How to Drink at the New Orleans Carousel Bar

Writers such as Ernest Hemingway helped bring New Orleans' Carousel Bar world class fame. The Carousel Bar has a vivid circus motif, and the customers are just as colorful. The Carousel Bar is the center of a carousel and the stools revolve around the bar itself so drinking there is a delight.

Instructions

1. Visit New Orleans' Carousel Bar at the Monteleone Hotel, 214 Royal Street in the French Quarter. The bar is famous and any taxi driver should be familiar with it.

2. Go to the back of the bar to enjoy some music. There is a piano bar and some booths for privacy. Order a Sazerac and relax with some fine music.

3. Pull up a stool at the namesake carousel bar. The revolving bar is a lot of fun. Ask the bartender to make the house special Vieux Carré. This cocktail, served on the rocks, has equal parts of rye, cognac and vermouth and a few special ingredients.

4. Enjoy a night out bar hopping in New Orleans. End the night at the Carousel Bar. The French Quarter has many elegant watering holes and the Carousel is a well-known retro classic bar.

5. Follow in the footsteps of literary notables like Hemingway and hit all the French Quarter bars featured in books. Many writers have used New Orleans' French Quarter as a setting, and the Carousel Bar is one of the finest bars in the city and in literature.

Resources

• Hotel Monteleone
• New Orleans Online
• Gumbo Pages