The rotating bar inside the Hotel Monteleone — a literal carousel that makes a slow revolution every fifteen minutes, in operation since 1949. Beyond the gimmick is a serious cocktail program and a Vieux Carré claim (the cocktail was reportedly invented here). Writers from Hemingway to Faulkner drank in this room. Touristy, yes, but earned — a genuine piece of New Orleans drinking history that happens to spin. For a Vieux Carré in the bar that made it.