There was no specialty drink menu? Maybe they’re rebooting that, which would be a good thing. I was there once, prior to the grand opening, and the installation of their tap lines. All they had was beer in bottle and cocktails including a “specialty drink menu” that claimed to New Orleans cocktails. I think the only one they might have got right was the Hurricaine. Everything else was a mess and made me wonder if the bar manager had ever read a bartending manual, let alone been to New Orleans. Apparently the bar manager or cocktail designer’s theory was that New Orleans = sickly sweet. I can’t remember/willfully forgot most of the specifics on the drink menu, but their biggest howler was the Sazarac, built on the rocks with Jaquin’s Rock n’ Rye (the actual drink is neat — maybe 1 or 2 ice cubes — and calls for the best rye on hand. You can substitute a bourbon or a blend if you don’t have rye, but Old Overholt and Sazarac rye are the staples in “real deal” New Orleans). They might have even dropped a maraschinco cherry in it (actual drink calls for a twist of lemon over the drink but not dropped, though most of the NOLA bars I go to just put a bit of peel in for ornamentation/server marking). Only good thing about the experience is it got me over to Time (also opening weekend) to wash out the gross with their real whiskeys. I’ve actually been afraid to ask for a Sazarac, which I fell in love with back in New Orleans in March) in philly since, though I imagine Southwark, the Apothecary, or Time may have someone on hand able to whip up a proper one.