About
New Orleans' Most Trusted Voice on Food
Tom Fitzmorris spent more than four decades chronicling the food culture of New Orleans — its restaurants, its recipes, its history, and its soul. What began as a newsletter in the 1970s grew into the most comprehensive independent guide to dining in the city.
Nomenu.com is the online home of that work: thousands of restaurant reviews, hundreds of original recipes, the Food Almanac (a day-by-day journey through culinary history), and the archives of the long-running newsletter, The New Orleans Menu.
The approach has always been the same — eat everywhere, write honestly, and trust that readers want the real story. No press dinners, no paid placements, no restaurant advertising influence over editorial. Just the food.
Since Tom's retirement, his work is carried on by Mary Ann Fitzmorris, who now hosts The Food Show, broadcast weekdays from 2–4 PM on 990 AM WGSO out of New Orleans — continuing the conversation about food that New Orleanians have been having for over 30 years.
The Archive
The nomenu.com archive contains more than 2,900 restaurant reviews covering every neighborhood, every cuisine category, every price point, and every star level in greater New Orleans. It includes restaurants long closed and restaurants that opened last month.
The recipe archive goes back to the earliest days of the newsletter — over 650 recipes drawn from restaurant kitchens, reader submissions, and Tom's own cooking. Creole classics, French-influenced dishes, seafood preparations, holiday menus.
The Food Almanac is a unique day-by-day celebration of food history — food days, culinary anniversaries, seasonal ingredients, and the stories that connect food to time and place. Available exclusively to Five Star members.