How do you get into The Original Nite Cap?
We have not confirmed it. The Original Nite Cap is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at The Original Nite Cap
How the venue describes itself: “Delicious dinner and live show in New Orleans blending Sicilian Italian food with immersive burlesque show experiences, cocktails, and live entertainment.” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
The current drinks list is published on the venue’s own site — see the menu.
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Adonis, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Original Nite Cap sits
The Original Nite Cap is in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Orleans Parish, in the Deep South of the United States.
Our directory currently lists five speakeasies and hidden bars in New Orleans. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in New Orleans.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Original Nite Cap are 7th Ward Ice Cream Speakeasy, about 500 m away, Melange Speakeasy Bar, about 850 m away, and Potions Speakeasy, about 1.1 km away.
Louisiana holds 17 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Louisiana speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Louisiana
Louisiana came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Louisiana.
What the newspapers recorded in New Orleans
Searching the Library of Congress run of Louisiana newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from New Orleans:
- The herald, October 19, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Friday – Saturday 5:30pm – 9:30pm
- Monday – Thursday 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach The Original Nite Cap by phone on (504) 224-2854, through its own website, and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 1300 St Bernard Ave, New Orleans, LA 70116-1415. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Original Nite Cap we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold an online booking link or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.