Le Roundup

A great little dive bar! The bartender was friendly as were the patrons. Drinks are cheap and well prepared. Be ready to meet some true characters. One gentleman was celebrating his release back into society after a stay in prison!
A little gem!

Le Round up is my favorite bar I’m New Orleans. It is a very local spot full of colorful characters:) If you like to people watch, this is where you will get the best experience in the city of New Orleans. The regulars are pretty friendly if you aren’t rude or causing trouble. Drinks are always delicious and Tony and Jason are the best bartenders:)

This place is sketch city but in a fun way. I stumbled in here on Halloween night with a random dude who I’m pretty sure may have been a drug dealer or on the lamb from the law and had a great time people watching all of the weirdos and characters. This place is divey as hell. I wouldn’t come here on a date or anything – but this is the perfect place to duck into when you’re looking for a strange night.

Yes, this is a dive bar. But, it has so many characters that it is usually better than watching a reality TV show. While some of the bartenders are less than friendly and can be rude, I just avoid their shifts. The ones to look for are: Kelton — the most entertaining bartender I have met. Miss Carol — classy, but still tough enough to control the place. Maggie — nice when on duty, but when off duty, is usually part of the entertainment. Love this place and have been going since 1995. Some of the bartenders are less than friendly, but not those who I have mentioned.

The best place to watch a couple frat boys accidentally walk in and immediately squirm with fear or intrigue.

This was an interesting spot, to say the least! It’s a dive bar, and good for people watching. I heard they have happy hour specials on well drinks for $ 2 – 3 before 8:00 p.m. We arrived around 9:00 p.m. and paid $ 12 for two very weak mixed drinks.
The bartender was friendly and had a bubbly, old southern gal kind of personality. I wanted to ask her what kind of hairspray she used, since her hair did not move out of its helmet shape, but I’ll assume it was Aquanet. 3 patrons came in with small dogs, one of which was more than happy to let me sit and pet her 3 month old puppy.
The bartender also explained that she had a key for the bathroom, because the «ladies of the night were turning their tricks in there.»
She also explained that they don’t take credit cards, it’s cash only, because of… I didn’t catch it, but it again had something to do with those pesky «ladies of the night.»
No doubt that this is a locals spot, although we were caught by surprise when the couple next to us said they were from a neighboring city in the Chicago suburbs.
Worth stopping in for a drink while waiting for dinner reservations to roll around. Worth sticking around longer during happy hour.

I absolutely love this place.
Great off-​the-​beaten path dive bar steps from Bourbon St with cold beer, cheap cocktails and great cold air conditioning.
(pay no mind to the previous reviewer, who orders water in a bar? seriously, looks like she DID go back to NY after all! haha)
We found this place, like most people, by happenstance… it was a hot hot day, the sun was beating down on us and we ducked into this place and found the best and most unusual cast of characters ever. Transsexuals, gays, straights, drag queens, dogs, etc… you’ll find it all here. Behind the «Employees Only» sign on the back door is possibly the most under utilized FQ courtyard that is begging to be used…
Happy hour is great. $ 2.50 well drinks, $ 6 pitchers of draft beer. Papa the bartender is EXACTLY what you’re looking for in a FQ bartender, dispensing wisdom and telling stories about his husband and kids. Oh and did I mention the air conditioning is phenomenal? Which is essential during NOLA summers.
Go with an open mind and looking for an adventure, you’ll love it…

Wow. so I’d been here before tonight, years ago, and it was legitimately terrifying (as in seriously, for our lives, and after tonight i will be filing a legitimate legal complaint with the BBB and anyone else with whom I possibly can)…first time, years back, i’d seen a sign about super cheap bloodies at certain hours, on weekend ams… came back for specifically that, but the signs at the times it applied were not there… finally find the venue, and the crowd (at 11 am) was legitimate drug dealers/​people still up from the night before… as two small blonde law school students in our early 20s, this was a bit intense, but ok, we were nola residents by now, we could handle it for some cheap bloodies… so we head to the bathroom (together being that neither of us felt safe alone with the crowd at the bar, and bartender himself) and the bartender legitimately tries to BEAT DOWN THE DOOR screaming that no more than one person is allowed in the bathroom at a time, they dont want people doing drugs in the bathroom and the cops coming (i’ve never even smoked a cigarette, nonetheless partaken in drugs of any sort), etc… needless to say, the entire experience was one the most intense of my life (and ive traveled the world, bali, tokyo, europe, hong kong, been robbed in rio, etc etc,…).
Now, years later, i came back by accident, in tears from a fight with my boyfriend, with a complete stranger trying to console me and so i order 2 waters (he requests bottled as they won’t take orders for tap, despite the fact that this bar is well off the beaten path, and not packed by any means)…the bartender then tells me its over $ 7…hmmm i live in manhattan, and that would be absurd in a city where the cost of everything is over 3x the price of nola… I tell him ok, i’ll pay for the guys water and forego mine, to which he yells that he’s already opened both. I inform him that this would be a high price for bottled waters even in manhattan, and in reply he SCREAMS (especially rude as i am legitimately in tears due to other reasons) at me that this would be a STEAL in NY and go back there, b/​c $ 7 for 2 waters is a DEAL in nola. As we then decide to leave (his behavior, along with the price, was literally so ludicrous that he must have been on some sort of drugs himself), he proceeds to scream at us across the bar «GO BACK TO NEW YORK HAHAHA!!!» …I reply that i lived here for three years during law school as I walk out the door, and as I have come back every few months since graduating two Mays ago, i’d say its safe to say that cheap drinks are one of the primary motivating factors for the tourist industry here. Given we paid $ 10 for 2 stoli drinks earlier that night, I’d say $ 7 for water at an absolute dive, followed by intense screaming and absurd behavior on the behalf of the bartender solidifies my opinion that this place should be shut down immediately. Sketchy as F during the day, and even moreso at night, with the polar opposite of any sort of customer service performed by the employees –however being that this is Nola where almost everything with regards to law and law enforcement is crooked beyond belief, I highly doubt that anything will occur to halt the practices of this «establishment.»