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Good margaritas in New Orleans

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Happy Cinco de Mayo! We crave margaritas and chips and salsa on May 5. How about you? Lucky for us New Orleans has plenty of watering holes. Check out these recommendations from various New Orleans sources:

GoNOLA recommends eight specific margaritas around town. Of course, Felipe’s house margarita is on the list. The options also include classic margaritas and craft cocktails inspired by margaritas.

One of the recommendations is a margarita from Rum House. This is what the house margarita looks like (on the right):

margarita and sangria from Rum House (photo by Carlie Kollath Wells, New in NOLA)

margarita and sangria from Rum House (photo by Carlie Kollath Wells, New in NOLA)

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Cocktail ideas for king cake vodka

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Taaka’s king cake vodka continues to tempt us. It’s a sweet, flavored vodka found at nearly every grocery store this time of year.

image via @newinNOLA on Instagram

image via @newinNOLA on Instagram

Last month, we offered up two cocktail recipes from Rouses (see them).

If you don’t have access to king cake-flavored vodka but you still want a king cake cocktail, try this one from GoNOLA.com.

And today, we heard about a new recipe: king cake vodka Jello shots.

Recipe from the good folks at BlackenedOut.com:

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