SIDNEY’S SALOON NEW ORLEANS
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 …
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N7 NEW ORLEANS
Route Nationale 7, or “N7,” was France’s version of Route 66, a mythical road that defined summer for generations of French families. In the 1950s and ’60s, the road …
JUNCTION NEW ORLEANS
Aptly located near the train tracks separating the Marigny from the Bywater, Junction was opened in 2015 by the same folks who own Molly’s at the Market in the …
BACCHANAL NEW ORLEANS
Bacchanal started as a hole in the wall, one-room wine shop at the corner of Poland and Chartres. It opened when the Bywater neighborhood was charming and dingy. Nothing …
OLD POINT BAR NEW ORLEANS
The Old Point Bar has appeared in over forty movies, including Green Lantern, the Oscar-winning Ray, Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables, and Nicolas Cage’s Seeking Justice. And there’s good reason, …
ALGIERS NEW ORLEANS
The British were defeated at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, but if they had managed to make it up the river, they would have found a patch …
THE VOODOO NEW ORLEANS
Back in 2009,1 had a roommate who worked the graveyard shift at the Voodoo, and I would often pop in for a drink to keep him company. Back then, …
TUJAGUE’S NEW ORLEANS
In the mid-nineteenth century, the French Quarter was a working-class neighborhood, filled with immigrants who sold their wares at the French Market. Work started before dawn and ended midday …
SYLVAIN NEW ORLEANS
Several years ago, I attended a bachelorette party in the French Quarter where I had the worst Manhattan of my life. As soon as I could politely excuse myself, …
GALATOIRE’S 33 NEW ORLEANS
When you are a 100-year-old restaurant, the presumption is that you will stick with what you know and not try anything new. How nice that Galatoire’s ignored this paean …