Lakeside Shopping Center

I am from Northern CA where our malls are dwindling away. Lakeside Shopping Center is a beautiful mall filled with shops and offerings. My grand children were born during the pandemic and this was their first time inside a mall! The loved the unique and artsy chairs near the entrance and made it a point to sit or crawl over or through them. Many of the popular and high end shops can be found there. There is a dancing water fountain and a food court with excellent chain style offerings. They have children's clothing specialty stores where my granddaughter picked out her birthday dress! She had never been able to shop in real time! Now we can't keep her out of stores. LOL! There is even a children's play and adventure park inside but you must make a reservation in advance. The play park is so clean! There is a handwashing station for the children that mimics a car wash so the kids need no encouragement to wash their hands at all. It's really a fun experience. Parents and guardians can enter with the children or sit and relax and watch them have an exciting playtime experience. There is something for everyone at this mall! The free parking was a breeze and an added bonus!

Pretty good! The selection of shops were plentiful. The food court looked great... ample parking!

This was the first and only mall we found during our trip to New Orleans. The mall is pretty large and has many different stores that interested me. There are also some annex stores in the mall's surrounding area. Overall I enjoyed the mall. They had a Zara and Cafe Du Monde just to name a few of places I wanted to visit while traveling. The mall was packed on a Sunday. I didn't get to visit all the wings of the mall. Hope next time I can explore more. Lakeside Shopping Center 3301 Veterans Memorial BlvdMetairie, LA 70002( Review 637 overall 181 in 2021)

For context, my family and I are black. We went to the mall today to purchase a pair of sunglasses for my husband and I. We approached the kiosk with our 4 year old son, which anyone that knows a child, knows they like to touch things...but was confronted by the owner in a rude and disrespectful manner once he saw our son reach for some of his (within reach of children) glasses. He talked directly to my son and not to his parents, threatening him telling him he had one more time to touch his shades and that they are not to hit the floor. Meanwhile, we were already cuing him to step back and EXPLAIN TO OUR SON how shades are fragile and we need to be careful. We tried to communicate to him that we were paying customers and returning customers at that but he continued to be disrespectful insinuating he didn't want our business. Also, as a side note, our son is holding a stuff bear and standing timidly at the time, just to let you know the type of kid he is..not one to be very rough and rowdy. Anyway, he begins talking to us more in a disrespectful manner, telling us to go to Oakwood and buy glasses. My guess, implying that black people are to go there and purchase shades? Then he threatens to call the mall security on us because we refused to let him speak to us in a condescending and a disrespectful matter, especially to our son. The only reason we went to the mall was to purchase some shades but he pissed all over that experience by being a racist butthole. Takeaway point, DO NOT BUY SHADES FROM THIS KIOSK. They are rude, disrespectful and among all things racists. Even a white man approached us as we were walking away and said this is not the first time the owner has been disrespectful to potential customers but yet Lakeside continues to let them do business in their mall. Smh.

We had to come and see what the mall looked like on our recent trip. They have a bunch of stores to choose from. Really enjoyed Armani exchange and Sephora. Pottery barn or any mall that has it is exciting to me. No upstairs so smaller than Georgia malls, but it will definitely get the job done. Clean from what we could tell. They also had a very cute wine bar inside of the mall that I really enjoyed vine and tap . Would return again.

According to Google, Lakeside Shopping Center was built in 1960 and is the busiest shopping in the New Orleans area. It has gone through several renovations over the years to keep up with fashion and technology. This mall features 3 anchor stores such as Dillards, Macy's, and JCPenny. Other stores include (just to name a few) Williams-Sonoma, Disney, Pottery Barn, Restoration Hardware, Apple Store, Guess, Gap.......They do have a food court and other eateries such as Cafe Du Monde and a Godiva Chocolate store. Parking can be hard to find during peak hours, so be patient. There are two covered parking areas one next to Macy's and the other is JCPenny. There is something for everyone here, be sure to checkout the cool new waterfall from the ceiling addition. It's located on the wing closest to Pottery Barn.

There was a variety of stores to shop from. The mall was also clean. It's a small mall that has basic stores. There were no particular stores that caught my eye. However, it was better to shop there instead of walking through the French Quarters or Canal Street to shop.

Great variety of stores and selection. Awesome experience. Lots of parking. Everything a shopper could want

Great mall easy access to everything been going there since I was a kid. And the food there is good too

Great stores. I wish they had more though. The restrooms are inconvenient, they are in the middle of food court.