With every visit there, we find new places to enjoy wine and cocktails. Here are some of those New Orleans spots you might want check out, over Super Bowl weekend and beyond:. Bacchanal Wine. A well-established mainstay of the Bywater neighborhood, this wine shop with a great backyard is your best bet for having excellent wine and catching some live music. You can purchase bottles as well as cheeses and charcuterie inside, then find a space outside to settle in for hours of sipping and snacking.
The website offers a monthly calendar of nearly nightly live music, with afternoon performances on Fridays and Saturdays. This restaurant quickly has become a mandatory stop on our annual visits to the Big Easy. Mamou, which opened in the lower French Quarter in , is a tiny, incredibly charming spot with excellent French food and hospitality.
The list is comfortable in size and reasonably priced, for the quality. Rampart St. Patron Saint. This new, well-curated wine shop features classic and offbeat wines, and also offers a list of rotating pours in an airy, inviting space. In addition, guests can pick a bottle from the retail wall to enjoy in the shop, ideally with a huge slice from the adjoining pizza shop. Really Really Nice Wines. This is a small but mighty natural wine shop with a delightfully casual, down-to-earth approach to enjoying and learning about wine.
It also has a tiny bar where you can enjoy a glass and snacks. On our most recent visit, we took their frozen orange wine to go from the bar because, New Orleans and sipped on this delicious, frosty concoction as we enjoyed the lovely Garden District. Tell Me Bar. The team at this sexy natural wine spot for late-nighters is as wine-knowledgeable as they are cool. Search their social media for details on DJ nights and food pop-ups, but you always can get a great tinned fish snack, and happy-hour specials are available until 6 p.
Thomas St. This place helped relaunch the craft cocktail movement in New Orleans and has become an anchor for bustling Freret Street in the Uptown neighborhood. An oasis on beautiful but tourist-heavy Jackson Square, this spot is great for a well-executed cocktail and a tray of raw oysters.
