Vieux Carré
Origin
Walter Bergeron · Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans · 1937
Bergeron, head bartender at the Monteleone, designed the drink to represent the multicultural makeup of the French Quarter ('Vieux Carré'). First published in Stanley Clisby Arthur's Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix 'Em (1937).
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