The Freret Street bar that helped launch New Orleans' modern cocktail renaissance when it opened in 2009 — a James Beard winner in a converted firehouse, with a high-ceilinged apothecary-styled room and a menu that takes seasonal, ingredient-driven drinks seriously. Less about historical recreation than forward-looking craft. The bar that proved NOLA's cocktail culture wasn't just nostalgia. For drinks at the room that modernized the city's bar scene.