Click below to make reservations online. When it was founded in 1886, Royal Street, on which it sits, was the most fashionable and elegant street in the city - it still is today. The hotel's famed grandfather clock still chimes in the lobby, surrounded by glittering chandeliers, polished marble floors and gleaming brass appointments. Numerous authors, including William Faulkner, Eudora Welty and Truman Capote were frequent visitors, and the hotel has often appeared as a setting in American fiction, prompting the Friends of Libraries USA to designate the Monteleone a Literary Landmark.
Cuisine ranges from fine dining to casual fare.