Classic Creole Cocktail History

The yellow corner building on Decatur Street holds a second-story dining room where the city's first business lunch was supposedly served. In eighteen fifty-six, Guillaume Tujague opened this spot to feed the laborers and traders from the…

The Napoleon House carries a heavy, weathered yellow stucco facade that distinguishes it from the surrounding brick and ironwork. Nicholas Girod, a wealthy merchant and one-time mayor of New Orleans, built this home at the turn of the…

A cast iron balcony wraps around the second story of this narrow, two-story townhouse, shielding the ground floor where Louis Dufilho Junior lived and worked in the early eighteen hundreds. As America's first licensed pharmacist, Dufilho…

Antoine Peychaud operated his pharmacy at this corner in the eighteen thirties. He earned his reputation by mixing medicinal bitters into brandy for his neighbors, creating a drink that eventually became the Sazerac. The shop served as a…

The long, mahogany bar top inside Arnaud’s restaurant serves as the centerpiece of the French Seventy-Five Bar. It features a distinct curved shape that separates the bartenders from the crowd, a design choice made during the nineteen…

The Carousel Bar rotates on a floor of gears, pulling a circular canopy behind it at a rate of one revolution every fifteen minutes. This bar sits inside the Hotel Monteleone, where it replaced a traditional lobby lounge in nineteen…

The Sazerac House features a restored nineteen-hundreds facade with intricate iron balconies wrapping around the corner of Canal and Magazine streets. This building serves as a museum and distillery dedicated to the cocktail that shares…

The Sazerac Bar occupies a corner of the Roosevelt Hotel marked by a long, mahogany counter and murals painted by Paul Ninas in the nineteen thirties. It serves as the namesake of the city’s official cocktail, a mix of rye whiskey,…