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Tremé
New Orleans neighborhood in Louisiana, United States

Tremé

Tremé is a neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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"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.

Get in

Getting to Tremé

A car is quite a good way to make your way around the Tremé if you intend to venture any further than the cemetery, Louis Armstrong Park, and the few sights just east of the park—getting to the specific restaurants is a pain without one, and it's not the safest part of town after dark to hang out waiting for buses or take long walks. Even for most of the B&Bs, having a car is going to be a big help.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Backstreet Cultural Museum

    Philip Street, backstreetcmuseum@gmail.com.

  2. 02
    Basin 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.

  3. 03
    Mahalia 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.

  4. 04
    Municipal Auditorium

    Old neoclassical stone auditorium from c.

  5. 05
    Perseverance 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.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Tour Tremé

    718 N Rampart Street (tour meets at The Voodoo Lounge),.

  2. 02
    Candlelight Lounge

    This is one of New Orleans' truly great neighborhood bars/jazz clubs.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Tremé Coffeehouse

    1501 Saint Philip Street (at corner of N.

  2. 02
    Dooky 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.

  3. 03
    Lil 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.

  4. 04
    Willie Mae's
  5. 05
    Wing 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.

How locals move

Getting around Tremé the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

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