Entertainment Districts in Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge Gallery in the Government Street arts corridor presents contemporary Louisiana art exhibitions and community arts events that serve the state capital's growing arts and creative community as one of Louisiana's most active non-commercial gallery organizations.

Bourbon Street is the iconic entertainment artery of the French Quarter, a 13-block stretch of bars, live music clubs, restaurants, and neon lights open 24 hours. The street's open-container policy, daiquiri bars, Cajun restaurants, and continuous live music from jazz to rock make it one of America's most visited and photographed nightlife destinations — for better or worse.

Bourbon Street is the most famous entertainment street in America — a French Quarter corridor that operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, where open-container laws permit drinking on public streets and where jazz, blues, and rock music pours from every doorway. Bourbon Street's extraordinary combination of New Orleans's unique entertainment permissiveness, its remarkable culinary and musical heritage, and its 300-year-old French Colonial streetscape creates an entertainment district of singular American cultural freedom significance.

Bywater's creative entertainment district has become the most artistically vital neighborhood in New Orleans — a post-Katrina renaissance area where outstanding restaurants, galleries, and the vibrant arts community create an entertainment environment of genuine New Orleans creative cultural significance. Bywater's extraordinary creative energy and its remarkable concentration of outstanding independent establishments create an entertainment district that reflects the most optimistic possibilities of New Orleans's cultural future.

New Orleans's Central City neighborhood along Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard has developed as an arts and culture district with galleries, restaurants, and performance spaces serving the historic African-American community in one of the city's most historically significant neighborhoods.

Lake Charles LA's Bourbon Street corridor and the surrounding entertainment district serves the west Louisiana gaming and tourism market alongside L'Auberge du Lac and Golden Nugget casino resorts as one of the Gulf South's most complete resort entertainment destinations accessible from the Houston market.

Downtown Baton Rouge along River Road and Third Street presents the state capital with a growing urban entertainment district, anchored by the Shaw Center for the Arts, Manship Theatre, and a developing restaurant and bar scene that serves the government, healthcare, and university professional community.

Downtown Lafayette LA along Jefferson Street, Columbia Street, and the Jefferson Street arts corridor is the heart of Acadiana's entertainment and cultural life, with Cajun and zydeco music bars, Creole restaurants, art galleries, and the regular Downtown Alive concert series creating the most authentically Louisiana music and dining experience outside New Orleans.

The French Quarter (Vieux Carré) is the historic core of New Orleans — a 78-block grid of Spanish and French colonial architecture that is the city's cultural centre for jazz, cuisine, nightlife, and street entertainment. Bourbon Street, Jackson Square, the St. Louis Cathedral, and legendary bars and restaurants are all within the Quarter, minutes from Harrah's New Orleans casino.

The Frenchmen Art Market is a nightly outdoor arts market on Frenchmen Street featuring local visual artists, jewelry makers, and craftspeople alongside the street's live jazz performances. One of New Orleans's most authentic outdoor market experiences, the Art Market draws both tourists and locals and has become integral to the Frenchmen Street nightlife experience.

Frenchmen Art Market at the corner of Frenchmen and Royal Streets in the Marigny neighborhood is a nightly open-air market of local New Orleans artists, crafters, and artisans operating alongside the live music venues on Frenchmen Street, creating one of the most vibrant mixed arts and music street environments in America.

Frenchmen Street is New Orleans's authentic music neighborhood — a four-block corridor in the Faubourg Marigny just outside the French Quarter lined with live music venues, bars, and the outdoor Frenchmen Art Market. Seven or more venues host simultaneous live music nightly, making Frenchmen Street the one place in America where you can genuinely encounter jazz, brass band, funk, and blues all at once just by walking half a block.

Frenchmen Street in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood is New Orleans's most celebrated live music strip — a two-block concentration of jazz clubs, blues bars, and Creole restaurants where world-class musicians perform nightly for cover charges under $20. Locals regard Frenchmen Street as the soul of New Orleans music culture, distinct from the tourist-oriented Bourbon Street scene.

Frenchmen Street in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood is New Orleans's most active live music street for local music culture, hosting the Blue Nile, Spotted Cat, dba, Three Muses, and Snug Harbor in a three-block stretch that locals often prefer to Bourbon Street for its authentic New Orleans jazz, brass band, and blues music scene. Many consider Frenchmen Street the soul of New Orleans music culture.

Freret Street in Uptown New Orleans has developed from a blighted corridor to one of the city's most vibrant neighborhood entertainment districts following post-Katrina revitalization, with Cure cocktail bar, the Drifter Hotel, the Freret Beer Room, restaurants, and creative businesses serving the Tulane and Loyola University communities in one of New Orleans's most successful neighborhood revival stories.

