Sukeban
Perks
- Complimentary chef's choice dessert any time you dine at the restaurant
About
Opened in 2022, this Oak Street izakaya, which appeared on Eater’s 2025 List of “Best Sushi in NOLA,” is the brainchild of Chef Jacqueline Blanchard, a 10th-generation Cajun from Bayou Lafourche in Southeast Louisiana’s Assumption Parish. Chef Blanchard has quite the pedigree, having cooked at such eminent establishments as 3-Michelin-Starred Thomas Keller’s French Laundry, Restaurant August, Bouchon, 2-Michelin-Starred Blue Hill at Stone Barns, and San Francisco’s 3-Michelin-Starred Benu. In 2015, Chef Blanchard returned to New Orleans to open Coutelier, a curated knife shop specializing in hand-forged Japanese cutlery. She travels annually to Japan to source these tools, supporting multi-generational Japanese blacksmiths. Her deep respect for Japanese culture and cuisine is evident in Sukeban, her first solo restaurant, where she thoughtfully sources premium Japanese ingredients as carefully as she does tools for Coutelier. Sukeban, by the way, pays tribute to Japan’s school girl gangs of the 1970s known as the “sukeban,” which translates to “boss girl.”
Category
- Restaurants
