Stage Door Canteen

The staff, from the A/​V tech to the waiters all the way up to the managers, were courteous, competent, and professional. The food was delicious, and the drinks kept flowing. The venue itself is gorgeous, and was the perfect mix of welcoming and classy. For our event (a pre-​wedding reception for 100), this was the perfect place with the perfect people

Very good food. One of the best places we have been to in NOLA. WWII museum to boot. Service is exceptional too.

The Bob Hope show is good and has some talented performers. The price of drinks with an Abita Amber costing almost $ 7 is absolutely ludicrous so I can’t recommend drinking here for performances. The upstairs seating isn’t the best view or seating arrangement so downstairs is far better.

I’m really hesitant to write this review now… It was announced a few weeks ago that John Besh would not be continuing his relationship with the WWII Museum and so would not be providing the dinners before the shows at this venue. BUT the change over won’t happen until August so…
The Stage Door Canteen is just what the name suggests, dinner & a show (or just a show if you like). When I went with my Mom, it was a prix fixe menu with 2 to 3 choices for each (a soup or salad, pork or seafood or chicken, bread pudding or chocolate torte) and 1 free glass of wine. (see my photo for the full menu that we were offered) You can order more wine or a cocktail from the adjoining American Sector and run a tab. I’m not sure if they can make accommodations to dietary needs or not.
Dinner service was well paced and I liked that our servers asked if we were ready for our next course to come out. The space is comfortable… until you’ve sat in the dining chairs all the way through the show, which was mostly a problem for my Mom.
My food was mostly OK. My salad was a bit underdressed, my Mom’s soup a bit undersalted. She loved her pork entrée which was easily twice the size of more lackluster seafood pasta dish. Seriously, why skimp on pasta it’s the cheapest item in there. She loved her bread pudding and my chocolate torte was HUGE and delicious and way too much.
Then there was the performance (no clinking silverware as the meal was completely cleared, thank goodness). We saw the Rat Pack show and it was really entertaining. Much of the patter seems to have been based on the Live at the Sands album (which I own and know well) but the actors did a nice job of ad-​libbing with the audience and customizing it to NOLA.
I would definitely come back for a show as those are done in house by the WWII museum. We’ll see about dinners in the future with the new company in charge.