A landlocked Yacht Club built from Mid-City survival stories: a neighborhood bar with reclaimed-wood bones, park-league energy, and food serious enough to make the game the second reason to stay.
The joke in the name has roots: this is a landlocked Yacht Club in a neighborhood that flooded. Reclaimed cypress doors and floorboards from damaged Mid-City homes give the space a physical sense of survival, without making it feel like a museum.
The layout supports more than one game at a time, but the real draw is the social current.
Saints games, post-league gatherings, and a crowd with neighborhood ties make this a place where watching is a shared activity rather than background noise.
Mid‑City Yacht Club · 440 S. St. Patrick Street
A place to come back to.
01 · The name
A yacht club. No yachts.
You don’t need a boat to belong here.
But a boat is how the name began. After Katrina flooded the old Extra Innings bar, a friend passing by in a rescue boat joked that they ought to call it the Mid‑City Yacht Club.
The joke stayed. Then came the work.
02 · The wood
The neighborhood is in the wood.
Ben and Stefanie Markey joined with M.J. and Jeremy Sauer to rebuild.
Floorboards from the Sauers’ flooded home became the bar top and ceiling. Discarded cypress doors from a funeral home became wainscoting.
On June 21, 2007, the doors opened. Pieces of the neighborhood had become a place to gather.
03 · The park
The game ends. The night doesn’t.
Across the street, St. Patrick Park supplied the next chapter.
Before the flood, kickball players had wished the old bar would open. After the rebuild, there was somewhere to go. Softball. Kickball. A short walk across the street.
The room had been rebuilt. Now people could fill it.
04 · 2020
Then the regulars came back for takeout.
In 2020, gathering became complicated again.
Customers came for crawfish fries and tuna melts. A restaurant permit allowed patio service. Regulars returned in masks.
This time, keeping the place going meant changing how people used it. The bar adapted. Its customers met it halfway.
05 · The corner
A place to come back to.
The name remembers the water.
The wood remembers the houses.
But the story isn’t only what this corner survived. It’s what people made here afterward: a place to finish a game, share a meal, and come back to.
Mid‑City Yacht Club. No boat required.
Mid-City Yacht Club · New Orleans
01 / 05 · THE NAME
S. St. Patrick Street · Mid-City, New Orleans
A yacht club.
No yachts.
Illustration
How the name began
Katrina floods the old bar.
“They should name that placethe Mid City Yacht Club.”
The joke stayed.
Then came the work.
02 / 05 · THE WOOD
Floorboards · the Sauers’ flooded home
Bar top. Ceiling.
Cypress doors · a funeral home
Wainscoting.
The bar
June 21, 2007 · The doors open
Pieces of the neighborhood
became a place to gather.
03 / 05 · THE PARK
Across the street · St. Patrick Park
Softball. Kickball.
Before the flood: a bar that was never open
After the rebuild: somewhere to go
A short walkacross the street.
The patio at night
The room hadbeen rebuilt.
Now peoplecould fill it.
04 / 05 · 2020
2020
Gathering gets complicated again
Takeout, 2020
Crawfish fries.
Tuna melts.
A restaurant permit allowed patio service
Patio service.
The bar, roped off
Regulars returnedin masks.
One basket. One table.
The bar adapted.
Its customers met it halfway.
05 / 05 · THE CORNER
Back to the corner
The name remembers
the water.
The wood remembers
the houses.
Finish a game.
Share a meal.
Come back.
Mid-City Yacht Club
No boat required.
440 S. St. Patrick Street · New Orleans
02 / Food & drink
The food gets more creative than the room lets on.
The surprise at Mid-City Yacht Club is a kitchen willing to cross categories. Local shrimp ends up inside a burger; pulled-pork barbecue lands on a shrimp taco; mussels arrive in craft-beer broth; crawfish rides on cheese fries. This is improvisational New Orleans bar food, built for repeat visits rather than menu theater.
