Bars in Da Big Easy

New Orleans Polishes Its Bars
DRINK UP Kirk Estopinal creates cobblers at Bellocq in New Orleans.
By ROBERT SIMONSON
Published: July 31, 2012

STAND in front of the Hotel Modern, on the dusty New Orleans roundabout known as Lee Circle, and your thirst has a choice. Walk into Tamarind, to the right, and you’ll find a selection of contemporary cocktails laced with Asian flavors to complement the restaurant’s French-Vietnamese cuisine. Take a left into Bellocq and you’ll have your pick of cobblers, an ice-laden, fruit-crested breed of cocktail that was all the rage back in the mid-1800s and is this inventive new bar’s calling card. Moar