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- Wendell Pierce, who plays trombone player Antoine Batiste, is not really a trombonist, but when he got the role he started taking lessons so that his handling of the instrument would look credible on screen. An offscreen professional trombone player provides the actual music for Batiste's scenes of playing the instrument.
- When Janette Desautel's father tastes her cooking, he praises it by saying "we are not in Huntsville any more." Kim Dickens, who plays Janette, was born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. One of the First Season DVD extras says that the writers deliberately made the decision that the character of Janette was from Huntsville so that Dickens could use her everyday voice and accent in the role instead of having to affect a New Orleans accent.
- A 2012 story on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" reported that the character of Janette Desautel (played by Kim Dickens) is loosely based on New Orleans chef Susan Spicer, who owns and is head chef at Bayona.
- Elizabeth Ashley, who plays Davis's Aunt Mimi, was a close friend of the playwright Tennessee Williams (who was closely associated with New Orleans during his adult life, and who set many of his plays there). She is also known as one of the preeminent stage interpreters of his female characters; starting with her performance as Maggie in a 1974 Broadway revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Ashley has played nearly all of Williams's main female roles.
- Many real New Orleans and New Orleans-area restaurants, bars, and other venues have been featured on the show. These include: Lil' Dizzy's Cafe; Vaughan's; Cafe Du Monde; Mosca's Restaurant; Tipitina's; Dooky Chase's Restaurant; The Rock'n'Bowl; The Blue Nile; and many others. Janette's fictional New Orleans restaurant, Desautel's, was "played" by the real-life restaurant Patois. Storylines have also focused on the real-life New York restaurant Le Bernadin and a fictionalized version of the real restaurants Momofuku Ko and Ssäm Bar (called "Lucky Peach," after those restaurants' chef's cooking magazine). These New York-set scenes are actually filmed on a soundstage in New Orleans.
- Real New Orleans musicians or bands who have appeared on the show as themselves include: Kermit Ruffins; Coco Robicheaux; Donald Harrison Jr.; Dr. John; John Boutte; Art Neville; Irma Thomas; Clarence 'Frogman' Henry; Troy 'Trombone Shorty' Andrews; the Dirty Dozen Brass Band; Galactic; the Hot 8 Brass Band; and many more.
- Real chefs and/or restaurant owners who have appeared on the show as themselves include: Eric Ripert (Le Bernadin in New York); JoAnn Clevenger (Upperline restaurant in New Orleans); David Chang (of the Momofuku restaurant group in New York); Tom Colicchio (formerly of the Grammercy Tavern in New York); Wylie Dufresne (wd~50 restaurant in New York); Leah Chase (of Dooky Chase's in New Orleans); Donald Link (Cochon Butcher in New Orleans).
- SPOILER: The character of Oliver Thomas, the New Orleans politician who gives Toni's daughter Sophie an internship, is forced to resign his office after he admits to taking bribes. He is played by Oliver M. Thomas Jr., who served as a New Orleans City Councilman from 1994 to August 2007, when he resigned his council position after pleading guilty to a federal bribery charge.
- Tim Robbins became a fan of the show while he was shooting in New Orleans for Green Lantern, watching it at the motel he was staying in. Impressed with the realism of Treme, Robbins contacted David Simon and eventually directed an episode.
- Davis rails against the station's policy of playing songs from a list he describes as "every The Big Easy (1986), Crescent City (2011), 'Care Forgot' compilation ever made." The titles he reads off are, in fact, all on the soundtrack to the Big Easy, which featured Treme star 'John Goodman' in a supporting role.
- During their walk, Creighton Bernette shows his daughter some former locations of buildings that were destroyed during Katrina, and points out one that was used during the filming of the movie The Big Easy. John Goodman, who plays Creighton, appeared in a role in The Big Easy. He enjoyed that shoot in New Orleans so much that he accepted a role in another movie shooting there the next year, Everybody's All American, during which he met the woman he married in 1989, and Goodman has maintained a residence in New Orleans ever since.
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