The Napoleon House

Although the Pimm's Cup is veddy British, Napoleon House popularized the drink in a setting reminiscent of Amsterdam's brown cafes. The French Quarter bar - which doesn't look like much from the outside - possesses a faded peeling beauty earned the old fashioned way - over the course of more than 200 years of history. The bar is named for the diminutive despot, who was offered asylum by the building's first occupant, Nicholas Girod, in 1821. Napoleon never made it, but the name stuck and the place has been a haunt for the literati and the besotted every since. Ralph Brennan took over ownership of the bar from the Impastato family in May of 2015.