I love this place. Cheap drinks in the perfect dive bar environment. I've been many times, but I was prompted to review tonight because of the awesome music they were playing tonight. MEGA read more

It's a Dive bar and lives up to it. If smoke is not your thing avoid this place. If you are looking for a quiet place to talk, Nope. If felons creep you out you may want to pass this place up. You never know what you will get when you walk in except for cheep as hell drinks. If you just want to tie one on, your home read more

Basic drinks, basic prices. Bartenders are friendly, and the vibe is low key. Solid neighborhood bar!

I'll never forget my first trip to Ms. Mae's. I walked in and was immediately at home among the stumbling, slurring mix of bikers, burn-outs, might-be prostitutes, and college students. A girl I sort of knew came careening towards me. She swung one arm over my shoulders and with the other, gently sloshed her vodka tonic down the front of my shirt. "Listen, listen, listen," she said in a drunken lisp. "You be careful--the drinks here may only be $1, but they don't f*ck around. You hear me? I said they don't fffffff----," she trailed off as she ran to the bathroom. During the years I lived in New Orleans, this was where my friends and I did our most serious drinking. Most nights started and ended with a trip to Ms. Mae's. The doormen knew us by name, and Ms. Mae herself was the coolest woman in the joint at any given time. Whether the place was packed on a Thursday night at 10 pm, or down to the last survivors and early starters at 10 am, you knew you were in for a good time when you hit the corner of Magazine and Napoleon. Still not convinced? How's this--I've been roofied here, and still consider it the happiest place on earth. read more

The Club, Ms Mae's. Cheap as sh*t, rough around the edges, dirty, used-up, full of drunks of all ages, host of many-a forgotten night and many-an unforgettable night, sort of the bar correlation of gonorrhea, awesome area, smokey, creepy gambling machines, creepy people hanging out outside, exceeds its unassuming name. In a word: Ooohhhhhh. Make way for Ms Mae's. It'll stick with you. read more

The employees and the customers are always good to me here,, without fail. I never miss hangin' out here when in NOLA. Ya may have a noisy drunk making a scene, young coed chatting,, friends meeting friends,, locals jus' hangin' out,,, it's quite a place. It's always packed. read more

Rico always crash his bicycle when he leave Ms. Mae's. Cheaps alcohol shot are good cuz Rico don't have one million yet and nobody pay me for gorgeousness yet. Bar men here are very nice to Rico. Sometimes I find the sex here with crazy tattoo girl. I give five star if I got the sex everytime. read more

I presume this is a "de rigueur" first time stop for any visitor to NOLA, as my friends gently insisted I make this my first bar visit fresh off the bus. I've been in some dives lo these many years, and this place varied little from what I have come to expect. In fact, for a place that has a reputation for seediness, it was in fact relatively clean. Maybe because it was a Tuesday night in late March, and there were maybe 30 people inside the bar at 11 pm. Being a boy, I don't really care about bar restroom cleanliness in general...as long as the plumbing works. The bathroom was functional and had adequate supplies. The bartender was courteous and had a decently heavy hand whilst pouring my bourbon and cokes. (Evan green is the well bourbon there.) The place is famous for its cheap drinks, and it is true: less than ten bucks (tips included) and you can cop a decent "starter buzz." One mildly disconcerting item about the place, however. A friend of mine warned me that a few people at Miss Mae's like to "try to start something." I kept this in mind on my second trip to the bathroom...as I walked past a couple sitting at a table, the male turned to me and said "EXCUUUSE ME??!!" I seriously doubt I came within even 6 inches of getting near him in this small bar, and I never interrupt a conversation between any man (friend or stranger) and a woman. I said to myself, Self, he might be trying to pick a fight with you. I simply said sorry and moved on quickly. Any first-timers/newbs should keep this in mind while visiting Miss Mae's. Enjoy the vibe, and don't fall for the haters. read more

One of my favorite bars in the city, the main reason is because its CHEAP. This is one of the few places in town where you can get a longneck for $1.50. The atmosphere is always out there if you know what I mean and the later it gets the more out there it gets. I like that they have outdoor seating like many of the bars have these days since the indoor smoking ban. They often have a food truck nearby also to get your grub on. This is one of my regular stops when I am in the area. read more

A classic dive bar located on the corner of Magazine and Napoleon. They have really cheap drinks, and a good selection at that. Its filled with mostly locals and friendly staff and some video games on the back wall. It is pretty dimly lit with booths for seating and lots of standing room and there is a pool table. Fun for a casual and low key evening, or to start your night before heading to the quarter after having dinner on Magazine St. read more

The bartender yelled insults at people choosing songs at the Jukebox and then proceeded to yell gay slurs when songs came on. I was disgusted by the ignorant shit coming out of the mouth of employees that work here and was incredibly put off by the environment that was nondiverse and unwelcoming. read more

