New Orleans’ creative, laid-back spirit is embodied in, well, our spirits, but there’s more to drinking here than downing frozen daiquiris and Hand Grenades on Bourbon Street...
New Orleans is the birthplace of the cocktail, the go-cup, the drive-thru daiquiri shop, the hurricane, the grasshopper, the sazerac – we could go on and on. Suffice it to say that New Orleans is also home to several popular festivals and events every year that call out to beer, wine and cocktail enthusiasts from around the world.
New Orleans’ creative, laid-back spirit is embodied in, well, our spirits, but there’s more to drinking here than downing frozen daiquiris and Hand Grenades on Bourbon Street...
Taste the finest craft cocktails and celebrate New Orleans's intoxicating atmosphere at one of these lounges or hotel bars.
Spark a flame or rekindle an old one at one of New Orleans's many velvety lounges or candle-lit courtyards that are sure to stir up desire.
A Creole apothecary created the Sazerac in his shop on Royal Street. It has changed over time but is still a part of history.
Learn the history of--and how to make--one of New Orleans’ most famous cocktails
Let us all praise Antoine Amédé Peychaud, who mixed the first the very first Sazerac in his Royal Street pharmacy sometime in the 1830s. Or maybe credit should go to Thomas Handy, a...