re: Who has the best boudin in NOLA?

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When they brought it to Lafayette, it doomed the place. Is all the food as bad as the boudin of course it wasn't but it was the eye test that wasn't passed and the place never recovered.

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I've never eaten at Cochon. I've enjoyed Butcher a number of times, but I bought some andouille from there that was downright awful. I posted about it some years ago and recall another poster had the same experience. It had a very strange unappealing flavor.

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When they brought it to Lafayette, it doomed the place. Is all the food as bad as the boudin of course it wasn't but it was the eye test that wasn't passed and the place never recovered.

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Pretty sure you don't know all the facts. Cochon didn't fail in Lafayette because of the poor food quality or taste. The menu consisted of old Cajun-style meals that your grandma would cook on Sundays ... smothered rabbit, roasted chicken, braised pork shoulder, ribeye roast, shrimp in a butter sauce, collard greens and tasso, wild grain dirty rice, etc. It didn't succeed because the locals were not gonna pay $21.95 for a smothered rabbit entree' since you could get the same plate lunch at T-Coons or Dwyer's for $9.95 and a larger serving. Link was trying to sell Cajun food to Cajuns who cook the same meals at home at a fraction of the cost. That restaurant model works in New Orleans because of the tourists and locals who want to eat Cajun style meals (i.e. K-Paul's RIP ) Cochon's boudin was decent and edible; however, at the time (2011) you could buy better boudin in Lafayette at a hundred different places for $1 per link.