Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar
Candlelit eighteenth-century cottage bar where strangers gather round an old piano to sing along.
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Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar's guide in New Orleans starts with a simple observation: there is no light switch in this room, because most of the building has never been wired for electricity. Historians believe the cottage went up in the 1770s, built in a French colonial technique that makes it one of the oldest surviving structures in the French Quarter. You'll hear the local legend that privateer Jean Lafitte ran a smuggling front here, weighed against what property records actually show, and about a mid-century owner who quietly turned the place into a bohemian café. Grab a stool near the old piano and see who starts singing first.
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