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re: Spinoff Thread: Worst "Cajun/Louisiana" Restaurant Experience
Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:00 am to CptRusty
Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:00 am to CptRusty
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If you're foolish enough to order anything labeled as "cajun" in a restaurant located anywhere outside of a 30 mile radius from Lafayette, then you get what you deserve.
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Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:04 am to LasVegasTiger
quote:yep. Now i have had the largest crawfish in my life there but it was seasoned weird. Like they boiled the crawfish then dumped the season on them while they sat in an icechest.
Steamboat Bills? Yeah, that place is always packed.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:05 am to LasVegasTiger
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Steamboat Bills? Yeah, that place is always packed.
Since Jean Lafites closed that's one of the few seafood places in town. The étouffée is pretty good, everything else is just ok. Jean Lafites was really good IMO.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:05 am to MadMaxwell
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Just a public service announcement for all Louisiana residents, according to a restaurant in Virginia, we've been pronouncing Tchoupitoulas wrong this entire time.
Not surpising. Everyone from New Orleans pronounces "room" and "house" wrong too
Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:06 am to meauxjeaux2
Outside of 1 or 2 places Laf is a huge disappointment when looking for home cooked Cajun food. On a recent family trip to Nachitoches my mother ordered the seafood gumbo at Mamas. I know it's NLa, but there's no excuse for the disgusting broth like liquid that they serve. I couldn't believe it because I've actually heard descent reviews.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:09 am to its1999
There are a couple 1st and 2nd generation California's from New Orleans that are family ran "hood spots" in Los Angeles that serve good Louisiana cuisine. Me being being originally from Louisiana I had high standards and they didn't really disappoint.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:09 am to meauxjeaux2
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the worst is Boutins on Bluebonnet.
Did they ever close?
Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:12 am to its1999
I don't order "Cajun" food from restaurants. It just doesn't feel right, and I don't trust them 
Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:13 am to 805tiger
best cajun food i've ever had came from Alex.
No lie.
No lie.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:14 am to meauxjeaux2
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that seafood place off the interstate in Lake Charles that's always packed. Been there twice. I don't get the appeal. Maybe just opportunistic location?
Steamboat Bill's? I thought that place was pretty good, but I got a fried seafood platter and its hard to frick that up.
But like someone else said, I never order Cajun/Creole food from anywhere out side of South Louisiana and select places in South Mississippi.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:15 am to its1999
Just checking in to the thread to show my internet Louisiana bonafides.
St. James Parish > anywhere in California
am I doing it right?
St. James Parish > anywhere in California
am I doing it right?
Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:26 am to Rohan2Reed
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St. James Parish > anywhere in California
That Vietnamese "catfish" from Hymels, though.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:40 am to meauxjeaux2
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that seafood place off the interstate in Lake Charles that's always packed. Been there twice. I don't get the appeal. Maybe just opportunistic location?
it sucks. I don't understand it. Mediocre food at best with high prices.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:43 am to fr33manator
Best outside La, Gumbo at Floyds in Boumont Tx. Dark roux, blue crab meat added uncooked into the steaming hot gumbo in a flat bowl, good rice, and good French bread, fantastic.
Worst in side La, Landrys , all of them. Embarassing as they trap a ton of tourists that don't know.
Worst in side La, Landrys , all of them. Embarassing as they trap a ton of tourists that don't know.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:46 am to BOSCEAUX
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Since Jean Lafites closed that's one of the few seafood places in town.
Pat's of Henderson
Seafood Palace
Boiling Point
LeBleu's Landing
and just about every local place you can get gumbo or étouffée that is better than Steamboat Bill's
Posted on 7/28/15 at 10:05 am to its1999
A very long time ago, I ordered a "New Orleans BBQ Shrimp" app in a restaurant in FL somewhere around Santa Rosa Island or on the way there. I was served a generous bowl of flavorless boiled shrimp with a store brand bbq sauce poured over them. Took me a while to get over the shock and send them back.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 10:11 am to its1999
Cajun food is great and unique to your region. A cuisine born of many influences and honed by the availablity of ingredients of the land. One of the most recognized ethnic foods in this country and a rightful source of pride to those of you who inhabit the area and call it your own. That said, it's not fricking hard to make. If you can stir a roux and caramelize an onion you are 3/4 of the way there. There are bad resturants all over the place. There are bad Cajun resturants. But a chef from Hoboken NJ with any skill whatsoever and a small amount of research should be able to recreate all of the beloved Cajun stables. He/she would not even have pass within a 500 mile radius of Lafayette.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 10:17 am to Boondock544
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the worst is Boutins on Bluebonnet.
Did they ever close?
Yep, they are closed now.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 10:17 am to AppyTiger
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But a chef from Hoboken NJ with any skill whatsoever and a small amount of research should be able to recreate all of the beloved Cajun stables.
Exactly right. To say otherwise is akin to saying you can't get a decent salmon dish outside of the Pacific Northwest or Maritime Atlantic.
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