15 editor picks in New Orleans.
The Sazerac Bar at The Roosevelt serves a signature Sazerac, the drink the Louisiana Legislature made the city's official cocktail in 2008. The Old Absinthe House is on Bourbon Street, Jewel of the South on St Louis Street and Cure on Freret Street. The Carousel Bar on Royal Street has turned since 1949, one rotation every 15 minutes.
15 cocktail bar places in New Orleans we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in New Orleans · Cocktail Bar across every city.
Jewel of the South, a classic New Orleans tavern reimagined, serves innovative cocktails, caviar and seasonal cuisine, and won a James Beard Award.
The Sazerac Bar, a restored landmark in The Roosevelt New Orleans just steps from the French Quarter, serves famous original cocktails to its guests.
Cure opened on Freret Street in 2009 and is credited with pioneering the craft cocktail movement in New Orleans; it won a James Beard award in 2018.
Drink Rum cocktails
Cane & Table crafts tiki inspired cocktails with an emphasis on rum in the French Quarter, alongside Chef Alfredo Nogueira's Caribbean and Cuban menus.
Drink Daiquiri (El Floridita style)
Manolito is a little cradle of the daiquiri in the French Quarter, honoring Manolito Carbajo Aguiar of Havana's El Floridita and its blending techniques.
Erin Rose is a casual French Quarter bar a few feet off Bourbon Street, where locals, artists, musicians and tourists mingle over food from Killer Poboys.
Drink Pimm's Cup
Napoleon House, run by the Impastato family from 1914 and Ralph Brennan since 2015, was the first establishment in America to offer Pimm's Cups.
Arnaud's French 75 Bar took its name in 2003 and makes classically focused handcrafted cocktails at a vintage bar custom-built in the late 1800s.
Twelve Mile Limit, opened in 2010 in a building that has been a bar since at least the 1920s, is a cocktail dive in Mid-City with nightly food pop-ups.
Bar Tonique is at 820 N Rampart St, New Orleans, LA 70116.
The Carousel Bar & Lounge at Hotel Monteleone has been spinning since 1949, completing a rotation every 15 minutes, with live music seven nights a week.
The Elysian Bar, inside Hotel Peter & Paul in the Marigny, is a restaurant, bar and café with seasonal dishes and an award-winning bar program.
Saturn Bar is at 3067 St Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117.
Drink Absinthe frappe
The Old Absinthe House, built in 1806 on Bourbon and Bienville, is where Cayetano Ferrer created the Absinthe House Frappe behind the bar in 1874.
Twelve Mile Limit is a relaxed cocktail dive in Mid-City, founded in 2010, serving well-crafted cocktails, craft beer and rotating food pop-ups.
