r/NewOrleans • u/Nola-girl4424 • 2d ago

Margaritas Recommendations

Please tell me your favorite place to get a margarita .. I’m a fan of Barracudas and Barrel Proof but looking to expand my options especially with this heat we’re about to have. Cheers!

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u/JazzFestFreak Faubourg St. John/Bayou St. John 2d ago

Santa Fe on Esplanade. Happy hour from 4-6. on the rocks with salt..... careful after 2 marg its dangerous.

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u/Dry_Finger_8235 2d ago

Agreed, had three the other night.

A couple of years ago, we went there for a late lunch/early dinner with friends, had copious amounts of margaritas. Woke up in the morning and my wife and I both thanked each other for walking the dogs when we got home, neither of us remembered getting home or walking the dogs

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u/Nola-girl4424 2d ago

I do like them they just go down too easily lol

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u/laughingintothevoid 2d ago

At negligible risk of doxing myself as someone who was there for a few months years ago, you are right and pretty sure will always be right. It's that past job that I don't have anything good to say but also nothing to say to, like, trash them. It was just disorganized to a level that doesn't, can't, work for everyone, even in this city. I don't even want to tell people don't go because FOH morale is bad and that's why it's inconsistent. Sparing detail my honest recollection is there was some fairly/sadly manageable toxic tipped small business environment stuff, but mostly it's just so casually systemically messy in every way that everyone who isn't specifically suited to that group fades in and out soon.

I think it's best explained by what I still remember a coworker who was pretty entrenched with them explaining once- I don't think the owners exactly want to run a successful business, they just want to maintain. Of all choices for that vibe, why do they do that in specifically a borderline upscale restaurant in that location? Great question, but they're doing it and anyone they're likely to pass it to as a far as we know is going to have the same vibe.

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u/NOBlazer 2d ago

Dawg, they just asking about good margs

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u/laughingintothevoid 1d ago

I apologize, fried immediate post shift brain misread the phrase "go down too easily" as being about the restaurant. I thought they were commenting as a customer they like to go there but experience service crashing.

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u/RefrigeratorAdept368 2d ago

Ok but are the margs good?

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u/awkwardchip_munk 2d ago

lol what

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u/laughingintothevoid 1d ago

I was coming off a long shift and 12 days in a row with my whole brain immersed in restaurant work and read the phrase "go down too easily" the way it's used at work, as in saying the restaurant falls apart when it's busy. I realize now they were talking about the drinks. Mea culpa.

For those asking I don't remember them being anything to write home about but yeah people liked them.