Food & Drink· 2000· French Quarter

Galatoire's Second Floor Bar

The downstairs of Galatoire’s on Bourbon Street is one of the most famous dining rooms in the South — no reservations, jacket required, white-tiled walls unchanged since 1905. The second-floor bar, added in 2000, serves the same menu in a room that accepts reservations, making Galatoire’s food accessible to visitors who can’t spend two hours in the Friday lunch line. The trout meunière amandine has been on the menu for 120 years. The cocktails are strong and the mirrors are everywhere.

Quick facts

·The downstairs dining room has been unchanged since 1905 — no reservations, jacket required, white-tiled walls.
·The trout meunière amandine has been on the menu for 120 years.
·The Friday lunch line is a New Orleans social ritual — regulars have waited two hours for a table for decades.
·The second-floor bar, added in 2000, accepts reservations and serves the same menu.
·Founded by Jean Galatoire, a French immigrant from Pau in the Pyrénées.
·Located at 209 Bourbon St, French Quarter. Jackets required downstairs. Reservations accepted upstairs only.