40th birthday

The default plan for an adult birthday in New Orleans is dinner reservation, drinks at a bar, walk to a second bar, end the night arguing about whether to get one more drink or go home. By the third birthday in a year, your group has done it eight times. Same restaurants. Same Bourbon Street. Same blurry group photo at 11pm. If you’re the one planning, you already know this. The birthday person already knows it too. The job isn’t picking which dinner reservation to make. The job is finding the one centerpiece moment that makes this birthday feel different from the last three you’ve thrown. This is the post for that. We’re a bike bar that runs through the French Quarter, the Bywater, and the Marigny, and a huge percentage of our private bookings are birthday groups. We’ve watched…