French Quarter Bars French Quarter bars like Molly’s at the Market are filled with both character and liquor. We include iconic spots in the French Quarter as well as less touristic bars in the Bywater, our favorite NOLA neighborhood, and a couple rooftop bars for good measure. Read on to discover 13 bars to include on your next New Orleans bar crawl. Plus, most NOLA bars have air conditioning, a godsend from the city’s inevitable semi-tropical heat and humidity. We also enjoy colorful conversations with bartenders and locals who, in between giving us inside restaurant tips, regale us with salty stories of politics, hurricanes and mardi gras parades. Then explore 10 tasty Mardi Gras cocktails. It’s certainly up for argument that New Orleans may (or may not) be the city where the cocktail was born or, at least, grew its ‘legs’.ĭiscover classic New Orleans drinks that you must drink at least once.
Local creations like the Sazerac, Grasshopper and Vieux Carré, as well as other classic cocktails, simply taste better in New Orleans. When we visit the Crescent City, one of our main motivations is to sample the drinks that New Orleans bartenders craft so well.
