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Why this New Orleans rooftop bar is considered one of the best in US
Tasting Room of Louisiana named USA TODAY’s best bars of 2025 – Video
Take a look inside the Tasting Room of Louisiana in Alexandria, Louisiana, named one of USA TODAYs best bars for 2025.
During the Gilded Age in New York City, rooftop bars originated as a way to escape the busy streets and enjoy refreshing drinks while observing the city with a birds-eye view.
Rooftop bars have held onto their novelty, as they serve as social hotspots for locals and as a perfect place for visitors to take in a new city.
Whether watching the day unfold or on a night out under the stars, rooftop bars remain popular spots for enjoying libations.
Mambo’s in New Orleans named best rooftop bar in Louisiana
Mambo’s in New Orleans is the best rooftop bar in Louisiana, according to Foodie, and is the only rooftop bar on Bourbon Street.
This rooftop bar offers a unique vantage point of the infamous Bourbon Street, with panoramic views and a lively atmosphere making the bar a perfect place to take in New Orleans’ ambience.
The open-air space seats over 50 guests, and is the perfect place for a night out or for laid-back afternoon cocktails with a view of New Orleans’ iconic French and Spanish architecture.
The rooftop bar is not the only feature attracting patrons, as this three-story building holds a hidden entrance to a secret courtyard on the main floor that leads to a patio garden. On the second floor, there is another, more intimate bar adorned with Louisiana-themed decor.
Each floor retains a rustic, historical feel, with exposed brick and reclaimed cypress planks making up the building’s interior structure. Decorating the space are pieces of local art and cultural Louisiana artifacts, making the space feel somewhat like a museum.
Not just a spot for good drinks, Mambo’s offers a dining menu full of traditional Cajun and Creole flavors. Using only the freshest local ingredients, Mambo’s chefs create a menu rich in New Orleans heritage, offering dishes like jambalaya, seafood gumbo, crawfish étouffée and a variety of po’boys.
The best rooftop bar in every state according to Foodie
- Alabama: GunRunner Rooftop Bar in Florence
- Alaska: 49th State Brewing in Anchorage
- Arizona: The Perch Brewery in Chandler
- Arkansas: Celeste at The Preacher’s Son in Bentonville
- California: Florentín Rooftop Bar in Los Angeles
- Colorado: 54thirty Rooftop in Denver
- Connecticut: Sign of the Whale in Stamford
- Delaware: The Quoin Hotel + Restaurant in Wilmington
- Florida: Rosa Sky in Miami
- Georgia: 9 Mile Station in Atlanta
- Hawaii: Tikis Grill & Bar in Honolulu
- Idaho: Crave Kitchen & Bar in Eagle
- Illinois: Raised | An Urban Rooftop Bar in Chicago
- Indiana: 3UP Rooftop Lounge in Carmel
- Iowa: Wellman’s Pub & Rooftop in Des Moines
- Kansas: Tallgrass Tap House in Manhattan
- Kentucky: Lost Palm in Lexington
- Louisiana: Mambo’s in New Orleans
- Maine: Luna Rooftop Bar in Portland
- Maryland: Hip Flask Rooftop Bar in Bethesda
- Massachusetts: Apex Rooftop Bar and Lounge in Boston
- Michigan: The Monarch Club in Detroit
- Minnesota: Brit’s Pub in Minneapolis
- Mississippi: 10 South Rooftop Bar and Grill in Vicksburg
- Missouri: 360 Rooftop Bar in St. Louis
- Montana: Bozeman Taproom & Spirits in Bozeman
- Nebraska: The Rooftop in Lincoln
- Nevada: Chéri Rooftop in Las Vegas
- New Hampshire: Rooftop at The Envio in Portsmouth
- New Jersey: RoofTop at Exchange Place in Jersey City
- New Mexico: Coyote Cantina in Santa Fe
- New York: 230 Fifth in New York City
- North Carolina: Aura Rooftop in Charlotte
- North Dakota: Camp Lonetree in Fargo
- Ohio: VASO Rooftop Lounge in Dublin
- Oklahoma: Social Capital in Oklahoma City
- Oregon: The Roof Deck at Revolution Hall in Portland
- Pennsylvania: Standard Tap in Philadelphia
- Rhode Island: Rooftop at the Providence G in Providence
- South Carolina: Rip Tydz in Myrtle Beach
- South Dakota: Juniper at Vertex Sky Bar in Rapid City
- Tennessee: The Lookout at Ole Red in Nashville
- Texas: Upstairs at Caroline in Austin
- Utah: The Green Pig Pub in Salt Lake City
- Vermont: Juniper Bar & Restaurant in Burlington
- Virginia: The Lost Fox Hideaway in Ashburn
- Washington: The Pink Door in Seattle
- West Virginia: LaFontaine’s Rooftop Lounge in Huntington
- Wisconsin: People’s Park in Waukesha
- Wyoming: Bear Bottom Bar and Grill in Centennial
Presley Bo Tyler is the Louisiana Deep South Connect Team reporter for USA Today Network. Find her on X @PresleyTyler02 and email at PTyler@Gannett.com
Peach Fest 2026 got underway with a parade in Ruston, where organizers with Quota of Ruston said entry fees will support local charitable efforts, including the Lincoln Parish Backpack Program and medical camps. Some attendees said they stumbled onto the parade by chance but stayed to enjoy the celebration and learn more about the giving behind it.
