Carousel Bar & Lounge at the Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans.
Have you been to the newly remodeled Carousel Bar & Lounge? If not, here is a sneak peek of the expansion the Hotel Monteleone did to the Carousel Bar & Lounge in 2012.
Carousel Bar & Lounge at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, LA.
Carousel Bar & Lounge at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, LA.
Carousel Bar & Lounge at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, LA.
Carousel Bar & Lounge at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, LA.
Marvin Allen with a Vieux Carre – Carousel Bar & Lounge at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, LA.
Carousel Bar & Lounge at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, LA.
Carousel Bar & Lounge at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, LA.
Vieux Carre Cocktail
This drink was invented in 1938 by Walter Bergeron, the head bartender at the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans, and is named after the French term for what we call “The French Quarter” … le Vieux Carré (“Old Square”).
- 1 ounce rye whiskey
- 1 ounce Cognac
- 1 ounce sweet vermouth
- 1 teaspoon Bénédictine D.O.M.
- 2 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
- 2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Mix all ingredients in a double Old Fashioned glass over ice; stir. (Courtesy of Gumbopages.com)
Carousel Bar & Lounge at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, LA.
Carousel Bar & Lounge at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, LA.
Carousel Bar & Lounge at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, LA.
Carousel Bar & Lounge at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, LA
Miguel Solorzano Photography 
Love the carousel top over the bar! The bar chairs look pretty neat too…I was almost expecting the chairs to be animals from a carousel, and they almost made that happen with the chair backs. I guess after a couple of Vieux Carre the carousel might seem to be spinning around.