Curious bar food / four Mid-City originals
The useful test for a sports-bar kitchen is how much of the menu you would order with no game on at all. MCYC clears it: local seafood, real craft-beer cooking, and weirdly convincing combinations keep the food in the memory.
Coastal burger / Yacht Club BurgerHand-formed burger + local shrimp
House fried tortillas, topped with homemade cheese sauce, veggie black beans, jalapeno, habanero crema, pico de gallo, and green onions • Add house-made Chorizo, shredded pork, or beef debris - Small +$4.50 | Large +$5.50
3 egg burrito with potato, onion, red bell pepper, jalapeno & cheddar cheese rolled in a grilled flour tortilla • Add House Made Chorizo | Add Applewood Smoked Bacon | Add Smothered in Pork Green Chili
Grilled flour tortilla topped with rice, vegetarian black beans, two eggs to order and habenero crema • Add Housemade Chorizo | Add Applewood Smoked Bacon
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Big Wave
Kona Brewing Hawaii; American blonde/golden ale; 4.4% ABV; 21 IBU
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Skater Aid
Gnarly Barley Brewing; Italian pilsner; 4.2% ABV
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Guinness Draught
Guinness; Irish dry stout; 4.2% ABV; 45 IBU
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Masopust
Skeeta Hawk Brewing; dark lager; 5.5% ABV
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Holy Roller
Urban South Brewery; hazy/New England IPA; 6.3% ABV; 60 IBU
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IPA
Lagunitas Brewing Company; American IPA; 6.2% ABV; 51 IBU
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Jucifer
Gnarly Barley Brewing; hazy/New England IPA; 6% ABV; 80 IBU
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Belgian White
Blue Moon Brewing Company; wheat/witbier; 5.4% ABV; 9 IBU
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Envie
Parish Brewing Co.; American pale ale; 5% ABV; 42 IBU
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Paradise Park
Urban South Brewery; American light lager; 4.5% ABV; 10 IBU
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Canebrake
Parish Brewing Co.; American pale wheat beer; 4.9% ABV
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Specials, pop-ups & historical menus
Dated events, older menu photos and promotional listings. Confirm any recurring offer or pop-up before planning around it.
Drink special1 categories · 3 listings+
Recurring specials3 listings+
Recurring specials — menu observations and prices in USD
Item
Description / serving
Price as listed (USD)
Source & date
Domestic bottles
Tuesday–Friday, 11am–5:30pm; live site displayed October 6–9, 2026
$3.00
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Date as labeled by source
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Well spirits
Tuesday–Friday, 11am–5:30pm; live site displayed October 6–9, 2026
$4.00
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Date as labeled by source
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Call spirits
Tuesday–Friday, 11am–5:30pm; live site displayed October 6–9, 2026
$5.00
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Menu notes & original sources9 sources+
Online menu is a source snapshot accessed 2026-10-04; undated items are not proof of same-day availability. Prices are USD. Unpublished prices are null, not free.
Drink HTML menu has no prices; draft/bottle serving sizes come from the live verified Untappd menu. Five weekend brunch dishes have no listed prices.
Untappd search-cache draft list was stale; live cloud-browser list was used. Untappd menu update stamps omit the year.
Some beer specifications differ between official HTML and Untappd: Corona Extra 4.6% vs 4.5%; Ghost in the Machine 8.5% vs 8%; Who Dat 5.04% vs 5%; White Claw Natural Lime/Raspberry 5% vs 4.5%. Labels may be out of date; recipe/batch not independently verified.
Official linked Grubhub page ultimately returned Error 410 / page does not exist in the cloud browser; delivery prices or delivery-only items could not be extracted.
Catering is included and explicitly labeled; catering prices are not single-serving bar prices.
verified venue-managed domestic menu ↗Wednesday, Dec 04, 10:34 AM (displayed, year not shown) · Date as labeled by sourceverified venue-managed domestic menu
