Your Hurricane automatically comes with a $3 charge for the glass. The large, dueling-pianos lounge is fun (music starts at 6pm 2pm weekends) and locals populate the main bar up front, but when weather permits, the rambling, often boisterous tropical patio is the place to be. Pat O’s still makes a reliable, rowdy, friendly introduction to New Orleans.
and the fact that the Hurricane is kinda sickly sweet. The line can stretch down the street, despite the plethora of nearby drinking options. Naturally, this attracts tourists and collegians in droves. It’s served in signature hurricane-lamp–style glasses, or a 3-gallon magnum that’s taller than many small children and shared (one profoundly hopes) through long straws, while standing up.
The bar’s owners created the Hurricane’s rum-heavy formula during a 1940s whiskey shortage. ( 504/525-4823), is world-famous for the hefty, vivid red drink with the big-wind name.