I am a local in New Orleans. I live in the neighborhood. I had never been to Ms. Mae's. I went there with a birthday party on the evening of 2/1/18. The bartender was joking with me. She was actually pretty rude. So,I started joking back. She told me that I could give her $10 to stay or leave. The bouncer backed her up. I left. This is the most horrible bar on Magazine Street. Some good alternatives are Dat Dog and The Bulldog. They'll treat you right there. read more

FIRST AND FOREMOST, MS. MAE'S IS NOT CLEAN, QUIET, OR CLASSY, THERE ARE NO TABLES EVER AVAILABLE, AND THE BARTENDERS ARE ALWAYS ANGRY AND YELL AT YOU, SO YOU'VE BEEN WARNED. However, Ms. Mae's, Ms. Mae's, Ms. Mae's, oh how I love thee so. We go every year as part of our "Uptown Pub Crawl" during Jazz Fest, and it's one of the places I look forward to the most. Ms Mae's is a true jewel. $1 well drinks and open 24 hours. What more can you ask for? The greatest people watching ever? Oh, they've got that too! If a smoky, might as well be dirt floored, crap box isn't your cup of tea, take your $1 drinks, cause you might as well get 5, across the street to the bench on the median or hell, just sit outside on the curb and watch all the people come and go. You might just get an interesting life story out of one of them. Oh did I mention that it has $1 drinks and is open 24 HOURS?? read more

As a dive bar, this is it. Drinks are unbelievable cheap. Bartender was great. Lots of beer and spirit options. They definitely need to fix the bathroom which makes you feel like you contracted a disease when you enter it. They need more food options other than potato chips to match the level of drinking that goes on here. If you love dive bars, don't miss this one...but bring a buddy in case you need to be carried out. read more

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One of my favorites!!! I've been going to this place for yearrrrrrssss!! I've never had a bad experience. I even met Ms. Mae once, lol. It never closes, it's divey, has a jukebox, cheap liquor, and air hockey. I always make a trip here whenever I come home. Some of my best memories and nights have been here!! read more

The Club - Ms. Mae's. Walking up past the giant old Dixie Beer ad painted onto the side of the building, you stroll under the old wraparound balcony and into a smoky, friendly, never-know-who-you-might-see corner bar. The space stretches back under ornate coffered ceilings, the paint flaking and half gone as if it hasn't been touched since the building was erected over 100 years ago. You order an Abita and sit down to wait for friends next to the cigarette machine. A couple next to you is half hidden by the lady's giant purple purse. The bartenders are jovial. Ms. Mae herself sits at the far end of the bar, smoking and laughing, talking to someone, her worn blonde hair piled high. The place is full at this time of night. The drinks are cheap - 1-2 bucks. And the plastic cups are heavy on the liquor. The crowd is about half black, half white, give or take. The pool players in the back negotiate with the knots of law students and townies in plaid. The tables are full, some game is on, and the bouncer is explaining an old photo on the wall as a foreign exchange student fumbles for his passport at the door. You step on, realizing the men's bathroom smells atrocious. Your friends arrive, weaving their way through the haze and the glare of the gaming machines. Ms. Mae reminds a girl not to put her drink on the pool table. read more

Ms Mae's is the kind of place you go to if you want to get away from the tourists that plague New Orleans. This bar is a local favorite and to be honest, it is now a personal favorite of mine as well. Upon looking at the outside of the bar, it looks like any old, local bar that you could really find in any old town. However, once you walk inside, it is clear that Ms Mae's is a dive bar lover's dream. It's dark and smokey, has beer, has games and always has a large group of local men hanging out and shootin' the breeze. People are so caught up in the lights and atmosphere of clubs that it seems like they don't even remember what it is like to just relax, have a beer and talk about life. Ms Mae's is exactly what people really need these days. If anyone says that this bar is not nice enough or needs to be classed up, than they have no business being there. Ms Mae's is famous and for good reason. The people are incredibly friendly and they have everything you need to have a good time without paying up the wazoo. Good people, cheap alcohol and a haven away from the busy French Quarter?! Count me in. read more

I like Ms Mae's. It's one of those cash only places that New Orleans is known for. Get used to it. Tank's Wild Air Hockey Tournament, mostly known as TWAT, is a blast! WARNING! INCREDIBLY CHEAP DRINKS CAN BE BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH! Forgive me, but I forget which night is college night. Maybe it's Thursday. I'm not a student at all, but the bartender gave me the student price anyway...which I believe was half price on well drinks. I got stupid drunk that like on $8.00. Typical? I think I'm not the only one who's experienced this type of blessing brought forth by the wizards at Maes. Also, the door guy...he's a sweet heart, and he's there to make sure you have a good time, and stay out of trouble. Be kind to him, and the bartenders, because they will ALWAYS be there. read more

