Mr Tequila
up to12%Mexican · $$$ · Uptown
American Express Gold Card + Upside
Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+10 more
29 Mexican restaurants in New Orleans that earn more on your cards
New Orleans has 29 Mexican restaurants in our listings: 27 take a dining program and 4 have a card perk. Most common price: $$ (moderate). Top neighborhoods: Metairie (6), Kenner (3), and Uptown (3).
29 restaurants
Zocalo
up to12%Mexican · $ · Metairie
American Express Gold Card + Rakuten Dining
Resy creditHilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+10 moreEl Exquisito
up to12%American · $$ · Kenner
American Express Gold Card + Rakuten Dining
Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+9 more
- Restaurants
- 29
- Neighborhoods
- 20
- Cuisines
- 6
- Dining programs
- 14
- With a card perk
- 4
The 3 best cards to bring to dinner in New Orleans
Ranked by what each card earns across this city's restaurants at our point valuations, counting the dining program that pays most at each one. Card credits aren't counted. Upside (23 restaurants) and Bilt Dining (15) are the most widespread dining programs here, out of 29 restaurants. American Express Gold Card tops the list here on its own dining rate — ≈$6.00 on a $100 dinner before any program.
American Express Gold Card
$325 annual fee
≈$6.00 on a $100 dinner
Perks at 3 restaurants hereCard details
Chase Sapphire Reserve
$795 annual fee
≈$5.40 on a $100 dinner
Perk at 1 restaurant hereCard details
Chase Sapphire Preferred Card
$95 annual fee
≈$5.40 on a $100 dinner
Card details
14 dining programs that pay in New Orleans
Dining programs pay on top of your card. Join one, link a card, and every meal at a participating restaurant earns twice.
- Upside23 restaurantsUp to 29% back
- Bilt Dining15 restaurants1 point per $1
- AAdvantage Dining14 restaurants1–5 miles per $1
- Eat Around Town14 restaurants4–6 points per $1
- MileagePlus Dining14 restaurants0.5–5 miles per $1
- Hilton Honors Dining14 restaurants2–8 points per $1
- IHG Dine & Earn14 restaurants1–8 points per $1
- Dine Out with Wyndham14 restaurants1–5 points per $1
- TrueBlue Dining10 restaurants1–3 points per $1
- SkyMiles Dining10 restaurants0.5–5 miles per $1
- Rapid Rewards Dining10 restaurants0.5–3 points per $1
- Atmos Rewards Dining10 restaurants0.5–5 points per $1
- Rakuten Dining10 restaurants5% back
- inKind7 restaurants20% back
5 cuisines in New Orleans
Mexican in 20 New Orleans neighborhoods
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Some restaurant addresses, phone numbers, websites and cuisines come from Overture Maps Foundation open data (Meta and Microsoft, CDLA Permissive 2.0; Foursquare, Apache 2.0; AllThePlaces, CC0 1.0). Overture attribution Some neighbourhoods come from Who's On First boundaries (CC-BY 4.0). Who's On First licenses Some opening hours, phone numbers, websites and cuisines are © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). OpenStreetMap copyright