And one of the most popular of all is the Voodoo Daiquiri, more commonly known as the "purple drank," offered at Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar at the corner of Bourbon and St. Philip.

Inside Lafitte's in Exile at the corner of Bourbon and St. Philip, the gay bar was rather busy with folks stopping in to get a reprieve from the wind. Just up the street at Nola Po-boys ...