This is my home for drinking out in NOLA. The cocktails are classic and the ingredients are fine and fresh. No corn syrup and artificial flavors here. The vibe is chill and kind of dingy, yet somehow classy and lounge-y. Cool bartenders that know their stuff and the music is on, edgy indie rock and alternative. I’ve heard the Pixies and Mission of Burma in here. My two favorite drinks are house-designed recipes. Frenchmen’s Dark and Stormy, Tonique’s take on a class ic, and the in-house invented Blanche Dubois, which I believe won a prize at Tales of the Cocktail. The Frenchmen’s Dark and Stormy is fantastic, with a homemade ginger base that is limey tart and has tons of ginger bite. Blanche is a lovely pink strawberry lemony thing with gin that somehow tastes like pink grapefruit even though it does not have any in it. Nary a soda gun in this place. Hang out here enough and you might meet a rock star or a Hollywood celeb…or not..the drinks and bartenders are rock star enough.