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re: Hot take: Chris' Poboys (Pinhook Location, Lafayette) is best restaurant gumbo
Posted on 9/28/16 at 4:36 pm to Sisyphus
Posted on 9/28/16 at 4:36 pm to Sisyphus
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With Oakgrove Gumbo Base, you get everything you need to make a wonderful tasting roux in under an hour! For a delicious gumbo simply add your choice of meat or seafood and rice to this seasoning blend for the hearty soup of the bayou land in only 30 minutes
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Posted on 9/28/16 at 5:03 pm to CAD703X
A friend of mine used to use the Oak Grove base years ago. It was serviceable, probably because of the ingredients he added. I've never used it. I've seen it on the shelves, though.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 4:52 am to CAD703X
Found most NOLA restaurants going through the motions on Gumbo. I make 4 gallons a week. Its one thing to make 4 gallons a week and its anther thing to get someone who works for you to make 50 gallons a week the same way you make 4 gallons.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 5:03 am to Goldfinger
Oak Grove gumbo base is fine, the gumbo mix is shite. The base is just darkened flour and spices. Add some trinity, chicken, good smoked sausage, your usual seasonings and you have a serviceable gumbo with little effort or time.
This post was edited on 9/29/16 at 5:07 am
Posted on 9/29/16 at 5:37 am to Prosecuted Collins
Best I've had was at the little cafe/sandwich shop at Coushatta in Kinder. Dark, flavorful, and perfect. I couldn't believe it.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 7:35 am to Sisyphus
Dookie Chase has great gumbos.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 12:31 pm to Martini
Chris' gumbo is good.
Not as good as my Mother In Law's, but good when I want some fast at night in the fall months.
Hub City Diner's gumbo is decent as well.
Not as good as my Mother In Law's, but good when I want some fast at night in the fall months.
Hub City Diner's gumbo is decent as well.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 12:43 pm to moon
Cup of gumbo and half a special at chris' is a damn fine meal. Guillory's on Pinhook is also very good. Hard to believe- the gumbo on the buffet at the Amelia Belle in Morgan City is fantastic.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 1:19 pm to Gris Gris
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A friend of mine used to use the Oak Grove base years ago. It was serviceable
I thought I remember you talking about how terrible it was.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 1:42 pm to Prosecuted Collins
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Got any challengers?
Yep. Roberto's restaurant on river road in Sunshine, Louisiana. Best restaurant gumbo I've ever had.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 2:35 pm to mouton
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I thought I remember you talking about how terrible it was.
Possible I'm confusing it with something else, then. It was a very long time ago. By "serviceable", I mean I could eat enough of it to be nice, so that may not be the best word. Maybe it was another mix.
I have a friend who uses the Oak Grove jambalaya mix, but I've never had it. I've mailed it to her, though.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 2:35 pm to pochejp
I eat at RRR at least once a week. I'd have to say you were incorrect.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 2:41 pm to mouton
You're right, Mouton. Here's my post from 2011, though it was probably 10 years before that when I had it. 
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Oakgrove Smokehouse Gumbo BASE, NOT the MIXquote:
GRIS GRIS: Is awful. I had this when someone who is a good cook made it. It didn't taste like gumbo to me. No dark roux flavor. Was like a cross between a poorly made gumbo and some sort of bad chicken and sausage soup. I just don't get wasting the time to make gumbo with it, but it's a personal flavor and some folks apparently like it.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:27 pm to In The Know
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Hard to believe- the gumbo on the buffet at the Amelia Belle in Morgan City is fantastic.
if you lived in pentagon or kirby smith in the 1980s the cafeteria cooked up a *MEAN* batch of seafood gumbo.
they put it out in the eating area in the silver pot/heating thing (like you find soup in restaurants)
i would skip the entire line for regular food, grab a bowl, spoon and bottle of tabasco, and would help myself to 4-5 bowls of that.
it was so freaking good. i'd have a huge pile of crab claws on the napkin by the end.
i would literally fantasize about eating it during class in the mornings
*sigh* the good old days.
This post was edited on 9/29/16 at 3:28 pm
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:49 pm to Prosecuted Collins
Bon Creole's in New Iberia
Johnson's Boucaniere
Johnson's Boucaniere
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:51 pm to NIH
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Johnson's Boucaniere
White Beans and sausage plate lunch with creamed green pees and a damn good crunchless potato salad.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 6:05 pm to Janky
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Charley G's
Is my favorite
Posted on 9/29/16 at 6:10 pm to yellowfin
They got good sammiches. Don't know about the gumbo.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 9:58 pm to Jimmy2shoes
Chris' gumbo is very good and so is Prejean's but if you want the best gumbo in all the restaurant world then head over to DARK ROUX way down Kaliste Salom Rd past Ambassador Caffery is hands down the BEST GUMBO in all of Louisiana!
Posted on 9/30/16 at 6:45 am to Jimmy2shoes
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They got good sammiches.
Between places like Pop's, Zydeco, and Olde Tyme I'm not sure how Chris' stays in business. The sandwiches aren't on the same level
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