Latitude 29 has operated as a seated tiki bar in the French Quarter since 2014, built around Beachbum Berry's work tracking down vintage Polynesian-pop drink recipes. It's a 21-and-over space, and the menu reads like a running archive of the genre's history.
The drink list pulls from decades of tiki lore: Trader Vic's 1944 Mai Tai, a toned-down version of Don the Beachcomber's Zombie built with light, dark, and overproof Caribbean rums, and the Suffering Bastard, dating to Shepheard's Hotel Cairo in 1942. Rarer finds include the Jet Pilot, first served at the Luau in Beverly Hills in 1953, and the Lapu Lapu, a 1964 Don the Beachcomber recipe that Berry rediscovered and put back on a menu. House drinks like the Navy Grog, Kea Colada, and Hawaii 504 round out the list.
Food runs Hawaiian-inflected and pan-Asian, built for sharing: red bean eggrolls, coconut shrimp, crab pad Thai, bao buns filled with pork belly or fried Gulf oysters, beef tartar nigiri, and Korean fried chicken among the rotating small plates.
Regulars point to the craft cocktails and tiki authenticity, the service, and the immersive atmosphere as reasons the place has built a following, alongside its reputation for happy hour value.
The drink list pulls from decades of tiki lore: Trader Vic's 1944 Mai Tai, a toned-down version of Don the Beachcomber's Zombie built with light, dark, and overproof Caribbean rums, and the Suffering Bastard, dating to Shepheard's Hotel Cairo in 1942. Rarer finds include the Jet Pilot, first served at the Luau in Beverly Hills in 1953, and the Lapu Lapu, a 1964 Don the Beachcomber recipe that Berry rediscovered and put back on a menu. House drinks like the Navy Grog, Kea Colada, and Hawaii 504 round out the list.
Food runs Hawaiian-inflected and pan-Asian, built for sharing: red bean eggrolls, coconut shrimp, crab pad Thai, bao buns filled with pork belly or fried Gulf oysters, beef tartar nigiri, and Korean fried chicken among the rotating small plates.
Regulars point to the craft cocktails and tiki authenticity, the service, and the immersive atmosphere as reasons the place has built a following, alongside its reputation for happy hour value.