It was my favorite haunt -- for a number of reasons -- back in the late 90s when I lived in NOLA; visited for the first time in 8 years this past weekend and while the atmosphere and service was still great, Lafitte's main attraction, the piano player Johnny Gordon, who passed away in 2008, has been replaced by an absolutely terrible woman who berates people who pull up their stools past some imaginary line around the piano, or who talk/sing too loudly....like that is not the point??? Johnny encouraged all to participate, didn't care where we sat around his piano and we all gladly fed him our money when it was "gator time"...I regret having given this hideous woman even a one dollar tip.