Rum is the chosen spirit of Palace Café’s Black Duck bar. Sugarcane has been an integral part of the south Louisiana economy and culture for more than 200 years, when the Jesuit priests first brought sugarcane to Louisiana in 1751. The site of the first successful cane production was in downtown New Orleans, on Baronne Street, just steps away from where you are sitting. Nearly fifty years later, on what is currently Audubon Park, Etienne de Bore was successful in creating granulated sugar. Though, he wasn’t the first in history to complete this feat, he was deemed the first to do it in an economically feasible manner.