3 listening bars in New Orleans our editors have drunk at, sorted by score. All New Orleans nightlife.
Bacchanal Wine ★ 4.8
Bywater · 600 Poland Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117
Bacchanal Wine in Bywater runs an outdoor backyard with nightly live jazz, a wine and cheese deli inside the cottage and Mediterranean small plates plated.
Tip: Music seven days a week. Pick a bottle from the shop, take it to the back patio. Weekend brunch sets start around 12:00.
Three Muses ★ 4.5
Marigny · 536 Frenchmen Street, New Orleans, LA 70116
Three Muses on Frenchmen pairs a small-plates kitchen with a low-volume music room, where Linnzi Zaorski and the Sam Doores rotate through the corner stage.
Tip: Reserve a table via the venue site; the bar walks in. Music starts around 19:00 with no cover, the room enforces quiet listening.
Compère Lapin ★ 4.6
Warehouse District · 535 Tchoupitoulas Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
Compère Lapin's bar, inside the Old No. 77 Hotel, is Nina Compton's Caribbean-French cocktail room, with an exposed brick warehouse wall, mosaic floor.
Tip: Walk in for the bar, Resy for tables. Order the goat curry with sweet potato gnocchi; the dirty rice arancini are the house snack.