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June 1-August 31
Galatoire's "Beat the Heat" summer martini special offers half-priced premium martinis at lunchtime between 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Galatoire's, 209 Bourbon St., New Orleans, LA 70130, 504-525-2021.
July 8-12
Stir your soul at the 7th annual Tales of the Cocktail event. With more than 100 events, this is on the country’s premier celebrations of spirits. The event brings together the best and brightest of the cocktail community---mixologists, authors, bartenders and chefs---for a five-day celebration of the history and the craft of the cocktail. Participants attend cocktail hours, symposiums, seminars, luncheons, book auctions and sales, beer tastings, absinthe tastings, and one of the highlights of the event, the spirited dinners. These are dinners at some of the best restaurants in the city, featuring dinner pairings with unique menus designed by local chefs and top bar chefs. Each course is paired with a cocktail and guests dine and mingle with the mixologists during dinner. For more information or to reserve, call 504-948-0511.
Through 2009
The Besh Steakhouse at Harrah's, the steakhouse run by chef John Besh within Harrah's New Orleans Casino, has a new special offering patrons unlimited quantities of wine during early-week dinners. Add $20.09 to your check and the staff promises not to let your glass go empty, refilling it with a selection of American reds or whites. The special pricing is good Mondays through Wednesdays from 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Lunch & Dinner daily. The Besh Steakhouse at Harrah's, 228 Poydras St., New Orleans, LA 70130, 504-533-6111.
Monday through Friday
As if the clubby, leathery bar at Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse were not reason enough to stop by after work, the restaurant just announced its new "$5 After 5PM" promotion, featuring small plates and specialty cocktails for just five bucks until 7 p.m., Mon.-Fri. Try the “Spiked Arnold Palmer”---Firefly tea vodka with lemon sour and soda, garnished with fresh mint, and pair it with some prime rib chili, or andouille-stuffed fried olives. The other standout cocktail is a Sobieski dry martini with a hint of dry vermouth, which will go down easily with Louisiana crabmeat batons with pepper jelly glaze. It makes 5 p.m. seem so far away, doesn’t it? Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse, 716 Iberville St., New Orleans, LA 70130, 504-522-2467.
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