A locals-only French Quarter dive that the tourist tide somehow never finds — dark, quiet, cheap, and all the more valuable for it. When the Quarter's noise and crowds become too much, this is the escape hatch: an unpretentious room where the regulars nurse cold cheap ones and nobody is performing for anybody. It is best when it is raining outside and the rest of the neighborhood is miserable, which is when its quiet feels like a small secret. Cash only, which is part of how it stays the way it is.
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French Quarter, New Orleans
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Whatever's cheap and cold. This is a prices bar, not a cocktail bar.
Anytime you need to escape the chaos of the Quarter. Best when it's raining outside.
True locals' Quarter spot - the tourists don't find this one. Dark, quiet, unpretentious. Cash only.