New Orleans Original Cocktail Walking Tour: Sip the Sazerac and Jazz Through the French Quarter

A late-afternoon sun slides low over the Mississippi, turning the river into a strip of burnished copper as your group gathers at the Gray Line Lighthouse on the Steamboat NATCHEZ dock. The city hums—streetcars clack, a trumpet threads a single phrase from a nearby bar, and the French Quarter’s honey‑colored facades seem to lean in, eager to tell their stories. This is less a pub crawl than a guided excavation of New Orleans’ drinking culture: three classic cocktails, four stops, and roughly two and a half hours to move from the riverfront through alleys that smell faintly of bread and citrus.