Carousel Bar
No, it’s not you. The bar is spinning. The Hotel Monteleone's circular bartop was built on the chassis of an antique merry-go-round in 1949, and patrons make a full circuit…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
No, it’s not you. The bar is spinning. The Hotel Monteleone's circular bartop was built on the chassis of an antique merry-go-round in 1949, and patrons make a full circuit…
The Sazerac Bar on the ground floor of the Roosevelt Hotel has one of the grandest interior spaces in all of cocktaildom. With burnished wood, soft lighting and intricate tile…
With dusky ambience and candles flickering all day long, Lafitte's has long been one of the French Quarter's most picturesque and iconic buildings, and lore insists it’s housed a bar…
An uptown institution, Pascale's Manale has been around since 1913, located on Napoleon Avenue near the St. Charles streetcar stop. To get to the restaurant, one must enter through the…
Tujague’s was a workingman’s riverfront bar when it first opened in 1856, and remained so when it moved to its present location in 1914. The workingmen have since left—as has…
The Napoleon House is what people who’ve never been to New Orleans imagine the city might look like: vaguely continental, with peeling walls hung with faded portraits of Napoleon. This…
A neighborhood joint tucked deep in the Bywater near Poland Avenue, BJ’s offers the makings for a real-deal New Orleans night out. From Monday night red beans blues acts to…
In a most infamous act at Circle Bar, PUNCH writer Sarah Baird once stole a giant rabbit head from a man in a bunny suit and wore it all night.…
The neon-colored murals on this Freret St. venue are hard to pass by without ogling. Inside, electronic and new wave bands jam so hard that the small space seems to…
This hub for music, comedy, theater and burlesque on St. Claude has quickly become one of the premier venues in the city for the arts. While drink options aren’t mind-blowing,…