Oysters under Southern folk art

An oyster bar in a 1908 landmark

Fresh oysters are one of the three things Nola is known for — alongside craft cocktails and jambalaya — and they get their own bar inside the historic Pedro de Lemos building, which has stood on the Ramona corridor since 1908. The two-story restaurant wraps its eight dining rooms around an open-air courtyard, and the walls carry one of the largest collections of Southern folk art on the West Coast. The menu around the oysters mixes Creole, Cajun and Latin cuisine, the way the city it's named for always has.