JEFFERSON, La. — Guy Fieri has put a lot of Louisiana restaurants on the national map. Over the course of Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives, he has visited more than two dozen spots across the state, from the back streets of New Orleans to the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. The show has featured po’boy shops, BBQ joints, Creole creameries, and neighborhood bars that locals swear by.
But when food publication Delish ranked the single best Triple D stop in every state, Louisiana’s winner wasn’t a French Quarter landmark or an Uptown dining room with a James Beard pedigree.
It was a 100-year-old building on River Road in Jefferson Parish, right along the Mississippi River, that the owners describe as a neighborhood tavern, live music club, sports bar, and small-town restaurant all at once.
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What Makes the Rivershack Tavern Different From Every Other Louisiana Triple D Stop
The building that houses the Rivershack is more than a century old. It has been a house, a grocery store, a bar, and a café at various points in its life before reopening as the Rivershack Tavern in 1990. The age of the building is notable, but what turned up inside the walls is what people remember…