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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.
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.
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
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