A guide's own black book of the Quarter — the tables, the back bars, the morning counters — opened for a few hours at a time to whoever is curious enough to follow.
every route starts at a corner you'd walk straight past.
Plate I — the guide's ledger, open on the table
no table you could have found on your own
Every tour in the book is written the same way: a route, a handful of stops, and the notes a guide would only give you while walking beside you.
Plate II — the walk, in progress
From the river side to the Marigny edge, we walk the grid and stop where the kitchens cook for the people who live on the block. Small plates, long stories, and a route that only makes sense on foot.
come hungry, and leave the schedule at home.
Reserve this routePlate III — ice, bitters, and the long afternoon
The old bars keep their stories in the wood. We start where the first bartenders did and work forward through ice, bitters and the slow heat of a Louisiana afternoon, ending somewhere with a door you would not have opened alone.
order the one with the least ice in it.
Reserve this routePlate IV — Sunday, taken slowly
Powdered sugar, chicory coffee and the long tables the Quarter keeps for people who are not in a hurry. We start early enough to beat the crowd and finish late enough that the rest of the day is optional.
bring the ones who sleep in.
Reserve this routeAlso in the book — private group tours and gilt-edged gift certificates.
Fig. 1 — a five-stop route, redrawn each morning
Guides keep their own geography — the doorway with no sign, the courtyard you would walk past, the three blocks worth the detour after dark. Ours is drawn in pencil, corrected in pen, and carried in the back of the ledger.
The corner with no sign, and the courtyard you would otherwise walk straight past.
Ask what the kitchen is proud of, not what it is known for.
Before the room fills. The best tables are the ones you are early for.
The whole black book, and only the people you bring. Tell us what you want to eat, drink and see, and we will draw a route around it — then keep the rest of the Quarter politely out of the way.
Gift Certificate
Cochon Culinary Tours
French Quarter · New Orleans
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Redeemable against any tour in the book
A gift certificate covers any entry in the black book — a food walk, a cocktail history afternoon, a slow brunch, or a private route drawn for the occasion. We write the name in the space and hand it across the table.
Ask about gift certificatesTell us which entry you want, and when. We will write back with the meeting corner, the route and the notes that go with it.