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CURE NEW ORLEANS

editor — Mon, 01 May 2017 18:55:02 +0000

Before Hurricane Katrina, there were three kinds of bars in New Orleans: Bourbon Street for getting crazy, neighborhood bars for everyday drinking, and classic spots if you were feeling upscale. Of course, there were bars that pushed these boundaries, but many spots fell within these three. The city was accustomed to these options and, as in many aspects of its culture, was suspicious of anything outside them After Katrina, the paradigm shifted. With 80 percent of the city under water, it become possible to imagine new directions for pretty much every aspect of life. While many folks were rethinking what

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ST. JOE’S NEW ORLEANS

editor — Mon, 01 May 2017 18:37:30 +0000

St. Joseph, the father of Jesus, is one of New Orleans’s favorite saints. The patron saint of carpenters, his patronage is sought when one is buying, selling or repairing a house. After Katrina, signs asking for his prayers and intercession peppered the flooded landscape. His feast day, March 19, is marked by many St. Joseph altars, which are laden with food and dismantled to feed the poor. So it was inevitable that eventually there would be a bar opened in his honor. Entering the bar feels like going to church if churches made delicious mojitos. (N.B. I’d be a much

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COCKTAIL BAR AT WINDSOR COURT NEW ORLEANS

editor — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 18:43:20 +0000

Kent Westmoreland at the Windsor Court Cocktail Bar Every time I enter the lobby of the Windsor Court, I think, “Man, this place smells so good.” Then I see the tremendous floral arrangements placed around the room and think, “Wow, those flowers are gorgeous.” Then I remember I came here to drink. The Windsor Court Hotel is elegant and formal, every facet tasteful, considered, and intentional, an equally apt description for the drinks they serve at the Cocktail Bar. The Cocktail Bar is headed by Kurt Westmorland, who was named 2015’s Mixologist of the Year by New Orleans magazine and

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SIDNEY’S SALOON NEW ORLEANS

editor — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 19:06:16 +0000

Sidney’s is named for its original owner, a musician who ran the place in the 1950s. On my most recent visit, a patron sitting next to me remembered coming to Sidney’s when Sidney himself still ran the bar. When I told him he didn’t look old enough to have been in a bar in the 1950s, he laughed and said it was when he was ten years old, but back then it was OK for children to come by a bar and get a cold drink or even pick up a beer for their parents. In the 1960s, laws changed,

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