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The famed Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop was built between 1722 and 1732 by Nicolas Touze, making it the oldest bar in New Orleans. Over the years Lafitte’s has been owned by several different people, including the well-known privateer/pirate Jean Lafitte and his brother Pierre.
The oldest bar in New Orleans — built between 1722 and 1732 — has swashbuckling origins. Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar is in the old brick building where famed pirate, turned New Orleans...
That bar, New Orleaners say as fact, is the oldest bar in the U.S.. (It's disputed whether Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is the oldest bar in the U.S., or the oldest structure used as...
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. There are a couple of "maybe's" here but it depends on how you define bars.
Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop Bar is the oldest in New Orleans and the country, having been open since the early 1700s. The ambient bar transports guests from modern-day bar-hopping to when the pirate Jean Lafitte ruled the smuggling business.
At the dawn of Prohibition there were three world-famous bars in New Orleans: Henry Ramos’s Stag Café, Chris O’Reilly’s Sazerac House and Pierre Cazebonne’s Old Absinthe House, perhaps...
Discover Jean Lafitte's Old Absinthe House in New Orleans, Louisiana: A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing...
Opened: Building 1791, bar 1930s New Orleans has invented many celebrated cocktails, among them the Grasshopper (see above), the Ramos Fizz, the Brandy Crusta, the Sazerac, and the Vieux Carre.
Current owners claim it to be the oldest structure used as a bar in the United States, and say Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop was built between 1722 and 1732 and purportedly used by privateers...
Napoleon House, Tujague’s, Henry’s Uptown Bar, the Old Absinthe House,and Lafitte’s Blacksmith Bar are nightlife establishments in New Orleans that lead any visitor to be in the presence of celebrated history.