Baton Rouge's Highland Road corridor along the LSU campus serves Louisiana's second-largest city and 35,000+ LSU student community with dozens of bars, restaurants, and entertainment venues in a university strip that is one of Louisiana's most active college-city entertainment districts.

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Jazz Fest) is one of the world's greatest music festivals, held each spring at Fair Grounds Race Course with 12 stages presenting jazz, blues, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, R&B, and world music over two weekends. Jazz Fest's combination of extraordinary musical programming and authentic Louisiana food culture has made it a once-in-a-lifetime experience that regularly draws 400,000+ attendees from around the world.

The Canal Street entertainment corridor in New Orleans connects the French Quarter to the Central Business District with historic theater venues, restaurants, and hotels serving the wide main street that was once New Orleans's primary shopping and entertainment boulevard.

Lafayette LA's Kaliste Saloom Road and Ambassador Caffery Parkway entertainment corridors provide the Acadiana hub city with suburban restaurant and bar options serving the suburban communities south of downtown Lafayette in one of Louisiana's fastest-growing metropolitan areas.

Magazine Street is New Orleans's upscale retail and dining corridor stretching 6 miles through Uptown neighborhoods, lined with independent boutiques, antique shops, cocktail bars, restaurants, and galleries. The stretch between Louisiana Avenue and Napoleon Avenue concentrates the neighborhood's most popular dining and drinking establishments popular with the city's creative and professional community.

Magazine Street serves Uptown New Orleans with a 6-mile corridor of outstanding independent restaurants, excellent cocktail bars, extraordinary antique shops, and the most beautiful residential architecture in America (the Garden District's antebellum mansions are among the finest examples of Southern domestic architecture in the country). Magazine Street's extraordinary combination of architectural beauty, outstanding independent commerce, and genuine New Orleans neighborhood character creates an entertainment district of remarkable Louisiana urban significance.

The Mandeville lakefront on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain provides entertainment, dining, and outdoor recreation options for the St. Tammany Parish market north of New Orleans, with restaurants and bars along the lakefront catering to the affluent suburban community that has grown significantly post-Katrina.

Oak Street in the Carrollton neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans is one of the city's most vibrant neighborhood entertainment corridors, featuring the Maple Leaf Bar, Cooter Brown's Tavern, Jacques-Imo's Café, and several other bars and restaurants in a walkable streetcar-adjacent neighborhood away from French Quarter tourist crowds.

Oak Street in the Carrollton neighborhood of New Orleans presents an authentic neighborhood commercial corridor with community bars, the Po-Boy Festival, and local restaurants that serve the uptown New Orleans community away from the tourist-oriented French Quarter entertainment zone.

Oak Street in Uptown New Orleans is a charming neighborhood entertainment and shopping street parallel to the St. Charles Avenue streetcar line, with the Maple Leaf Bar, Cooter Brown's Tavern, restaurants, and independent boutiques serving the Riverbend and Carrollton neighborhoods in one of New Orleans's most residential and authentic entertainment districts.

Slidell LA on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain provides the bedroom communities northeast of New Orleans with entertainment options including restaurants, bars, and seasonal festival events serving the growing suburban communities in St. Tammany Parish, one of Louisiana's fastest-growing and most affluent parishes.

St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans's Bywater and St. Claude neighborhoods is one of the city's most creatively fertile emerging arts corridors, with galleries, artist studios, bars, and performance spaces that present the next generation of New Orleans's arts community. The area represents the continuation of the Frenchmen Street creative energy further into the historic African-American neighborhoods of the upper Ninth Ward.

Steamboat Natchez on the New Orleans riverfront presents evening dinner jazz cruises on the Mississippi River, offering live traditional jazz music, a creole buffet, and spectacular river views from the authentic steam-powered sternwheeler that is one of New Orleans's most beloved tourist experiences connecting visitors to the city's riverboat heritage.

Tigerland is Louisiana State University's nightlife district in Baton Rouge — a cluster of bars and clubs on Nicholson Drive that serve LSU's student population before and after home games and on weekends. One of the most recognizable college bar districts in the SEC, Tigerland draws tens of thousands during football Saturdays.

Treme neighborhood in New Orleans is the oldest African-American neighborhood in the United States and the birthplace of jazz, presenting brass band music, Mardi Gras Indian cultural traditions, and Sunday second-line parades that embody the living musical heritage that has made New Orleans the most musically significant city in America.