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The Warbler, a 58-room Jazz Age hotel, opens in New Orleans
Native New Orleanians turn a much-loved Garden District diner site into a Deco-styled hotel with a martini bar and rooftop.
The Warbler is the first hotel from Verdad, a New Orleans development firm run by locals who wanted the kind of place they would use themselves. It stands on the old Trolley Stop Cafe site, a St. Charles Avenue diner that fed the neighbourhood for 26 years, and now rises six storeys over the oak-shaded streetcar route through the Garden District, where the krewes parade each Mardi Gras.
EskewDumezRipple designed the building, its pale brick facade cut with deep-set arches, and Jamie Bush + Co. did the interiors as a riff on 1920s and 1930s modernism: cerused oak, custom millwork, Deco-era wallpaper and plenty of shine. The 58 rooms and suites, from single kings to three-bedroom suites, are dressed in the green and yellow of the bird itself, with minibar snacks from local grocer Meyer Provisions. Up top, a planted rooftop lounge with wicker furniture and a tile mural by Anna Koeferl looks over the trees.
Downstairs, Mildred's is a martini bar and restaurant from Neal Bodenheimer and Kirk Estopinal of Cure, with chef Andrew Zimmerman cooking a seafood-led, Iberian-leaning menu.
This comes from a press release, but it reads as a good Uptown base, especially for anyone who fancies a front-row seat for Carnival.
Our summary of a story from Hotel Online, published 20 October 2026. Read the original
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From Hotel Online