New Orleans has 7 hotel bars in the BarMagazine directory, and Beachbum Berry's Latitude 29 leads the pack. The 6 below are the ones we would send you to first. This guide covers the hotel bars specifically; the full New Orleans picture, all 24 bars of it, lives on the city page. Each listing is verified, with the address, opening hours and what to order.
Jeff "Beachbum" Berry, cocktail historian and author of the definitive tiki reference library, opened this full-service tiki restaurant and bar at the Bienville House Hotel in November 2014. Esquire named it among America's Best Bars within five months. At No. 80 on North America's 50 Best extended list, the program resurrects lost recipes from Berry's decades of research alongside original creations and Chef Joel White's Hawaiian-Asian-Southern fusion menu. Latitude 29 treats tiki history with the rigour of a museum and the hospitality of a bar. Berry wrote the books; now he pours them.
The Carousel Bar & Lounge at the Hotel Monteleone is New Orleans' rotating bar, spinning since 1949 and completing a full turn every fifteen minutes for a slowly moving view of the French Quarter. There is live music seven nights a week, and the room stands among the most iconic drinking destinations in the city.
Bar Director Abigail Gullo, an internationally recognized bartender, runs a vodou-inspired program at the International House Hotel where divine spirits inform both the aesthetic and the menu. European romance, Caribbean influence, and African design elements converge beneath a hand-crafted ceiling by lighting designer Peter Manukyan. The cocktail list includes zero-alcohol options that carry the same creative weight as their spirited counterparts. Loa treats the spiritual tradition that inspires its name with respect rather than appropriation, and the drinks reflect that care.
The Chandelier Bar occupies the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel New Orleans, under a namesake chandelier built from fifteen thousand hand-strung Bohemian crystals. Its list celebrates the city's cocktail history with renditions of the Sazerac, French 75 and Brandy Crusta alongside house builds, and guests can book classes on the classics.
The Elysian Bar sits inside Hotel Peter and Paul in the Marigny, a boutique hotel converted from a former church, schoolhouse, rectory and convent a few blocks from Frenchmen Street. It works as restaurant, bar and cafe at once, and its name plays on both Elysian Fields as paradise and the avenue that divides the neighborhood.
The Sazerac Bar is a restored landmark inside The Roosevelt New Orleans, with an African walnut bar and murals by Paul Ninas on its walls. It serves the Sazerac, which the hotel calls the official cocktail of New Orleans, in a house version built on Sazerac Rye, Peychaud's Bitters and Herbsaint, alongside Coffee House and Cognac variants.
These are the hotel bars specifically. The full New Orleans guide ranks the best bars of every style, and the directory lists all 24 with a map and filters.
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