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Nobu Hotel Caesars New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States · Nobu · Accessible Luxury
Nobu Hotel Caesars New Orleans opened in 2024 at 8 Canal Street, where the Rivergate Convention Center stood until 1995. Four hundred fifty rooms sit at the foot of Canal, between the Mississippi and the French Quarter. Matsuhisa's restaurant is in the house; Emeril's Brasserie and Manning's share the Caesars floors.
- 450 rooms
- Opened 2024
- Neighborhood: Central Business District
About Nobu Hotel Caesars New Orleans
- The Steakhouse New Orleans and 2Geaux Pho Bar are the other in-house rooms on the casino podium.
- AAA Four Diamond for 2026. The 450 rooms sit inside the Caesars complex at 8 Canal Street, at the river end of Canal.
- Harrah's and Caesars gaming sat on the cleared Rivergate site for years before the Nobu hotel floors.
History
The site at the foot of Canal Street where Caesars New Orleans now stands carries one of the more complicated origin stories in American hospitality. The land was once occupied by the Rivergate Convention Center, a modernist facility that served New Orleans's convention trade for decades before being demolished in 1995 to make way for what its backers described as the future world's largest casino. The project's development history was equally turbulent: a 1993 partnership between developer Christopher Hemmeter and Caesars World won the property lease but lost the state gaming license to Harrah's Entertainment, creating an impasse resolved only by the formation of a joint venture, "Harrah's Jazz," under pressure from then-Governor Edwin Edwards. A temporary casino opened in the Municipal Auditorium in May 1995, flooded within a week, and closed. Construction on the permanent site halted at 3 a.m. on the day before Thanksgiving 1995 as the entity filed for bankruptcy, laying off more than 4,000 workers.
Harrah's eventually took over the project, completed a scaled-back version, and opened Harrah's New Orleans Casino in October 1999. The casino became Louisiana's only land-based gaming establishment — a legal distinction codified in state law — and one of the largest gaming floors outside Nevada. Hurricane Katrina forced a shutdown in 2005, but the casino reopened February 17, 2006, in the middle of Mardi Gras celebrations.
For years Harrah's bused guests to nearby hotels for lodging, until a 27-story, 450-room hotel tower opened on September 21, 2006 — timed deliberately to coincide with the New Orleans Saints' emotional return to the Louisiana Superdome after Katrina. In 2020, Eldorado Resorts acquired Caesars Entertainment, absorbed the Harrah's brand, and announced a $325 million transformation of the entire Canal Street complex into Caesars New Orleans. Renovations ran from late 2021 through 2024, adding a second hotel tower, a comprehensive interior rebrand, an expanded sportsbook bearing the World Series of Poker name, and an overhaul of dining. The Nobu Hotel Caesars New Orleans opened as part of that 2024 transformation: a 26-floor, 450-room tower steps from the French Quarter on one side and the Mississippi riverfront on the other, housing Nobu Matsuhisa's signature Japanese dining alongside Emeril Lagasse's Brasserie in a casino complex that took nearly thirty years and a bankruptcy to finally reach its current form.
The setting
8 Canal Street, Central Business District, New Orleans, at the riverfoot of Canal beside the French Quarter.
Restaurants and bars
- Nobu — Restaurant · Japanese · Chef Nobu Matsuhisa
- Emeril's Brasserie — Restaurant · Brasserie · Chef Emeril Lagasse
- Manning's Sports Bar — Bar
- The Steakhouse New Orleans — Restaurant · Steakhouse
- 2Geaux Pho Bar — Bar
Amenities
- Casino floor
- 450 guest rooms and suites
- 10 restaurants and 5 bars/lounges
- Fitness center
- Concierge services
- Valet and self parking
- Meeting and ballroom space
- Central Business District location near Canal Street
- Spa
- Pool
- Hot tub
Awards
- AAA Four Diamond (2026)
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