Grill Room at Windsor Court Launches Wine Wednesdays and New Dinner Menu

NEW ORLEANS, May 27, 2026 — The Grill Room at The Windsor Court, the only four-star and four-diamond restaurant in Louisiana, has introduced two new recurring dining programmes, a heritage-inspired dinner menu drawn from the restaurant's celebrated past and a weekly Wine Wednesday promotion offering significant discounts across its cellar, as the Central Business District landmark moves to deepen guest engagement beyond its established Jazz Brunch format.

The additions give diners structured weekly reasons to return to one of New Orleans' most formally composed dining rooms, and signal a broader push by The Windsor Court to position The Grill Room as a destination for repeat local visits rather than solely a destination for hotel guests and special occasions.

Together the two programmes anchor different points of the dining week, midweek accessibility through Wine Wednesdays, and an elevated evening experience through the new dinner menu, creating a fuller weekly calendar at a restaurant where the quality of the wine list and the depth of the culinary legacy had previously been known primarily to regulars and committed fine-dining seekers.

Wine Wednesdays at The Grill Room Offer Deep Discounts on a 1,060-Bottle List

Every Wednesday, The Grill Room now offers 50% off select bottles of wine and 25% off wines by the glass, pricing that gives guests access to one of New Orleans' most extensive hotel wine lists at midweek value. The cellar runs to 1,060 selections across 5,290 bottles, with particular depth in Burgundy and California, and the Wine Wednesday programme opens that collection to a wider audience through its weekly format.

The selection available under the promotion spans sparkling wines, Champagne, crisp whites, rosé, and bold reds drawn from Champagne, Burgundy, Bordeaux, Napa Valley, Willamette Valley, Alsace, Tuscany, and other celebrated wine regions. Guests can order by the glass from producers including Veuve Clicquot and Pommery, or select from bottles including Chablis, Sancerre, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Pinot Noir from the featured list.

The programme runs during The Grill Room's regular Wednesday dinner service, which operates from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. The restaurant describes the format as suited to date nights, midweek dinners with friends, and wine discovery, a deliberate attempt to make the venue feel approachable on a Wednesday rather than reserved purely for weekend celebrations.

New Dinner Menu Honours Chef Kevin Graham's Simply Elegant Legacy

The Grill Room's new dinner menu takes its inspiration from Simply Elegant: The Cuisine of the Windsor Court Hotel, the 1992 cookbook by Chef Kevin Graham that documented the restaurant's golden era, the period when The Grill Room held five AAA Diamonds and stood among the most formally recognized hotel restaurants in the United States.

Today's culinary team, led by Culinary Director Igor Krichmar and Executive Chef Vlad Kogan, has revived and reinterpreted signature dishes from that period rather than reproducing them directly. The result is a menu that references Graham's culinary vision while placing it in the hands of a kitchen working in 2026. Featured dishes include frog legs with champagne mustard sauce and Chinese lacquered duck with a coffee-mandarin glaze, both carrying the flavour complexity and classical French-American technique that defined the Graham era.

Guests can order from the menu on an à la carte basis or opt for a four-course tasting experience priced at $90 per person, giving diners a structured path through the breadth of the kitchen's current work without committing to a fully fixed tasting menu format.

The Grill Room's Standing in New Orleans Fine Dining

The Grill Room sits on the ground floor of The Windsor Court Hotel at 300 Gravier Street in the Central Business District. The room faces the hotel courtyard through bay windows and carries what regular guests and critics have consistently described as an English country house sensibility filtered through a New Orleans understanding of comfort, scale, and hospitality.

The restaurant operates across multiple dayparts, breakfast Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., lunch Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., dinner Wednesday through Sunday from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., and Jazz Brunch on Saturdays and Sundays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Jazz Brunch format, featuring the Christopher Kohl Trio on weekends and resident artists including Robin Barnes on select evenings, has long served as one of the restaurant's most consistently attended weekly programmes.

The Grill Room also carries a "meat and three" Plate Lunch menu priced at $28 on weekday lunch service, a format that positions the venue as accessible at multiple price points throughout the week, not only at its fine-dining dinner tier.

The Windsor Court holds a Forbes Travel Guide recognition and is a member of Preferred Hotels and Resorts. The hotel's wine programme and culinary credentials have kept The Grill Room on the short list of New Orleans' most formally recognized dining rooms for three consecutive decades.

Reservations for The Grill Room are recommended and can be made through OpenTable or by calling 504-596-4300. Wine Wednesday operates every week during regular dinner service. Further details on the full wine list and dinner menu are available at thewindsorcourt.com.

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