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Vieux Carré Cocktail Recipe

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Last updated: Dec 19, 2024 • 1 min read

The Vieux Carré cocktail is a New Orleans classic. This drink recipe appeared in a 1930s edition of Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix ’Em, written by Stanley Clisby Arthur, which was based on the recipe from the Hotel Monteleone’s head bartender (at the time), Walter Bergeron. The name “vieux carré” refers to the French term for The French Quarter, “the old square.”

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Vieux Carré Recipe

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makes

1 cocktail

prep time

3 min

total time

3 min

Ingredients

  1. 1

    Gather all your ingredients.

  2. 2

    Fill a mixing glass with ice and pour in all the ingredients.

  3. 3

    Stir together.

  4. 4

    Fill a rocks glass with ice and strain ingredients into the rocks glass to fill.

  5. 5

    Top with a cherry and serve.

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