Is Katie's Restaurant Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 11, Episode 10 Aired March 21, 2011

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Katie's Restaurant in New Orleans's Mid-City neighborhood for the March 21, 2011 episode 'Fully Loaded' (S11E10), spotlighting the kitchen's scratch-made Creole comfort food and cocktail program. Katie's has operated as a family-owned neighborhood restaurant since 1984, currently led in the kitchen by Chef Scot Craig. According to Katie's website, checked 2026-09-08, the Mid-City location at 3701 Iberville Street listed active online ordering, a reservation and waitlist system, and a full bar menu. The site advertised 2026-season Thursday crab boils, daily happy-hour drink and food specials, a weekend brunch menu served Saturdays until 2 p.m. and all day Sunday, and a sister restaurant in the Lakeview neighborhood. Katie's website also listed private dining, catering, and gift card options, along with a dedicated media and press page.

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 24, Episode 4 Aired January 20, 2016

Katie's Restaurant, a Creole comfort-food restaurant in the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans, appeared in the Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives episode 'Rockin' New Orleans' (Food Network, aired 2016-01-20). According to the restaurant's own website, Katie's was founded in 1984 by Leo Leininger, who named it after his mother, and has been owned by the Craig family since 1994.

Food Paradise, Season 9, Episode 2

Katie's Restaurant & Bar appeared in this episode as part of a brunch-themed lineup, spotlighting its Creole-style brunch cooking. The restaurant's web address, katiesinmidcity.com, identifies its New Orleans neighborhood as Mid-City. According to the restaurant's website, current offerings include a dedicated weekend brunch menu, a main dinner menu, and private dining and catering services (katiesinmidcity.com, checked 2026-09-09).

You Gotta Eat Here!, Season 4, Episode 14 Aired May 1, 2015

Katie's Restaurant & Bar was the New Orleans stop in the Season 4 episode of You Gotta Eat Here! titled "Lisa Marie, The Burner Restaurant and Launge, Katie's Restaurant & Bar," which aired 2015-05-01. TheTVDB's episode description says host John Catucci sampled seafood beignets, crawfish étouffées and chargrilled oysters in the Big Easy, and TVmaze's summary also mentions seafood beignets. The restaurant is at 3701 Iberville Street in the Mid-City neighborhood. According to its own website, Katie's is a family-owned neighborhood restaurant that has served scratch-made Creole comfort food since 1984, and the site lists chargrilled oysters and crawfish beignets among its dishes. In October 2026 the website listed weekday and weekend hours, a weekend brunch menu, private dining and catering pages, and Thursday crab boils for the 2026 season (katiesinmidcity.com).