New Orleans, LA

[Thomas27]

Any recommendations for NOLA? Guys, places to meet, etc.

 

Thanks

[+ Steve yabsley]

Corner Pocket, Raw Hide, Eagle are all worth a visit imho......depending on your tastes maybe worth hanging out.

[+ TheKnobGobbler]

The Phoenix Bar in New Orleans is for all intents and purposes an Eagle. It's located outside the French Quarter on Elysian Fields, and it caters to a similar crowd of leather/denim wearers and their admirers. There's a nice big main bar at the entrance, a fetish shop, a patio, and a small bar upstairs that frequently doubles as an impromptu fuck room.

 

The Corner Pocket is a fun male "strip" club that has lots of gay4pay hustler types and draws a mostly older crowd who are there to shove sweaty dollar bills back into the dancers' crevices. It's toward the back of the Quarter on Burgundy, a few blocks away from the rest of the gay bars. (Be on your guard here, as more than one wallet has gone amiss when unwary customers were distracted. Best to keep cash/ID/cards in front pockets and be mindful of who goes near there. Also, don't get too intoxicated that you let down your guard outside the club, as there are always opportunists lurking and waiting for drunk tourists to prey on. Keep some wit about you.)

 

The 700 Club is one of my fav neighborhood bars, and it's just a couple of blocks over from CP on the corner of Burgundy @ Saint Peter. During holiday & big event weekends there are usually some hot go-go boys atop the bar here, too. But it's always a good place to stop in, check your bearings, and refuel on some good pub food from their kitchen.

 

Rawhide is a wonderfully seedy leather bar on Saint Ann at Burgundy that has pool tables and an infamous dark back room where all kinds of shenanigans go on. Very cruisy at all hours of the day and night. (But with dark corners comes the advice from about about wallets & valuables.)

 

A block up Saint Ann from Rawhide is Good Friends Bar, a fun place if it's not overcrowded. Upstairs is usually more cruisy than the open area downstairs, and there's good views up and down the fruit loop from the balcony here.

 

There are almost always go-go boys atop the bar at Oz and The Bourbon Pub, the two biggest bars on Bourbon St (@ Saint Ann). It's good people watching from either of their balconies looking down onto the street crowd where you'll inevitably see straight girls dragging their confused looking boyfriends through the intersection into a sea of rainbow flags and shirtless men, followed shortly afterward by the newly informed boyfriend dragging the girlfriend right back toward the safety of the straight end.

 

Further down Bourbon St where it becomes mostly residential and quite a bit darker, there's Cafe Lafitte In Exile, which used to be a great place to get your dick wet or your ass passed around the pool table upstairs, but it's gotten a bit tame in recent years. Still, worth checking out. It's the furthest of all the Quarter bars in that direction, and is a hefty walk to get from here all the way to the other end of the Quarter where Corner Pocket is, so you might consider a pedicab.

 

[+ Just Sayin]

great summary, @TheKnobGobbler ; very helpful to NOLA visitors!

[cany10011]

Thank you for the great recommendations I'll be there next weekend for the French Quarter festival with some friends. Looking forward to exploring the restaurants, boys, and city

[cany10011]

Is it safe to walk from Corner Pocket to 700 Club? I've been to NOLA before and the Corner Pocket. Thought I would start at Laffite in Exile and walk down Bourbon and up to Corner Pocket. But not sure how safe the street is to 700 Club as I was already a little afraid walking up to Corner Pocket as the streets are quite dark there.

[+ TheKnobGobbler]

Is it safe to walk from Corner Pocket to 700 Club? I've been to NOLA before and the Corner Pocket. Thought I would start at Laffite in Exile and walk down Bourbon and up to Corner Pocket. But not sure how safe the street is to 700 Club as I was already a little afraid walking up to Corner Pocket as the streets are quite dark there.

 

The stretch of Burgundy between 700 Club and Corner Pocket is poorly lit and is prone to some shady characters lurking about, so it's always wise to walk in a group of two or more, and be aware of your surroundings. I've never personally had any problems along there, but I'm 6'3" and stocky enough to be somewhat intimidating when I want to be.

[Thomas27]

The Phoenix Bar in New Orleans is for all intents and purposes an Eagle. It's located outside the French Quarter on Elysian Fields, and it caters to a similar crowd of leather/denim wearers and their admirers. There's a nice big main bar at the entrance, a fetish shop, a patio, and a small bar upstairs that frequently doubles as an impromptu fuck room.

 

The Corner Pocket is a fun male "strip" club that has lots of gay4pay hustler types and draws a mostly older crowd who are there to shove sweaty dollar bills back into the dancers' crevices. It's toward the back of the Quarter on Burgundy, a few blocks away from the rest of the gay bars. (Be on your guard here, as more than one wallet has gone amiss when unwary customers were distracted. Best to keep cash/ID/cards in front pockets and be mindful of who goes near there. Also, don't get too intoxicated that you let down your guard outside the club, as there are always opportunists lurking and waiting for drunk tourists to prey on. Keep some wit about you.)

 

The 700 Club is one of my fav neighborhood bars, and it's just a couple of blocks over from CP on the corner of Burgundy @ Saint Peter. During holiday & big event weekends there are usually some hot go-go boys atop the bar here, too. But it's always a good place to stop in, check your bearings, and refuel on some good pub food from their kitchen.

 

Rawhide is a wonderfully seedy leather bar on Saint Ann at Burgundy that has pool tables and an infamous dark back room where all kinds of shenanigans go on. Very cruisy at all hours of the day and night. (But with dark corners comes the advice from about about wallets & valuables.)

 

A block up Saint Ann from Rawhide is Good Friends Bar, a fun place if it's not overcrowded. Upstairs is usually more cruisy than the open area downstairs, and there's good views up and down the fruit loop from the balcony here.

 

There are almost always go-go boys atop the bar at Oz and The Bourbon Pub, the two biggest bars on Bourbon St (@ Saint Ann). It's good people watching from either of their balconies looking down onto the street crowd where you'll inevitably see straight girls dragging their confused looking boyfriends through the intersection into a sea of rainbow flags and shirtless men, followed shortly afterward by the newly informed boyfriend dragging the girlfriend right back toward the safety of the straight end.

 

Further down Bourbon St where it becomes mostly residential and quite a bit darker, there's Cafe Lafitte In Exile, which used to be a great place to get your dick wet or your ass passed around the pool table upstairs, but it's gotten a bit tame in recent years. Still, worth checking out. It's the furthest of all the Quarter bars in that direction, and is a hefty walk to get from here all the way to the other end of the Quarter where Corner Pocket is, so you might consider a pedicab.

 

Thank you for all this information.