The Best Places in New Orleans
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Rank 192. Tujague’s
Cocktail Bar
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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The shattered-glass bar-top with a built-in refrigerator for fresh produce is a good sign you're in a proper cocktail bar, not just somewhere with a drinks menu. The room is moody and low-lit, with funky music competing gently with classic films on a flat screen, Gone with the Wind one moment, Indiana Jones the next. The polystyrene ceiling tiles are a Quiznos inheritance, which gives the whole effort a certain scrappy charm.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 203. Peychaud’s
Cocktail Bar
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- VinePair Drinks Professional of the Year · The Next Wave Awards · Neal Bodenheimer
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Robert LeBlanc - LeBlanc + Smith
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
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Rank 206. Bulldog Pub
Beer Bar
The log-cabin feel is no accident: red wood ceiling, timber-clad walls, and a long solid bar give this neighborhood pub on Magazine Street the warmth of somewhere that's been broken in properly. It draws locals and Tulane students rather than tourists, with around fifty taps pouring everything from Abita Andygator to Belgian ales and American microbrews. A good place to disappear into a beer and feel like a regular by the second round.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 3.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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A Mid City corner bar in an otherwise residential stretch, Crescent Sausage and Pie is the kind of neighborhood spot that keeps the lights a little too bright and doesn't apologize for it. Fragments of the original building, lost to Katrina, are worked into the walls, which gives the place a quiet history lesson you weren't expecting. The cocktail list is short; come for the atmosphere, not the mixology.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 3 stars · Difford's Guide
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Cold Amber beer, live jazz, and a room that looks like nothing has been touched since the Nixon administration. Fritzel's is a no-frills jazz pub on Bourbon Street that skips cocktails, skips mood lighting, and skips any pretense of being a bar that cares about its wine list. What it has instead is the music, which is the whole point, and an atmosphere that feels less performed than almost anything else on the block.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 3 stars · Difford's Guide
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 3 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 206. Old Absinthe House
Cocktail Bar
The bar where the Absinthe Frappé was invented, back when this corner of Bourbon Street was still a serious place to drink. The original bar counter survived Prohibition by getting auctioned off and exiled down the block; it's back now, in a back room, which feels about right. A French Quarter institution that pulls tourists, locals, and everyone in between through the same swinging door, trading on history that most bars would kill for.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 2.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 206. Pat O'Brien’s Bar
Cocktail Bar
The Hurricane, that tall, rum-soaked fruit bomb, is said to have been born here, though New York City has lodged a competing claim. Either way, Pat O'Brien's is where it became a phenomenon, and five bars spread across several rooms and a sprawling courtyard ensure you have ample space to test that theory. The carriageway entrance, lined with crossed muskets, sets the tone before you even order.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 2.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 206. Ste. Marie (Sainte Marier)
Wine Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 3 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 206. The Alibi
Dive Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 3 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 206. The Swizzle Stick Bar
Cocktail Bar
A cocktail bar off the lobby of the Loews Hotel, run by the Brennan family, the Commander's Palace dynasty that makes hospitality feel like a genetic condition. The signature Adelaide Swizzle comes with a "secret ingredient" the bartender will strongly imply is Falernum, plus a couple of theatrical pours he'll perform on request if you ask nicely and look like you mean it.
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- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 3.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2022 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bar Program
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Rank 216. High Hat Cafe
Southern
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- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Allison Richard
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- Bon Appétit Bon Appétit: America's Best New Restaurants