New Orleans Hotel Collection Sake Hop

A collection of New Orleans hotels are banding together to host the second annual New Orleans Hotel Collection Sake Hop to benefit the Southern Food and Beverage Museum.

This year’s event has grown, taking place on Tuesday, August 16 at 5  p.m. to coincide with the city’s Happy Tuesday internet campaign. Sake Hop will enlist the assistance of regional television news personalities as celebrity hosts, offering up delightfully cooling cocktail creations created especially for the event by bartenders of the Collection. In addition to sake tastings, specialty cocktails will feature Big O Ginger Liqueur, a sponsor of the event.

The participating French Quarter bars are: 21st Amendment at the Hotel Mazarin; Vive! Bar at Hotel Le Marais; Bourbon O! at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel; May Baily’s Place at the Dauphine Orleans; and Patrick’s Bar Vin at the Hotel Mazarin, where the event will conclude. 

The cocktail journey starts at any of the participating bars. where participants may also receive a Sake Hop passport which will be validated at each visited location. Participants who turn in a completed passport will be entered into a drawing for great prizes including a two-night stay at one of the New Orleans Hotel Collection’s hotels. To be eligible for the drawing, completed passport cards must be submitted at Patrick’s Bar Vin no later than 8 p.m. The drawing will be held promptly at 8 p.m.

Participants will stroll through the French Quarter while enjoying complimentary sake tastings at each of the five featured bars and chatting with celebrity bartenders. Sip specially created, Asian-inspired cocktails featuring the Big O Ginger Liqueur available for sale at each location. Great door prizes will be offered to participants – including hotel stays, by visiting each location and getting the Sake Hop passport stamped. Additionally, Sake Hop participants may vote for favorite bartenders – the top voted bartender will be named the Sake Hop Champion and receive a prize.

Sake Hoppers may visit http://sakehop.com for additional information.