- New Orleans;
Since 2002, visitors of New Orleans and locals can discover the city’s rich history and cocktail tradition by taking the New Orleans Original Cocktail Walking Tour, an initiative launched by Ann Rogers Tuennerman, the founder of Tales of the Cocktail, with Joe Gandusa, a retired history teacher originary from New Orleans. While walking you to some of the Big Easy’s historical bars and restaurants, Joe or one of the other guides deliver informative and fun facts about NOLA and the venues’ history and architecture as well as the city’s cocktail culture and history. Tour participants liked the stories Joe was
Back in 2002, a woman called Ann Rogers Tuennerman had the idea of launching a cocktail tour of New Orleans. She contacted the Gray Line Tour Company, a city tour specialist for guidance. She was then introduced to Joe Gendusa, a New Orleans native, retired history teacher. Together, in September 2002, they launched the New Orleans Original Cocktail Walking Tour of the city’s historical bars. To celebrate the tour’s first anniversary and as a form of “thank you” to the bartenders who’d hosted the tour, Ann decided to organize a small gathering of bartenders, industry experts and cocktail historians to
Chris McMillian is a living legend for bartenders visiting New Orleans. Following some kind of family tradition with his parents, grandparents and great-grand-parents all working in one trade or another of the spirits and hospitality industry, he’s been bartending for…well… let’s say forever. He’s also one of the founders of The Museum of the American Cocktail. After working in several of New Orleans’ best bars, he’s opened his very first own venue with his wife in February of this year: Revel. This is where my new friends from Tales of the Cocktail and I were headed for the first stop of our bar crawl
The cocktails at Cure are simply mind blowing or should I say palate blowing? I visited Cure on a Friday, by the end of Tales of the Cocktail week in New Orleans. If your Uber driver knows where to go and doesn’t get caught in traffic, it will take you about ten minutes to drive there from the French quarter. Cure is pretty trendy but the atmosphere was rather laid back with groups of friends, from their mid twenties to their late forties, enjoying dinner or drinks together. There were quite a few Tales of the Cocktail participants, easily recognizable