{"id":9,"date":"2026-07-23T16:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:33:17","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='bd'><header class='bd-head'>\n  <a class='bd-brand' href='https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/'><span class='bd-brand-mk'>Black Diamond<\/span><span class='bd-brand-sub'>New Orleans<\/span><\/a>\n  <nav class='bd-nav'>\n    <a href='https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/'>Home<\/a>\n    <a href='https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/menu'>Menu<\/a>\n    <a href='https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/the-bottles'>The Bottles<\/a>\n    <a href='https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/reservations'>Reservations<\/a>\n    <a class='bd-btn bd-btn-gold bd-nav-cta' href='https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/reservations'>Reserve<\/a>\n  <\/nav>\n  <button class='bd-burger' aria-label='Menu'><span><\/span><span><\/span><span><\/span><\/button>\n<\/header><section class='bd-hero'>\n  <div class='bd-hero-in'>\n    <span class='bd-eyebrow'>New Orleans &middot; Louisiana<\/span>\n    <h1>Under pressure,<br><span class='it'>we became diamonds.<\/span><\/h1>\n    <p class='bd-hero-tag'>A New Orleans dining room where every bottle in the building is Black-owned. Char-broiled oysters over open flame, cast-iron steaks, and cocktails named for the legends.<\/p>\n    <div class='bd-hero-meta'>\n      <div><b>Dinner<\/b>4pm \u2013 11pm<\/div>\n      <div><b>Where<\/b>New Orleans, Louisiana<\/div>\n      <div><b>The Bar<\/b>Every bottle Black-owned<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class='bd-hero-cta'><a class='bd-btn bd-btn-gold' href='https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/reservations'>Reserve a Table<\/a><a class='bd-btn bd-btn-ghost' href='https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/menu'>View the Menu<\/a><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class='bd-scrollcue'>Pull up a chair<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='bd-band'>\n  <div class='bd-wrap'>\n    <h2>Every bottle in this building is <span class='em'>Black-owned.<\/span><\/h2>\n    <p>Not most. Not the featured ones. Every single one \u2014 every pour behind the bar, every supplier in the kitchen. Black Diamond is the room where they belong.<\/p>\n    <div style='margin-top:26px'><a class='bd-btn bd-btn-ghost' href='https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/the-bottles'>See the bottles<\/a><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='bd-sec'>\n  <div class='bd-wrap'>\n    <div class='bd-sec-head'><div class='bd-rule'><\/div><span class='bd-eyebrow'>Three reasons to sit down<\/span><h2>Cast iron, the legends, and a shelf that means it<\/h2><\/div>\n    <div class='bd-tri'>\n      <div class='bd-tile'><div class='k'>The Table<\/div><h3>Gulf &amp; Cast Iron<\/h3><p>Char-broiled oysters over open flame, blackened redfish in brown butter, hand-cut ribeye. New Orleans seafood and steak, done properly.<\/p><\/div>\n      <div class='bd-tile'><div class='k'>The Legends<\/div><h3>Cocktails With a Name<\/h3><p>Every drink is named for a Black icon \u2014 Purple Rain, Before I Let Go, Juicy, Eve&rsquo;s Bayou. Poured from the Oddusee line.<\/p><\/div>\n      <div class='bd-tile'><div class='k'>The Shelf<\/div><h3>Black-Owned, Top to Bottom<\/h3><p>Uncle Nearest, Ten To One, Branson, McBride Sisters. Every hand in the chain belongs to somebody who looks like the room.<\/p><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='bd-sec' style='background:#0e0e12;border-top:1px solid var(--bd-line);border-bottom:1px solid var(--bd-line)'>\n  <div class='bd-wrap'>\n    <div class='bd-split'>\n      <div class='bd-portrait'><span>Angel Joseph &middot; Founder &middot; photo to come<\/span><\/div>\n      <div>\n        <span class='bd-eyebrow'>The Founder<\/span>\n        <h2>Angel Joseph<\/h2>\n        <p>A New Orleans native, Angel got tired of walking into bars in a city we built, in a culture we made, and finding nothing behind the counter that belonged to us. The music was ours. The food was ours. The bottles never were.<\/p>\n        <p>So he built the room where they are. Black diamonds form deeper than white ones \u2014 under more pressure, over more time, in harder ground. That&rsquo;s not a metaphor he reached for. That&rsquo;s just the truth about how we got here.<\/p>\n        <div class='sig'>&mdash; Angel Joseph<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='bd-closing'>\n  <div class='bd-wrap'>\n    <span class='bd-eyebrow'>Dinner nightly &middot; 4pm \u2013 11pm<\/span>\n    <h2>Pull up a chair.<\/h2>\n    <p>Two drinks and a plate, and the whole night looks a little different.<\/p>\n    <div class='bd-hero-cta'><a class='bd-btn bd-btn-gold' href='https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/reservations'>Reserve a Table<\/a><a class='bd-btn bd-btn-ghost' href='https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/menu'>See the Menu<\/a><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section><footer class='bd-foot'>\n  <div class='bd-wrap bd-foot-grid'>\n    <div>\n      <div class='bd-brand-mk'>Black Diamond<\/div>\n      <div class='bd-brand-sub'>New Orleans, Louisiana<\/div>\n      <p>Every bottle in this building is Black-owned. Not most. Every single one.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div>\n      <h4>Hours<\/h4>\n      <p>Dinner &middot; 4pm \u2013 11pm<\/p>\n      <p>Kitchen closes at 11<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div>\n      <h4>Visit<\/h4>\n      <a href='https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/reservations'>Reservations<\/a>\n      <a href='https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/menu'>The Menu<\/a>\n      <a href='https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/the-bottles'>The Bottles<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <div>\n      <h4>Get the drop<\/h4>\n      <p>New pours and live dates.<\/p>\n      <form class='bd-signup' onsubmit='return false'><input type='email' placeholder='Your email' aria-label='Email'><button class='bd-btn bd-btn-gold' type='submit'>Join<\/button><\/form>\n      <a href='https:\/\/instagram.com\/'>Instagram &rarr;<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class='bd-wrap'><div class='bd-underline'>Under pressure, we became diamonds.<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class='bd-wrap bd-foot-btm'><span>&copy; Black Diamond &middot; Oddusee Group<\/span><span>New Orleans, Louisiana<\/span><\/div>\n<\/footer><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/blackdiamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}