The Little Big Cup - Review (with pics)

The Little Big Cup located in Arnaudville, LA.

I shouldn't even post my pics. The ones on their FB page are much better.

So, I only heard about this little coffee shop/restaurant about a week ago. It's been open about a year, started off as a coffee shop, and it has already had to expand.

It is quaint and charming. I loved the ambiance and the decor. There are two dining rooms as well as a lovely deck for outdoor dining (when it's not so cold). Let me say it again, charming! Loved the look of the place.

We made reservations for 1:00 for their Thanksgiving Buffet. On a non-Thanksgiving Day, they are open for lunch and dinner. There are menu items ( menu), daily plate lunch specials, Sunday brunch, Friday night seafood buffet). Check out their Facebook page.











This seafood dressing was delicious. Well seasoned, flavorful, moist, distinctively seafoody, shrimp and crawfish not overcooked.



Roast Pork with Chardonnay Pears. Excellent.



While this is a very unflattering picture of the beef, it was good! Rare and flavorful. I had it with horseradish.



The cornbread dressing, one of my favorite things about Thanksgiving, did not disappoint.





I skipped the mac and cheese, the green bean casserole (my husband gave both of those two thumbs up) and the candied yams. I went with roasted root vegetables (delicious) and creamed spinach (would eat again, and again).












I was too embarrassed to take a pic of my plate when it still had everything on it! There is a cup of pumpkin and butternut squash soup that I didn't take a good pic of, but it was tasty.





I haven't had dessert in a long time, so I was excited to have some. The pecan pie was gone by the time I was ready, so I had a little bit of the bread pudding as well as three kinds of cake balls. (I've never had cake balls and figured I'd love them.)

The white chocolate bread pudding was delicious! Firm, but not dry, moist, but not wet. Would eat again. Cake balls? Meh. I don't know what I expected. They were denser than cake. Too sweet. However, this was good for my calorie intake, because I took one bite of each and left the rest. IMO cake >>> cake balls.



Other things on the buffet I didn't try: Mashed potatoes and gravy, pork backbone stew, chicken and sausage gumbo, roast turkey, cranberry sauce (my husband loved the cranberry sauce), pumpkin pie, petit fours.

All in all, we were very satisfied with our experience and the meal. I want to try it out for lunch with some of my girlfriends, and also my husband and I would like to go for Sunday brunch (which I've heard from a friend is very good). The Thanksgiving dishes were home style and good. Each dish could stand on its own.


PS - I've resized a couple of those pictures again and again. Sometimes it takes photobucket a while for the resizing to show. Hopefully they will be correctly sized by the time you view this post.