For our visit to the Bulldog, we walked from the Riverwalk/Harrah’s area, which was probably a bit more than 2 miles and took about a half an hour. The bar was a long narrow room with a bar down the left side, and a few tables and booths on the right. The place, while dim with dark wood, appeared to be relatively new.
The beer list was nearly identical to the two other beer-savvy places we visited in New Orleans, the d.b.a. and the Delachaise. It seems that these places offer all that’s available here, and there is not a ton of variety to be had in the city and I didn’t see much that excited me. The menu was laid out in a way that seemed to try to maximize the number of places where beer is from rather than the variety of beer itself.
Our bartender was an attractive young woman, but didn’t seem unduly interested in beer. I had a Grimbergen Dubbel, which came to me in a pint glass (which may have come from the fridge) and served an ice-cold 33-35 degrees. Of the three places we visited in NO (Bulldog, d.b.a, Delachaise) Delachaise felt like a place for foodies/winos, d.b.a. came closest to feeling like a beer-geek bar, and Bulldog felt closest to just a normal bar for young twenty-somethings with a larger than average beer selection.
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Good selection by SE US standards. The atmosphere is pleasant and beery, though neither the crowd nor the bartender showed any evidence of being beer-savvy. (She asked if we wanted a glass not beer-savvy.) Too much BMC on tap to be interesting. More of a good beer wannabe than anything else, but at least that’s a step in the right direction. If you’re in the neighbohood, stop by, but otherwise make it a point to visit d.b.a.
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