Just moved to New Orleans, hadn’t been a whole week, looking for an urban UPSCALE night club?
Have only been in New Orleans (acually Metarie) for a couple of days. I’m getting board looking at TV at night, I’m looking for a night spot of an early 30’s upscale urban person. What’s a good place?
Sounds like you may need to keep movin on. New Orleans is the Big Easy, not the Big Pretentious. This isn’t Atlanta (thankfully). And all those places listed in the other post are nice, but they are purely "Butsie" (uptown, white, pretentious) hangouts, not at all urban. Maybe try Donna’s on St. Ann and Rampart, or Loraine’s on St. Claude. Really, the best spot for what you are looking for would be either Snug Harbor, Cafe Basil or the Blue Nile on Frenchman Street in the Faubourg (neighborhood) Marigny (just next to the French Quarter – please don’t say French Quater"s" – or, New Or-"leens," for that matter). New Orleans invested funk and still is. (The Funky Butt Saloon was a pre 1900 place where jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden played. The word "funky’ is African via Congo Square here in New Orleans and means "deliciously good.") Upscale is viewed as being in bad taste and very, "out-of-town." Just get funky, hang out, have fun and enjoy the Big Easy.
January 16th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Columns Hotel Bar, The Republic, Tommys Wine Bar, Whiskey Blue, Absinthe House, Bombay club, Delachaise, Bridge Lounge, Rendezvous on magazine…
Go eat at one and hampson and sit at the bar and talk to the bartender.
http://www.one-sl.com/
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January 16th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Sounds like you may need to keep movin on. New Orleans is the Big Easy, not the Big Pretentious. This isn’t Atlanta (thankfully). And all those places listed in the other post are nice, but they are purely "Butsie" (uptown, white, pretentious) hangouts, not at all urban. Maybe try Donna’s on St. Ann and Rampart, or Loraine’s on St. Claude. Really, the best spot for what you are looking for would be either Snug Harbor, Cafe Basil or the Blue Nile on Frenchman Street in the Faubourg (neighborhood) Marigny (just next to the French Quarter – please don’t say French Quater"s" – or, New Or-"leens," for that matter). New Orleans invested funk and still is. (The Funky Butt Saloon was a pre 1900 place where jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden played. The word "funky’ is African via Congo Square here in New Orleans and means "deliciously good.") Upscale is viewed as being in bad taste and very, "out-of-town." Just get funky, hang out, have fun and enjoy the Big Easy.
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This is New Orleans; voodoo, Mardi Gras and all that jazz.
January 16th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Drive down to the Quarter, park your car on Decatur Street by the river and start walking around in my neighborhood, the Quarter. In the Quarter you can’t throw a stick without hitting a bar, you can walk around and see a bunch of night-spots without driving around. The hotel bars have very ‘upscale urban’ crowds for the most part, until mardis gras time and then all hell breaks loose.
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