I've only ever stopped here mid-afternoon while driving out-of-town visitors on the uptown portion of MY city tour. We never finish the drink there, part of the fun surprising the out of town guest by paying for a round of fancy vodka cocktails with a $20, and then taking the drink out the front door. Plus, it's too smoky to stay any longer than that. read more

"The Club" HAHAHA Ms. Mae's is only a club in the sense that lots of people do coke in the bathroom. I have seen shady dealings go on by the air hockey table. The cheapest drinks in New Orleans are located here for sure. I have ended my night and certainly my memory with shots of Cabo Wabo for $3 or $4 bucks a piece. I can't remember---that's why it was awesome. The pool table has a constant haze of wine flavored Black and Mild smoke lingering in the air. I've seen more than one stick broken. So many so that a sign is taped to the pool table stating the price of a new stick. Ms. Mae herself sometimes comes into the bar and gets treated like royalty by the drunken regulars. I often see people asleep on the bench outside of Ms. Mae's on Sunday mornings. The place is filthy good fun. read more

I'm happy to have been coming here for a long time. Way before Rob Ryan made it famous. It's dirty and smelly. Get over it. It's REAL nola. Bartenders are tough. Patrons are weary from work and want to get hammered. Juke box is jamming. Very few tourists. Well drinks are TWO BUCKS. Come here. Be happy. Get drunk. Fall in love with nola (again). read more

Ms Mae's - This is about the only thing that you need to know. - Dive Bars Near Me - New Orleans, Louisiana

Five stars in principle, one star in practice. It gets an A-OK because it's a 24-hour-a-day-365-day-a-year-10-year-a-decade kind of institution, and that deserves some respect. But I'd rather pay 4-6x more for my well drinks elsewhere. And that's... saying something. read more

Cheap drinks, great location and open 24 hours....what's there not to love?? This is a bar so people will be smoking but it's also a great hole in the wall with incredibily cheap drinks. Vodka - $3, PBR - $1.50, Crown - $4....awesome sauce!! Definitely stop in for a drink if you're in the neighborhood. We were there on a Tuesday night and a group of Christmas carolers came in to sing to everyone. Quite a nice treat and a huge surprise to everyone. read more

Ms Mae's - Dive Bars Near Me - New Orleans, Louisiana

After a late night at Tipitina's, we took a 5 minute walk to Ms. Mae's. It was 2:00 am. Had a rum and coke and my wife had an Abita Peach - drinks are inexpensive! We played foosball...don't put your drink at the edge of the table, after 4 sips and blocking her goal - my wife dropped her drink. Good environment after a night out. read more

Ms Mae's - Ms. Mae's 3:30 am Friday night - Dive Bars Near Me - New Orleans, Louisiana

On the cheap side of inexpensive. Dollar well drinks straight from the well. What you get is what you pay for in this very dive bar. I had my first experience at Ms. Mae's on a Tuesday night before catching a movie at the Prytania. The crowd was a bit sketchy, but we did get to watch a very entertaining round of pool played by locals. Great bar for seeing the melting pot of NOLA first hand. read more

Usually, I won't give dives more than three stars because they're dives... But there's just something about this nasty old bar that makes me a fan. Yes, there's horrible music. Yes, the bathrooms are pretty bad. Yes, you'll definitely smell like the bar after five minutes. Yes, there are loud, obnoxious patrons. And yes, you'll have a blast if you go with a good group of friends. This one night in particular, I was having an off-day. So, we go to Ms. Mae's and I order a drink. Wells are $2, and I hand the bartender a $20 (since that was all I had). He gave me the wrong change and I told him immediately, but since I had my wallet out, he thought I put a bill in there and was trying to get money off of him. I was pissed, to say the least. I sat back down with my friends, and I complained to them. Being the type of friends they are, they talked to another bartender about the situation. This guy got me another drink, with any liquor I wanted (Tanqueray? yes, please!) Seriously, this was the best gin and tonic I've ever had. Later that night, after the first bartender counted his drawer, he came to my table apologizing and gave me my change back. He could have blown it off, he could have taken the money, but he found me and apologized. This speaks volumes about the type of people that work here. read more

Cool place horrible workers very rude the lady bartender was absolutely the worst I'd hate to come here when it's that time of the month for her. Only redeeming quality is that the drinks were dirt cheap, taste that way too read more

Super weird? Yes. No ambiance to speak of? Definitely. Cheap drinks? FOR SURE. (Note: if you check in on foursquare for the first time you get a $1 double). Ms. Mae's is the kind of place you go to when it's 5am and you still want to party but you're not sure where to go. That being said, they have a pretty sweet air hockey table. read more

Literally fuck this place. First time to New Orleans and the bartender was so rude. He told us to take off or beads as soon as we came in. Said they weren't allowed. Then didn't know anything about the local draft beers I asked about. Didn't acknowledge us after we paid it just sucked. And it's awful because we had it recommend to us and it was the worst experience I've ever had and I'm in the service industry so I honestly would've tipped him really well but he was so rude. read more

Kinda dark and not too clean. Pre covid. Great hours, convenient location and good prices. Drinks not bad.

