St. Roch Tavern - New Orleans

This is a cute neighborhood bar with billiards, a lending library, Columbian food, cheap drinks, live music, and even haircuts on Tuesday nights.

Lovely little spot in the 7th ward Healthy options and everything I tried was A1 10/10

I have no problem with dive bars. So let 's first get that out of the way. My home bars are International, Rudy 's and Reif 's. Stickers on the mirror, graffiti on the bathroom floor, cash only ****. No the fact that St. Roch is a dive is not the problem. It 's the staff. This was the first bar I went to when we landed. Yes, we are tourist. No, we weren 't in floppy hats, cargo pants, and sock/sandals. (Anyway, we went back later that week and did see regulars dressed like this. We were dressed normal, ordered beers, and tipped and the bartender was looking at us like we came into her house and tried to rob her. Half of the taps were out and she got annoyed that we were ordering them. (Sorry, we 're not mind readers? Cross it out or put a cup on the tap. We had one drink and felt so unwelcomed, we just bounced. We ended up at another bar and had a great time. Told them our experience at St Roch and everyone was like, Oh yeah. They 're known for being assholes around here. We ended up there a few days later to give it another shot. It was karaoke night. Once again, the bartender was acting as if we were bothering her. We put our names up for karaoke and the instructions were unclear. You sign up and then email the karaoke person a link to your video and then she puts it on.... Okay, first of all. You 're a karaoke MC why am I doing your job for you? You literally have 2 things to do. Announce who is coming up next, and put up the songs. Instead she ignored us when we asked for help, and skipped us in line for ages. During this time, my partner got the 15 dollar haircut and beer deal. (One star just for the barber, she was great! She told us the lowdown, apparently, the karaoke MC invites all of her theatre camp friends for open MC and ignores newcomers. It happens regularly. She asked the karaoke MC if she could do us a favour and push it back in the queue. And then we started seeing her same regulars up there 2/3 times without us going on once lmao. By this point it was three hours. The karaoke MC has the audacity to say, I 'm open to bribes!!! Like?? Isn 't this your job? We had some chats with regulars outside, who are much nicer than the staff and confirmed this is a regular occurence and it 's fucked up. I spent the last two weeks bar crawling around every bar in the hood. This was the only place that treated us like trash. I suspect they get off and being jerks to people. We had a word directly to the MC, asking her to put on our song (THREE TIMES and she kept saying, oh yeah you 're next. We weren 't next all three times. And she kept smirking about it. Karaoke is about community not totting your theatre kids dream of broadway with the 3rd rendition of Memories in one night. Skip this bar and go elsewhere. Also, everyone keeps mentioning the gutter punks. Yeah they 're still there in 2021. But at least they 're nicer than the staff.

This place is a most unique bar. I place where you really wanna sit and people gaze. A man with no legs carried his wheelchair into the bar, and proceeded to play the slots in the back. Like a champion with no help, and no one would notice besides myself, because 4 years in, I am still a tourist. They also have sit down old school pac man which is pretty bad ass. 5 dollar burgers, trivia nights , and a bingo night. This is the most random of drives I've been to thus far in New Orleans. Oh yes, on Tuesdays you can also get your hair cut here with a beer for 15 bucks. Cheap booze, good food, and fantastic company. It's one of the best bars in all the land. I promise you need to check it out, if you enjoy people from all backgrounds. And the decor at the bar is fantastic. 5 stars indeed.

I bought a house around the corner from the St. Roch Tavern a couple of years ago. Always a friendly and diverse crowd. $20 haircut is very cool. Folks singing Karaoke while you get your hair cut is fun! Getting a PBR on top of that is more fun. But the Piece de Resistance is the Country Music Monday! Lots of folks to dance with. Great service great prices. Did I mention Country Music Mondays?