The Wooden Bar at Coquette is great for mixing and mingling with friends over creative cocktails -- photo from Coquette
Coquette is a wonderful restaurant. Owners Mike Stoltzfus and Lillian Hubbard have carved out a niche for themselves by creating a true neighborhood bistro serving delicious food on a creative and intelligent bill of fare.
The added bonus at Coquette is the bar. It’s one of those great and grand wooden things that harkens back to the turn of the 20th century. It’s not only the beauty of the bar that is impressive, it’s what the bartenders mix and pour.
Coquette has a specialty cocktail menu that is well worth exploring. They have house infusions that feature refreshing Vodka infused with lemon, orange, strawberry, blood orange, or vanilla bean; spicy Tequila infused with jalapeño; warm and wicked Bourbon infused with Benton’s Bacon and sexy Brandy infused with fig.
Cocktail Specials at Coquette - photo by Valorie Hart
You could stop by every night of the week and sample a new cocktail. In fact, every Wednesday Coquette runs a wine special ($5.00 a glass) and on Thursdays the specially priced cocktail-of-the-day is offered.
It is so fun to sit at the elegant bar and sip and sample. Order up a couple of appetizers to complete the tasting experience.
Coquette is a pretty and romantic space without being corny, and it is a great date night spot. A cocktail date would be fabulous at the Coquette bar.
The cocktails have intriguing names: Satan’s Whiskers, French 75, The Bailout, Belle Fleur, The Jackson, Touch of Evil, The Drake, and they mix a killer and classic Sazerac.
Figs and goat cheese - photo from Coquette
Pair a cocktail or glass of wine with a small plate like figs and goat cheese, or order a large plate like the excellent flat iron steak.
The bartenders at Coquette are poetry in motion. Marcy Blum, an industry food and wine expert (she’s been a judge on Bravo’s Top Chef), says that the mixologists at Coquette are among the best she’s ever seen, and the cocktails among the most inventive and delicious she’s ever tasted.
So grab your sweetie and head to Magazine Street to belly up to the bar at Coquette. Cheers!
Until next time, I am the Visual Vamp, and Magazine Street is my beat.
Coquette
2800 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA
(504) 265-0421
