Booty's Street Food New Orleans Bywater

Booty's is located at 800 Louisa St, New Orleans, LA 70117

 

Booty's continues the NOLA Bywater tradition of ambitious restaurants. The dinner menu has tacos, dumplings, octopus, mofongo, ramen, and other assorted soups and vegetarian items. This type of restaurant is not operating solely for profit. You don't do a menu with proteins and dishes from all over the globe without ambition. It is a huge challenge to do such a versatile menu for such a great value. We ate four dishes and each of them were memorable and above average.

I started with a bywater bomber, which is a elevated daiquiri. It was delicious like a fresh citrus fruit slush. A good drink should be pleasing to anyone, and this was a good drink. We ordered tacos, fries, Korean dumplings, and octopus skewers. Now the details.

The item I was most critical of was the octopus skewers. The octopus was grilled well but the chili sauce on it was overpowering. Octopus has a delicate flavor and the chili sauce was too loud to be complementary.

The Belgian fries were great, creamy and uniform. The shape of each fry was similar, like long finger width 3-D rectangles. We ate these on the side while we ate tacos and dumplings. The tacos are served in a sampler format. Four different tacos each a different style. One a Caribbean style with drum and pineapple salsa, a Korean pork kimchi taco, and two different South American styles. My favorite taco was the drum, good white flaky fish taco with clean flavors. 

Booty's menu items are global.

Korean dumplings, were crispy crunchy and the sauce for them was soy citrus. Soy sauce tends to be overly salty but the citrus flavor made it light and aromatic.

The challenge for Booty's is doing a hundred different things while maintaining a high standard. Booty's meets this challenge. People don't do difficult things just for the money. They do it for satisfaction. 

New Orleans is lucky to have an ambitious restaurant scene. Booty's is definitely a factor. Today's food nerds want excitement and surprise. They want to learn new cultures. Restaurants are evolving to stand for more than food and drink, purely for profit. New Orleans restaurants have to power to be catalysts. I think Booty's and the New Orleans Bywater are moving things forward.

Oh and did I mention, the most expensive thing on the menu is $10! Man this place is some One Hundred plus type shhhhhhh.