Previously bars were more like cafes in diners-sit down affairs. It was the first stand-up bar in the city. In 1912 the family who owned Tujague’s bought another local restaurant and moved to its present location a few blocks off of Bourbon Street where it’s remained ever since. They served a set seven course meal and were apparently pretty darned good at it, garnering a reputation for great cuisine. Tujague’s was founded as a restaurant by Guillaume and Marie Abadie Tujague who arrived not long before 1856 from France. It’s a fun place to visit on Bourbon Street and while thoroughly a tourist destination it’s still fun and more preferable to the dozens of neon-lit clubs you’ll pass to get here.Ĩ23 Decatur St, New Orleans, LA 70116 (504) 525-8676 It’s also reportedly haunted by Jean Laffite himself as well as a sobbing woman upstairs.
The old bar is the only thing lit by anything other than candle light, which is how they illuminate the rest of the rooms.ĭrink offerings here range from beer on tap to the New Orleans staple, the Sazerac. The fireplace, especially suited for a blacksmith, stands solidly at the front entrance of the place. There has also reportedly been a bar in the building since it opened, which would make it the oldest bar in the city. Jean Laffite, the notorious New Orleans pirate, was said to have owned this building and to have used it as a blacksmith shop as a front for his nefarious deeds. Much of its history is legend and much more is rumor, but most of it is accepted without question-though little evidence can be found for really any of it. The building that houses what’s now called Jean Laffite’s Blacksmith Shop is the oldest in the city, built approximately in 1761. In any case we present what we think are the five oldest bars in New Orleans. Tujague's, as you'll read later, has real history at its bar. But Antoine's is almost completely known as a restaurant, in fact that's what they want to be known as.Īrnaud's, however, has some great history in it's bars and has had the Richelieu bar since the beginning. For example, Antoine's is not here though Arnaud's and Tujague's are. There are a couple of "maybe's" here but it depends on how you define bars. The Crescent City is awash with great bars, saloons and dives to visit, but we've compiled a list of what we think are the oldest.
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