This used to be my go-to bar to start and end nights in college. A little less so after graduating and now I find myself barely frequenting my once hallowed stomping grounds. After the sale of the bar to new management, the prices went up a dollar ($1 singles to $2 and $2 doubles to $3) but it's still easily the cheapest place to get drunk in the city as every drink is basically 99% booze and a splash of mixer. The beer still remains dirt cheap. They have inserted an air hockey table in place of an old pool table and upgraded to a digital jukebox (WHY?!). The addition of booths in the back of the bar are a welcome sight and long overdue and provide spaces for groups that can't find a spot at the tables up front. The mixed crowd that used to be so appealing has become too young and lacking in diversity, although you still can't go wrong mingling with people here after the 3am hour. The bartenders are still as friendly and fast as ever (even on extremely packed nights I never waited more than 5 mins for a drink). Thursday nights are still college nights and will be packed around the 10-11 oclock hour. Your best bet is to make this one of your late late night stops before heading home or get here early in the night to pregame. Note: To those still claiming to see Ms. Mae at the bar, you may have a future in dealing with the great beyond as Miss Mae has left the bar and this world (god rest her soul) for quite a while now. read more

Just meh. The mixed drinks were cheap and strong-ish, but I'm not a fan of a G&T served in what seemed like a dixie cup size-wise. (I'm gauging this against the Rendezvous Tavern.) We were there earlier during the week and sat outside. The crowd seemed to be a mix of regulars and a group there for a birthday party. Otherwise, the vibe wasn't all that interesting. It's dive-y, but I don't know that I would call this a dive bar. There weren't enough resident alcoholics earlier in the evening for this place to be an interesting dive bar. Overall, a solid place to grab cheap drinks, but not a place I would hang out...at least not for day or early-evening drinking. read more

Corner of Napoleon and Magazine, down the street from Tip's, also known as Miss Mae's or just as "the Club", is friendly and cheap- $1.00 drinks that can't be beat anywhere in New Orleans. This is your basic NOLA bar atmosphere, the people are nice inside and its a very diverse crowd, open 24 hours. A very nice place to chat and hang out. read more

Fantastic experience strong drinks and sarcastic bartender. Shelly is exactly who you would expect as a bartender at a local bar. Look your a tourist, he's going to talk some trash. Strong drinks, fair prices. All the negative reviews must come from people that don't understand how dive bars work. If you're not local and can roll with the punches for a couple of rounds, pun intended, you don't understand how it works. By the time I was closing out my tab I was treated like an old friend. These people deal with tons of tourist "getting crazy." On vacation, they don't need it and want you to move on. Once they realize you are just trying to hang out and appreciate the experience they will give you mutual respect. read more

Mae's is the best deal in New Orleans, and probably the country. Also, it's open 24/7, so it's a great spot to go when you've spent too much at other bars and they've started closing (or kicking you out). I hear they recently doubled their prices so a well drink is going to cost you $2... no joke. Favorites are: $8 premium doubles, any time, day or night read more

The worst bar ever. Service sucks. Smells like shit. Cheap drinks and air hockey are the only good parts. Music typically is chosen by people who listen to death metal or techno or both. All in all, a classic establishment, the definition of let's drink till sunrise. Who knows how they do it, but people love it. read more

Ms Mae's - Rob Ryan!!! - Dive Bars Near Me - New Orleans, Louisiana

Great hole in the wall. If you're down magazine and need a place to recuperate from all the boutiques and urban renewal going on outside, definitely pop into this little gem. It isn't a fancy place so you have to be open minded to hang out here for a couple drinks. There is a lot of stuff going on, with the gambling machines, guys talking about losing touch with people they hung out with in prison and the ambient smell of Kool cigarettes being sucked down to the filter. Great neighborhood vibe. Definite reminder of what makes NOLA so unique. Doesn't hurt that it's cheap. cash only. If this isn't your speed you should try Bouligny Tavern. read more

24/7 bar with a pool table. BAR OF MY DREAMS!! Definitely go here when you're in town. If you stick around Magazine street you'll have fun.

The four of us enjoyed ourselves at this bar before a show at Tipitina's. Drinks were only $2 and we were so happy to have found a spot with great deals so close to the venue. The bartender was personable and fun to chat with. My boyfriend and I even played a nice game of air hockey while we were there. Hoping make it back someday. read more

Not the cleanest place you could walk into within the city of New Orleans, and definitely not the dirtiest. Very chill atmosphere. Few pool tables, a pinball game, gambling machines, and cheap drinks!!!; everything you could be looking for in an establishment in the uptown area. read more