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re: Spinoff Thread: Worst "Cajun/Louisiana" Restaurant Experience
Posted on 7/28/15 at 10:21 am to CptRusty
Posted on 7/28/15 at 10:21 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.
Spare me the Lafayette centrism. Something like 20% of Lafourche parish still speaks Cajun French, and it's more than 100 miles from Lafayette. Evangeline Parish clocks in around 25% CF speakers, and it's 60 miles from Laffy. Acadiana & the Cajun food heartland isn't quite as small as you think. East TX has a substantial population of legit ethnic Cajuns as well.
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Posted on 7/28/15 at 10:21 am to Tigertown in ATL
He's definitely not wrong, but most places don't take the time to actually learn how to recreate something in an authentic fashion. As a rule I don't order Cajun/Creole dishes when traveling because 1) I can't guarantee that it will be of any real quality and 2) I'd prefer to experience the local flavors anyway.
That being said, when I lived outside of LA I hunted down a few places that did LA cuisine and I was largely disappointed in all of them. I once had a jambalaya that was borderline soupy. Never again.
That being said, when I lived outside of LA I hunted down a few places that did LA cuisine and I was largely disappointed in all of them. I once had a jambalaya that was borderline soupy. Never again.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 10:25 am to Matisyeezy
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He's definitely not wrong, but most places don't take the time to actually learn how to recreate something in an authentic fashion
Crazy Cajuns in Birmingham, AL is the perfect example of this. We try every LA style place that pops up around here, and we are usually disappointed.
Just because you have beads on the wall and serve Abita doesn't make you cajun.
Stop steaming your crawfish and sprinkling tony's on the outside.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 10:27 am to Tigertown in ATL
I think a reasonably talented chef could do a good job. I think the issue may be more with the location of the restaurant and the palates of the customers. They are making the dishes close enough to LA foods to use the label, but not over the top because they think it may be too much for their own customers, at least in some cases, perhaps.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 10:27 am to its1999
Hole in the wall out in Elgin, IL had a jumbo-laya special one night. Wasn't going to order it, but my guess was it was Zatarain's with some cut up hot dogs in it.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 10:33 am to LSUGrad00
quote:they were the Piccadilly or Ryans of Cajun Cuisine. Glad to see them go.
Yep, they are closed now.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 11:05 am to Taurus
Acadiana in San Antonio, TX. Po-boy was served with cold, fried oysters...
Posted on 7/28/15 at 11:07 am to meauxjeaux2
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Yep, they are closed now.
they were the Piccadilly or Ryans of Cajun Cuisine. Glad to see them go.
yelp reviews of boutin's are pretty funny
Posted on 7/28/15 at 11:59 am to Matisyeezy
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most places don't take the time to actually learn how to recreate something in an authentic fashion.
Good point
or like GG said, they modify to try and hit local tastes and botch up.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 12:29 pm to hungryone
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Something like 20% of Lafourche parish still speaks Cajun French, and it's more than 100 miles from Lafayette. Evangeline Parish clocks in around 25% CF speakers, and it's 60 miles from Laffy.
I hear France has a pretty high francophone population as well, but those motherfrickers aren't cooking cajun food any more than the creoles in Lafourche.
Evangeline Parish is withing 30 miles from Lafayette parish, so they get a pass.
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East TX has a substantial population of legit ethnic Cajuns as well.
Lake Charles?
Posted on 7/28/15 at 12:41 pm to its1999
Went to this place called Infirmary in NYC a few weeks ago. It sucked my butt. I thought the owner was from southern Louisiana, but it turns out he was a one time resident of New Orleans.
We had a few appetizers which weren't good. I played it safe for the entree and got the blackened catfish with crawfish tails. The catfish had zero spice and the crawfish tails looked like tasteless little boogers.
We had a few appetizers which weren't good. I played it safe for the entree and got the blackened catfish with crawfish tails. The catfish had zero spice and the crawfish tails looked like tasteless little boogers.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 4:10 pm to LSUGrad00
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Boutins
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Yep, they are closed now.
The only thing I'll miss about that place is the Poche's plate lunches (located inside Boutins) that I would sometimes pick up on weekends. That being said, I haven't been there in about a year so I guess I won't really miss it that much.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 4:26 pm to Tigertown in ATL
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Tigertown in ATL
quote:Chef Marc is from NOLA. Mrs. Chef Ruth (source of the "Adele" name) is from SE Texas. Both are sweethearts.
Adele's
ETA: southwest... southeast...
This post was edited on 7/28/15 at 4:55 pm
Posted on 7/28/15 at 4:36 pm to CptRusty
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than the creoles in Lafourche.
No. Just stop. You're woefully under-informed about the historic settlement patterns in Acadiana, or of contemporary foodways across coastal LA. Some of the earliest actual Acadian (resettled people from Nova Scotia) settlers to Louisiana put down roots along Bayou Lafourche circa 1764. No one (black, white or otherwise; francophone or english, native american or post-oil boom "texiens") in Lafourche or Terrebonne uses the term Creole, nor does the present expression of indigenous food lean toward creole.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 5:47 pm to its1999
I knew better than to eat here but it was close to my hotel and I wan exhausted. I ate at a place called Boudreaux's in Maumelle, AR. They claim the chef is from New Orleans and it had decent review online. I ordered the Red Beans and Rice thinking that would be hard to mess up and holy crap was it bad. Downright awful! How hard is it to cook beans? 
Posted on 11/4/21 at 1:20 pm to its1999
There was a Cajun restaurant in Austin in the early 2000’s I went to
Nothing was seasoned - Im pretty sure it’s not there anymore
Nothing was seasoned - Im pretty sure it’s not there anymore
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