Post #5676 by Tiki-bot on Mon, Aug 12, 2002 6:20 PM

Oh man! What memories! I actually DID die and was propped up at the end of the bar in the Napolean House! Actually I stayed right next door and visited there nightly on my way out on the town, so I felt like a permanent fixture. And the piano bar in the back at Lafitte Blacksmith's is much fun.

For a city so renowned for it's drinking, there are surprisingly few places to get a "good" drink. The m. o. there seems to be "fill the kids full of goopy hurricanes and hose the streets down in the morning." Honestly, after 3 or 4 weeks of that and I was bored :wink:

As for P o'B's, the fire fountain in the courtyard is neat-o. And I can't believe I actually have been to the Dungeon, too, at Siggraph in '96. Ruder security people you will find nowhere (and WE were well-behaved).

Wish I had someplace to recommend visiting while there, but I usually stayed out in the Garden District and rarely made it to Bourbon Street (which can be visited for a little as ten minutes and you don't really need to go back, except for more bad drinks and strip clubs, if that's your poisen). I had friends who were expert bartenders and made me drinks no bar could touch, so I rarely bothered.

Oh wait, for an interesting experience, go to The Alibi around 4am when most of the bars & strip clubs close - there's quite an "interesting" influx of customers and the place hops til about 8am! You can get bad food and drink there all night.

Good luck with the heat!