May 13, 2024 - Food and Drink
High Hat Cafe has a great catfish poboy
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The catfish poboy at High Hat is available grilled or fried. Photo: Luke Johnson
The comforting lunchtime hustle and bustle at High Hat Cafe in New Orleans is as good as it gets — and so is the Freret Street restaurant's catfish poboy.
What I ordered: A catfish poboy ($18), fried and fully dressed on Leidenheimer bread, with pimento mac and cheese ($6).
- The catfish is also available grilled, but I love High Hat's just-crunchy-enough, cornmeal-coated version straight from the deep fryer.
- And did I want to nap afterwards? Absolutely.
Between the lines: High Hat first opened under Chip Apperson and Adolfo Garcia, but the pair sold it to Fredo Nogueira and Ryan Iriarte last summer, Ian McNulty reports for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.
- Happily, the new owners knew the best thing they could do was not to really change anything at all.
- "It's such an institution. To see it go or change into something else would've been tragic," Iriarte told McNulty.
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