Happy Hours in New Orleans, Louisiana

The clock is the strictest thing about New Orleans happy hour. Two-thirds of the listed windows here open at exactly 4 PM, a tighter consensus than almost anywhere else in the South, so arriving at 3 buys you nothing at all. What the city does give you is length. Barrel Proof on Magazine Street lists a $5 boilermaker from 4 PM to 1 AM, every day. Beachbum Berry's Latitude 29 on North Peters lists $3.75 doubles until 10, and 11 on weekends. Dovetail Bar on North Rampart runs 3 to 11 Sunday through Thursday.

Magazine Street is the densest corridor by a distance, roughly thirty listings running from the Lower Garden District through Uptown. The Central Business District takes Poydras, Baronne and Tchoupitoulas, the Quarter clusters on Chartres, Bienville and Iberville, and Uptown splits between Freret and Oak.

Bourbon Street prices for visitors and rarely discounts, so the useful entries are a few blocks off it. Chartres House lists $5 wells from 3 to 6. Batture Bistro on Iberville lists every beer at $5. Mid-City Yacht Club lists $3 domestic bottles from 11 to 5:30. Uptown, Ale on Oak and Oak & Ale sit two doors apart on the same block and both list $5 glasses of wine.

Weekend windows are scarce at roughly one listing in eleven, so plan the week around a Tuesday.