Entertainment in New Orleans

Entertainment in New Orleans - Things to see and do in New Orleans

Happy Hour at the Ambassador Hotel (4-7 everyday)

Free New Orleans Travel Guide mailed to you!

Cook up some Louisiana seafood recipes... Jambalaya, Crawfish Pie, File Gumbo

Answer New Orleans’ hardest question: Where to eat?

Reserve a hotel room in New Orleans

Gotta try a Cajun Kringle! Or a traditional Mardi Gras King Cake!

Enjoy Sunday brunch in the French Quarter featuring traditional New Orleans cuisine and live Jazz

Bright lights, money, and va-va-voom at Harrah’s Casino downtown

Buy Some Beads

French Quarter Festival (April 12-14)

Visit famous New Orleans restaurants, meet the chefs, tour their kitchens, and have a special VIP tasting menu meal

Louisiana Swamp Festival (mid-October)

Choose meals wisely with an Ambassador Restaurant Guide

Louisiana Renaissance Festival (November)

Enjoy Springtime in the Big Easy!

Coffee and Beignets at Cafe Du Monde

REALLY BIG MOVIES at the Imax Theater!

Audubon Zoo

Jazz’n the Vines at Ponchartrain Vineyards (May-October)

Immortalize your trip with a tattoo

Spend a lazy afternoon browsing art and antiques on Royal and Magazine Streets

Join music history with a night at Tipitina’s

Frolic on Bourbon Street

See the Mardi Gras floats being constructed

See the 2003 BCS National Football Championship at the Sugar Bowl

Walking tour of the Garden District

Enjoy New Orleans’ museums

Ride the rides at Jazzland theme park

Visit the National D-Day Museum

See Bourbon Street on
our live webcam! s

Visit a Louisiana state park

Bayou Segnette State Park (30 minutes away)

Get crawfish, shrimp, or alligator shipped by mail

Tour the French Quarter’s 1850 House, home of Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba

Tour cemeteries, vampires, and voodoo sites

Hermann-Grima and Gallier Houses

Visit the pushcarts and shops at the Riverwalk

Tour the gardens of the historic Longue Vue House

Read Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles

Herbs, leeches, and medicinal “gris gris” at the Pharmacy Museum in the French Quarter

History of culture and race in America at the Amistad Research Center

Cruise to site of the Battle of New Orleans

New Orleans Fire Department Museum

Find a flight to New Orleans now

Children play at Rivertown in Kenner

View a map of the French Quarter

Preview historic houses in the Garden District

Bars

Pat O'Brien's
718 St Peter St, New Orleans, LA
(504) 525-4823

Lucy's Retired Surfer's Restaurant & Bar
701 Tchoupitoulas St, New Orleans, LA
(504) 523-8995

Le Chat Noir
715 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA
(504) 581-5812

Storyland Children’s Fairy Tale Park (in City Park)

Confederate Civil War Museum

Late night grub at the Camellia Grill on Carrollton Street

Louisiana Children’s Museum (at 420 Julia Street)

Musee Conti Historical Wax Museum

Horse racing at the New Orleans Fairgrounds (Nov.-March)

Historic Voodoo Museum

Tour the only U.S. Mint that printed money for both the U.S. and the Confederacy

Explore the history of Jazz

Visit the Planetarium at the Audubon Nature Center

Shop, eat, and drink at Jax Brewery

A haunted evening tour of the French Quarter

Donna’s for live Jazz and BBQ

Shake yo thang at The Funky Butt

Aquarium of the Americas

Tour the French Quarter, Garden District, cemeteries, and plantations

Historic walking tour of the French Quarter

Coupons for tours, restaurants, Rental Cars, lodging, museums, fishing trips and more!

Cheeseburgers at Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville

Jazz Fest 2003 (April 26-May 5)

Concerts at the House of Blues

Coffee with chicory – a unique taste of New Orleans

Paddleboat cruise on the Mississippi

Voodoo Music Festival (around Halloween)

Ride a streetcar along St. Charles Avenue’s oak trees

Essence Festival (July)

Art exhibits at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC)

Research historic archives at the Historic New Orleans Collection

View a map of the New Orleans area

Golf at Bayou Oaks (inside City Park)

Listen to the best jazz radio station in the world!

Nightly Jazz at Preservation Hall

Have a tour (and a Hurricane!) at Pat O’Brien’s

Listen to native son Kermit Ruffins and the Barbeque Swingers!

Ellis Marsalis and others at Snug Harbor

Exchange recipes with Arnaud’s Chef Gaetano "Tommy" DiGiovanni

See priceless Mardi Gras memorabilia in the museum at Arnaud’s

Buy a Commander’s Palace Cook Book

Rock n Bowl at Mid-City Lanes

See a concert or musical at the gorgeous Saenger Theatre

Romantic dinner at Bella Luna restaurant, overlooking the Mississippi

Botanical Gardens in City Park

Catch a Zephyrs minor league baseball game (April-September)

“Bananas Foster” at Brennan’s

Southern Decadence Festival (September)

Tour an Antebellum Plantation

Go buck-wily on Bourbon Street!

Tour Anne Rice’s orphanage and doll collection

Charter a fishing boat with your buddies

Visit alligators on a Swamp Tour

Tour antebellum Garden District homes with a Mint Julep

Find a chess partner in New Orlean

Free guidebook and map from Louisiana Dept. of Tourism

Take a nature walk with the Louisiana State Park Service

Dance Clubs

Ampersand
1100 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA
(504) 587-3737

735 Nightclub & Bar
735 Bourbon St., New Orleans, LA
(504) 581-6740

Bourbon Pub
801 Bourbon St, New Orleans, LA
(504) 529-2107

Le Chat Noir
715 St Charles Ave New Orleans LA (504) 581-5812