New Orleans Wine Bars: Five Seated Wine Stops

A seated glass of wine in New Orleans can mean a French Quarter courtyard, a sommelier-founded restaurant or an upstairs bar in Bywater. Choose the setting and the food you want, rather than planning a tasting tour. Patula suits a break during a French Quarter visit, while Pluck gives you a wine-led restaurant outing with a small snack. The Tell Me Bar, The Delachaise and Bacchanal offer three other distinct reasons to sit down over a glass.

Choose a wine bar

Venue	Area	Food suggestion	Glass budget	Glass + food, per person	Weekly closing day
Patula	French Quarter	Ham sandwich	$10–$20	$25–$40	Tuesday
Pluck	Warehouse District	Plucky Popcorn	$10–$20	$15–$25	Sunday
The Tell Me Bar	Lower Garden District	Cajun caviar	$10–$20	$20–$35	None
The Delachaise	Uptown	Thai moules frites	$10–$20	$30–$45	None
Bacchanal	Bywater	Mix-and-match cheese plate	$10–$20	$20–$35	None

Choose Patula for courtyard wine or The Delachaise for a more substantial food order. Pluck suits a sommelier-led restaurant visit, The Tell Me Bar a low-intervention wine outing and Bacchanal an upstairs glass. These are separate outings. Budgets are rounded estimates before tax and tip: popcorn is a light individual snack, sandwich and mussels are more substantial, and the caviar and cheese estimates assume sharing. Larger orders and pricier wines raise the spend.

Keep drinks visits flexible, request seats, and treat outdoor seating as weather-dependent. Reserve for a restaurant meal. Named glass-list examples illustrate changing selections. Bacchanal’s cheese suggestion is venue-wide. Royal Street extends beyond the French Quarter into Bywater, so the neighbourhood matters when choosing your stop. For skyline or river views instead, consider New Orleans rooftop bars.

Patula: courtyard wine and a ham sandwich

Patula’s seated courtyard wine service gives you a place to pause during a French Quarter visit. Look for the ham sandwich when you want something more substantial than a bar snack alongside your glass. It makes this an option for a food-and-wine break rather than only a drink before dinner.

The all-day setting leaves room for an earlier outing as well as an evening glass. Ask for courtyard seating when that is the reason for your visit, rather than assuming any available seat will give you the same experience. Royal Street places the stop among the French Quarter’s shops and galleries, so you can build it into time already spent exploring the neighbourhood.

Pluck: wine and Plucky Popcorn

Pluck was founded by sommelier Skye LaTorre, and a glass with Plucky Popcorn gives you a small order within a wine-focused restaurant. The popcorn’s cacio e pepe seasoning means cheese and pepper. It is a snack to accompany the wine, not a substitute for dinner.

One glass-list example is Bodegas Care Garnacha Blanca from Cariñena, Spain, served in a 5-ounce pour. The separately listed XXVI Talhas from Alentejo, Portugal, illustrates an orange-wine choice, meaning a white wine made with skin contact. Tell the staff whether you prefer something fresh, fuller-bodied or textured, and use those examples to start the conversation rather than fixing your visit around a particular label.

The Warehouse District makes Pluck a useful choice when your outing is already centred on this part of New Orleans. The Woodward Wight building is one of the former commercial buildings that mark the neighbourhood. For your wine, ask about the daily sommelier selection from the bottle list if you would rather let the staff suggest a glass. This gives you another way to explore the restaurant’s wine selection alongside the popcorn.

The Tell Me Bar: natural wine and Cajun caviar

The Tell Me Bar focuses on small-production, low-intervention wines, making it a choice for exploring producers beyond familiar labels. Low-intervention describes an approach that limits manipulation in making the wine, rather than a single flavour. Say what you enjoy drinking and let that guide the choice of a glass.

Look for Cajun caviar as a food suggestion for a seated wine visit. Treat it as a snack to share, rather than planning a full meal around it. The Lower Garden District location puts this outing on St Thomas Street, which continues into the Irish Channel. Closing times are approximate, with the venue’s “ish” finish rather than a rigid end to the evening.

The Delachaise: wine and Thai moules frites

The Delachaise pairs its longstanding bistro identity with over 350 wines, including 36 priced under $36. That breadth is a reason to sit down with food and explore the selection, rather than treating it simply as a place for a quick drink.

Thai moules frites, meaning mussels and chips, is the more substantial food suggestion here. Choose it when you want your wine outing to include something closer to a meal than a light snack. The St Charles Avenue setting makes this an Uptown outing, along the avenue served by the streetcar.

Monday–Thursday

4pm until late (1am or later)

Friday–Saturday

Noon until later (2am or later)

Sunday

Noon until late (1am or later)

The weekend opening makes an earlier wine-and-food visit possible, while the late finish is open-ended.

Bacchanal: the upstairs wine bar

For seated wine by the glass at Bacchanal, choose the upstairs Treehouse Bar and dining area. This is distinct from choosing a bottle in the wine shop, so head upstairs when an individual glass is the outing you want. It gives the wine-shop-and-courtyard venue a separate seated option for a glass rather than a bottle.

Bacchanal’s venue-wide food offer includes mix-and-match cheese plates with house-made accompaniments such as toast, olives and pickles. Choose a selection to share if you want a light food order with your wine, and build the plate around the cheeses you most enjoy rather than treating it as a fixed selection.

The Bywater location makes this a destination in its own right, amid the neighbourhood’s residential streets, rather than another French Quarter stop.

Sources & fact-checking

Checks against the sources below cover: closures, key figures, opening hours, and services.

• Pluck Wine Bar & Restaurant — closures
• Pluck Menu
• Pluck Menu PDF
• Pluck Menu
• KREWE — opening hours
• Bacchanal Wine — service
• Bacchanal Wine — key figures
• The Tell Me Bar — opening hours