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New Orleans Map: Pals LoungePals Lounge Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

Address
949 N. Rendon St
Location Bayou St. John
Phone 504/488-PALS

Frommer's Review

This used to be a nondescript corner neighborhood bar called Yvonne's that was only open for a couple of hours in the afternoon. Now, well-heeled backers (including Rio Hackford, son of director Taylor) have turned it into a retro hipster bar, and are offering an alternative watering hole for the increasingly gentrified St. John's Bayou neighborhood. As compensation to the working-class clientele who lost their old hangout, it sells Pabst Blue Ribbon for a buck a can. Now you have vintage barflies mingling with the neighborhood bohos who come with their dogs or riding their bikes. It's too smoky for some, and it can be hard to find a seat. Then again, the place still flies below the tourist radar -- which is part of the reason Jude Law and Sean Penn went here to drink while in town shooting All the King's Men.

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