CAROUSEL PIANO BAR & LOUNGE

HOTEL MONTELEONE, NEW ORLEANS

The Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge is the only revolving bar in New Orleans.

The bar is inside the Hotel Monteleone and overlooks Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Installed in 1949, the 25-seat circular bar turns on 2,000 large steel rollers, powered by a 1⁄4-horsepower motor.

The bar rotates at a rate of one revolution every 15 minutes.

Wheelchair access to the Monteleone and its famous bar is via the hotel garage on Iberville Street.

The carousel itself is not wheelchair accessible.

However, tables right next to it are, so a disabled guest can easily enjoy the atmosphere, stiff drinks and colorful animal prints on the seat backs of the rotating bar.

In addition to the rotating bar, an adjoining room includes booths and tables with live entertainment offered nightly.

Hotel Monteleone was a favorite of many Southern authors.

References to the Hotel Monteleone and its Carousel Bar are included in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo and Orpheus Descending, Rebecca Wells' Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Little Altars Everywhere, Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers, Richard Ford's A Piece of My Heart, Eudora Welty's A Curtain of Green, Gerald Clarke's Capote: A Biography; Erle Stanley Gardner's Owls Don't Blink (written under the pen name A.A. Fair), Ernest Hemingway's "Night Before Battle" (published in The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway), and Harry Stephen Keeler's The Voice of the Seven Sparrows.






Hemingway, Williams, and William Faulkner always stayed at Hotel Monteleone while staying in New Orleans.

The 600-room Hotel Monteleone is the only high rise building in the interior French Quarter.

It remains one of few longstanding, family-owned hotels in the nation.

214 Royal Street.

(504) 523-3341

www.hotelmonteleone.com 

MUSSO AND FRANK GRILL -- PART 4

A HOLLYWOOD CLASSIC FOR NEARLY A CENTURY

Today, J.P. Amateau is only the third executive chef in Musso's history.

He now proudly serves the original Fettucine Alfredo -- as prepared for Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford -- as a regular menu item.

The steaks are many and reasonably priced considering Musso and Frank's fabled location and nearly century of history.

For a throwback, go for the Welsh Rarebit.

For dessert, you can't miss with a towering hunk of New York Style Cheesecake or a warm boysenberry pie.

Musso and Frank Grill is located at 6667 Hollywood Blvd.  (just east of Hollywood & Highland, a few short blocks from the Kodak and Grauman's Chinese theaters.

For reservations, call (323) 467-7788.

www.mussoandfrank.com

 

MUSSO AND FRANK GRILL -- PART 3

A HOLLYWOOD CLASSIC FOR NEARLY A CENTURY

The Fettucine Alfredo at Musso and Frank has a great Tinseltown story behind its original recipe.

Silent film stars Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were frequent guests at Musso’s.

While on their honeymoon in Rome, they dined at Alfredo’s restaurant and after tasting the Fettucine Alfredo, they begged Alfredo for the recipe.

He declined them.

The next night the newlyweds again dined at Alfredo’s and presented a golden fork and spoon to Alfredo.

This time they got the recipe and brought it back to Hollywood.

They asked Musso’s chef, Jean Rue, to make the dish.

Rue was a brilliant French chef who manned Musso's 

kitchen for more than half a century.

He often prepared it specially for the famous couple, but the dish was never added to the menu.

Musso and Frank review continues tomorrow, November 4