A friend recently returned from a vacation to Sweden and shared photos from his trip, mentioning a word I hadn’t heard before: fika.
Something about the way he used the word on his social media post pulled me in. The word sounded like something I would appreciate.
Loosely translated, a fika is a Swedish coffee break.
I don’t drink coffee. I’ve never been to Sweden, but I was right about appreciating the word and what it represents.
I decided to contact my friend Erika Sunnegardh. She’s a Swede, an international opera soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2006 — and my go-to source for all things Swedish.
I messaged her and learned she was on a boat off the coast of Portugal. Even so, she took the time to send me a voice message with her take on fika.
She said it’s been around for several hundred years, but the word itself took hold around 1910. Cleverly, the word came about by someone rearranging the letters of the Swedish word for coffee, kaffi. She said that it started as something women did, gathering over coffee to meet and talk. She used the word “lighthearted” to describe its origins.
Eventually, fika became a part of everyday Swedish life.
She emphasized that fika is about much more than coffee.
Logistically, sweet treats are mandatory. They call them fika bread — cinnamon rolls, cardamom buns, pastry or the like.
However, cookies are also a part of fika. She shared a detail that struck me as deeply Swedish.
“Tradition has it you should treat seven different kinds of cookies,” she said. “No less, because then you’re stingy, and no more, because then you’re showing off. Seven is the magic number.”
According to the Visit Sweden website, there are seven specific types of cookies that are the most traditional fika cookies: Brussels cookies, chocolate slices, dream cookies (a type of meringue cookie that melts in the mouth), raspberry caves, oat biscuits, nut biscuits and chessboards (two-tone shortbread cookies).
Sunnegardh told me that morning and afternoon fika are a part of daily life in Swedish workplaces. Work stops. Everybody leaves their desk. Someone may stay to cover the office phones, but fika happens, lasting 10 or 15 minutes — never more than 20. People bring their own treats and their personal phones are down. Tea is permitted for the noncoffee drinkers.
Lemon and chocolate Hubig’s Pies, cut open to show their fillings, make a decadent coffee break snack. Chocolate rejoined the lineup for flavors as the beloved New Orleans hand pie continues its gradual return to the full spectrum of flavors. (Staff photo by Ian McNulty, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
“It simply is what it is,” Erika told me from her boat. “It can’t be degraded or weirded out by any digital thing. I have never heard of anyone skipping fika just because the world has changed.”
I recognized fika from the start.
Not from Sweden, but from Mississippi.
My parents’ home was fika central.
Throughout the day — almost any day — usually mid-morning or mid-afternoon, people knocked on the door and were welcomed in. My mother would put on coffee. Somehow, there was almost always cake.
People sat down and visited, and the day went wherever it went. Now that I think about it, they usually stopped by in the mornings around 10 and in the afternoons around 2, which coincides nicely with the Swedish tradition.
My parents led productive, even busy lives, but I never remember Mom not sitting to visit when guests arrived — and my dad too when he was home.
They didn’t call it fika, of course. They didn’t call it anything. It was just how things were.
Things stayed that way for my parents until my dad died and my mother moved away from our family home to be closer to my youngest brother.
The tradition was not passed to the next generation. Dropping by unannounced is unheard of now. We rarely sit and visit without an agenda. We schedule coffee weeks out.
I do like calling it fika.
Names change things.
What was an interruption becomes a ritual. What felt like lost time becomes the point.
If fika is the word that gets people to put their phones down and sit with each other — really sit, with something sweet nearby and no particular reason to leave — then I am for it.
My mother never needed a word for it. She just opened the door.
MARSHALL, Texas (KETK) – A man is currently wanted after police said he kidnapped his ex-girlfriend in Marshall on Saturday, before fleeing into Louisiana.
The Marshall Police Department reported that their dispatch got a call requesting a welfare check at a property in the 1300 block of East Pinecrest Drive at around 7:29 a.m. on Saturday. Officers who responded to the scene met a woman who said she had just been kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend.
The officers determined that the woman had escaped from her ex-boyfriend and that he fled from the scene before they arrived. Marshall PD identified the ex-boyfriend as Jamichael Brown.
Brown’s vehicle was later found abandoned in Greenwood, La. Then, Marshall PD joined with the Joint
Harrison County Violent Crime and Narcotics Task Force, the Waskom Police Department, the Greenwood Police Department and the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office to conduct a joint search of the area near his vehicle but Brown was not found.
He’s currently wanted for prior warrants on charges of violation of bond conditions and assault of a pregnant person, along with a new warrant for aggravated kidnapping, which was secured by Marshall PD on Saturday.
Marshall PD said Brown should be considered armed and dangerous and they’ve asked the public not to approach him. Anyone who sees him is asked to call 911 or local law enforcement.
Anyone with information about this case is also asked to call the the Marshall Police Department Criminal Investigation Division at 903-935-4575.
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