam around and find a table.
Tried the gumbo which was good, fiancé had the bisque which was great. My shrimp po boy was ok, fiancé liked his burger. Overall decent food, bad service. Could be a one off, will try again to make sure

Came here with my SO for a late dinner a couple weeks ago. We got spinach dip, which came with very greasy chips (but still yummy). We also split grilled redfish with broccoli, onion rings, and pasta. Everything was delicious, which was quite surprising. We generally never come here because there are so many other awesome places close by, but it was good.

I grew up with the founder of O’Henry’s family. Henry Rosenblatt is a great guy and O’Henry’s was a decent place in the 80’s and 90’s. Fast forward to 2014…
Besides the restaurant being completely filthy, unfriendly service and overpriced, the food is terrible.
To say that the grilled chicken sandwich I had tasted like cardboard would be an insult to cardboard.
The «bowl» of gumbo was a cup serving in a bowl.
*Throwing peanut shells on the ground was a trademark of these restaurants. Our disgruntled waiter greeted us by telling us «THE RULE IS NO PEANUT SHELLS ON THE GOUND». None of us care about throwing peanut shells on the ground but politely informing us that they should be placed in a basket is the correct way to treat a customer.
Never, ever again.

Avoid this place. Without an ounce of exaggeration, I honestly believe this to be one of the worst meals I’ve ever had. Waited an hour for four hamburgers and fries. Not busy. Barely half full, though they repeatedly blamed it on being slammed. After waiting an hour (no one else was getting food quicker — I even saw a table wait another 10 mins for silverware after their food finally arrived), I just asked that they just box it up to-​go. The turkey burger tasted like cold cardboard. It came dressed with avocado… that’s all (see photo above). There was no lettuce, tomato or even ketchup, mustard, etc. on any of the burgers.
I would consider it a slow Sat night in Carrolton. No excuse for this horrible, overpriced, below fast food quality food.