Step up to this clean and convivial horseshoe-shaped bar not just for raw seafood but also house specialty drinks (some listed as "new-fashioneds"!) and the rest of its creative and clever cocktail menu. To cocktail purists, such beverages as an orange cosmo might seem like blasphemy, but we enjoyed the chef's thoughtful introduction of seasonal fruits into concoctions such as a delicious blueberry mojito and pomegranate champagne. Naturally, they are deeply interested in bourbon (even if the street is named for the French royal family, not the liquor), whether straight up or in a frozen bourbon milk punch, and by the time you finish here, you might be, too.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's New Orleans 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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