Tremé
Tremé is a neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Tremé is a neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana. "Tremé" is often rendered as Treme, and the neighborhood is sometimes called by its more formal French name, the Faubourg Tremé; it is listed in the New Orleans City Planning Districts as Tremé / Lafitte when including the Lafitte Projects.
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Worth seeing in and around Tremé
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 08Saint Louis Cemetery
Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, consisting of three discontiguous parcels
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Backstreet Cultural Museum
Philip Street, backstreetcmuseum@gmail.com.
- 02Basin Street Station
The old Southern Railway train station has been remodeled; the ground floor has a visitors information center with gift shop, informative film and local museum exhibits free of charge.
- 03Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts
This is one of the largest performance venues in the city, and is frequently used by the Louisiana Symphony Orchestra and for large scale dance performances and musicals.
- 04Municipal Auditorium
Old neoclassical stone auditorium from c.
- 05Perseverance Hall
At the Saint Claude entrance to the park, is a 19th-century dance hall, usually vacant, but sometimes used for music, exhibits, and other events.
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Things to do
- 01Tour Tremé
718 N Rampart Street (tour meets at The Voodoo Lounge),.
- 02Candlelight Lounge
This is one of New Orleans' truly great neighborhood bars/jazz clubs.
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Where to eat
- 01Tremé Coffeehouse
1501 Saint Philip Street (at corner of N.
- 02Dooky Chase
Dooky Chase is right up there with Willy Mae's below, vying for the status of most famous soul food restaurant in the city.
- 03Lil Dizzy's
Another Creole soul food restaurant in the neighborhood (surprise surprise!), run by members of the Baquet family, locally famous for great chefs and jazz musicians for generations.
- 04Willie Mae's
- 05Wing Shack
The name sums it up well, although its misspelled all over the place as "Wing Snack"--the sign, the menu--the owner hasn't bothered to change it back, and it's not like that's a bad name either.
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Getting to Tremé
- Airports
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans (MSY), 19 km · Pensacola (PNS), 283 km
- Pensacola → Tremé279 km · quickest by road, 4h 37m · $26–35
- Houston → Tremé511 km · quickest by air, 5h 1m · $200–290
- Birmingham → Tremé7295 km · quickest by air, 16h 29m · £940–1,450
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Tremé
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tremé. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextThe ferry at the foot of Canal Street (free for pedestrians, $1 for cars) will take you across the Mississippi to the Algiers neighborhood, and give you a scenic budget mini-cruise of the River in the process.
From Wikivoyage: New Orleans/French Quarter, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Tremé – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Tremé
Tremé is 2 km from New Orleans, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- New Orleanslargest city of the state of Louisiana, United States1 km
- Orleans Parishparish of Louisiana that forms a consolidated city–parish with New Orleans2.3 km
- French Quarterneighborhood of and historic district in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States1.4 km
- Storyvilledistrict of New Orleans1 km
- Faubourg Marignyneighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States1.8 km
- Bywaterneighbourhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA3.3 km