The Carousel Bar is a bar in New Orleans.
The Carousel Bar in New Orleans is the rotating carousel inside Hotel Monteleone on Royal Street, where the Vieux Carre cocktail was invented in 1938.
Editorially verified May 18, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Food program: Bar snacks
Tip: The bar itself rotates, one full turn every 15 minutes; the booths around it do not move.
Address: 214 Royal St, New Orleans, LA 70130
The Elysian Bar in New Orleans is the Marigny lounge inside the Hotel Peter and Paul on Burgundy Street, with European wines, classic aperitifs.
Signature drink: Aperitif rotation
Food: Bar snacks and small plates
Tip: The back courtyard is the prettiest seat; the rectory bar has the longer pour list.
Saturn Bar in New Orleans is the St Claude Avenue dive bar in the 9th Ward, with painted walls, cold beer and a fluorescent-light interior that has run.
Signature drink: Cold beer and well drinks
Food: None
Tip: Cash only and no kitchen; pre-game across the street at the Country Club or at Bywater Bakery.
The Old Absinthe House in New Orleans is the 1807 Bourbon Street bar at Bienville, with marble fountains for absinthe drips and the canonical absinthe frappe.
Signature drink: Absinthe frappe
Food: None
Tip: The absinthe frappe is the historical drink; the marble fountains drip cold water into the glass.
Jewel of the South in New Orleans is Chris Hannah's St Louis Street cocktail temple in an 1830s Creole cottage, four-time North America's 50 Best South USA.
Signature drink: Brandy Crusta
Food: Full dinner menu upstairs
Tip: The brandy crusta was invented by Joseph Santini in New Orleans circa 1850; this is the canonical version.
The Sazerac Bar in New Orleans is the 1949 Art Deco bar inside the Roosevelt Hotel on Roosevelt Way, the spiritual home of America's first branded cocktail.
Signature drink: Sazerac
Food: Bar snacks
Tip: The Ramos Gin Fizz is the second canonical drink here; the bartender will shake it for the requisite 12 minutes.
Cure in New Orleans is the Freret Street cocktail bar in a 1907 firehouse from Neal Bodenheimer, on the North America's 50 Best Bars list since 2018.
Signature drink: Seasonal cocktail menu
Food: Small plates and bar food
Tip: Cure prints a seasonal menu but the regular order is to tell the bartender what you like and what you don't.
