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Someone should come to Florence, Alabama and start a Cajun Restaurant.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 1:57 am
Posted on 11/14/14 at 1:57 am
I love cajun food and you can't get any of it around here really unless you make it yourself... and I'm not a coonass and don't even know if I make a good roux... (which means I don't)
Seriously though, someone wanting to start a cajun restaurant really should come here and start one... it would need to be in a good location and obviously well done, but it would have no competitors.
Seriously though, someone wanting to start a cajun restaurant really should come here and start one... it would need to be in a good location and obviously well done, but it would have no competitors.
This post was edited on 11/14/14 at 2:03 am
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Posted on 11/14/14 at 2:06 am to NATidefan
Hell, a place that just made some awesome po' boys, and some decent gumbo, red beans and rice, etouffee, etc... would do great...
Posted on 11/14/14 at 5:38 am to NATidefan
Not many Cajuns look at Florence, Alabama as a destination.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 6:19 am to TigerHam85
Do y'all have a Popeyes ? Best way to get Louisiana fast.
Also this thread puts off some troll odors.
Also this thread puts off some troll odors.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 6:42 am to NATidefan
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Seriously though, someone wanting to start a cajun restaurant really should come here and start one... it would need to be in a good location and obviously well done, but it would have no competitors.
So would Baton Rouge, LA. According to this board, there's no good Cajun food to be had there either.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 6:53 am to NATidefan
I grew up with two fully Cajun parents who cooked all of the time, and I'm still not sure what restaurant Cajun food is. We ate a shite ton of rice, usually with a grease gravy made from round steak or some type of pork. I've NEVER seen that served in a restaurant. A good deal of one pot, or dish, meals...which doesn't seem like restaurant fare either...overall I think Cajun food is something that doesn't translate well to a restaurant setting, only since it seems sort of cheap and unspectacular, albeit tasty and satisfying. Frying up seafood, although if a place could make my mom's fried shrimp they'd KILL it, and topping it with étouffée is something that was never done on any table I've ever seen. I think that's what Cajun restaurants are pushed to...blackening a fish or steak and topping it with a Cajun dish. It works, but I'd just rather the dish without the Cajun part. Leave my Drum naked please.
This post was edited on 11/14/14 at 6:54 am
Posted on 11/14/14 at 7:03 am to Gaston
Well when I think of a Cajun restaurant I think of a quick, order at the counter type place. Those places are everywhere and pretty successful IMO. Mondays special is RBR, Tuesday is meatloaf, etc etc.
Gary's in lafayette is one that I consider a great cajun resturant. Nothing over $10. Daily plate lunches or get a burger/sandwich. Plate lunches may change to reflect the current season, like gumbo in winter. Picnic tables inside and outside.
It may not fit your idea of a great resturant, but that's okay. They're not trying to be a great resturant. They're trying to provide good Cajun home cooking on a daily basis for a fair price and for the working man.
Guess I'm going to Gary's today now.
Gary's in lafayette is one that I consider a great cajun resturant. Nothing over $10. Daily plate lunches or get a burger/sandwich. Plate lunches may change to reflect the current season, like gumbo in winter. Picnic tables inside and outside.
It may not fit your idea of a great resturant, but that's okay. They're not trying to be a great resturant. They're trying to provide good Cajun home cooking on a daily basis for a fair price and for the working man.
Guess I'm going to Gary's today now.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 7:07 am to Gaston
Rice and gravy......drool
So funny when kids from lafayette little league went to LLWS. at least half said favorite meal was rice and gravy
So funny when kids from lafayette little league went to LLWS. at least half said favorite meal was rice and gravy
Posted on 11/14/14 at 7:21 am to Rouge
You have that shitty restaurant called Cajun's. 
I didn't think the Po Boys at New Orleans Transfer in Muscle Shoals were terrible last time I was there. It's been awhile since I been there though.
I didn't think the Po Boys at New Orleans Transfer in Muscle Shoals were terrible last time I was there. It's been awhile since I been there though.
This post was edited on 11/14/14 at 8:06 am
Posted on 11/14/14 at 7:35 am to NATidefan
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Someone should come to Florence, Alabama
Posted on 11/14/14 at 7:36 am to Gaston
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We ate a shite ton of rice, usually with a grease gravy made from round steak or some type of pork. I've NEVER seen that served in a restaurant.
I've only seen it at damn near every grocery store, plate lunch place, and rest stop in South Louisiana. Cajun food is peasant food, and is mostly found in small specialty butcher shops, gas station lunch counters, and to go lunch places.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 7:37 am to TigerHam85
That sounds more Cajun, as to be expected from Lafayette, than anything I've seen billed as such. I'm on the east side of the state, when I'm in La, and places don't seem as legit, or even close. I'd eat it.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 7:42 am to kingbob
You think that would work outside of Acadiana? As a money making venture that is. I'm not doubting Cajun food exists in Cajun country, that'd be stupid, I'm just saying no one does it outside of there.
This post was edited on 11/14/14 at 7:44 am
Posted on 11/14/14 at 8:11 am to Gaston
I will say that Kickin Kajun in Honolulu is an extremely popular resturant. I went, and was incredibly disappointed, but everyone else there was in heaven.
Yes, Cajun food can very easily exist outside of Cajun country.
Yes, Cajun food can very easily exist outside of Cajun country.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 8:17 am to Gaston
The thing I missed the most while in BR for 10 years was a gas station plate lunch! Now that I am back over here, I eat them all the time. It usually consists of a rice and gravy of some sort, potato salad, greens, a roll, and desert.
Also, I love going into just about anywhere and getting a meat pie, corn-dog, or cracklins along with a 25oz.
Also, I love going into just about anywhere and getting a meat pie, corn-dog, or cracklins along with a 25oz.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 8:24 am to TigerHam85
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I will say that Kickin Kajun in Honolulu is an extremely popular resturant. I went, and was incredibly disappointed, but everyone else there was in heaven.
I think this is true with a lot of the successful "cajun" places outside of Louisiana. Owners have to tweak their recipes to cater to the local crowd to keep them coming back. I know one place in Tennessee that really cut back on the seasoning to make it more bland and used more hot sauce to please the locals. I thought the food was bad and talked to the owner, he ended up cooking me another plate without doing that and it was pretty good.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 8:28 am to Gaston
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You think that would work outside of Acadiana? As a money making venture that is. I'm not doubting Cajun food exists in Cajun country, that'd be stupid, I'm just saying no one does it outside of there.
The issue is labor. There are few people skilled in making the true cajun stuff (hogs head cheese, boudin, hawg maw, cracklins, ect) well and convincing one of them to move from cajun country can be difficult. As for the other stuff, it's just like any other business. My advice to you would be to find some young coonasses and some old black women and bring them to Alabama to start printing money.
The other issue is material. There are many locations where fresh seafood is tough to come by. The seasoning blends and other ingredients (like sausage, pork temple meat, ect) may be readily accessible in Louisiana, but scarce if even existent at all abroad.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 8:34 am to NATidefan
Maybe you should move to Louisiana instead of living in a shithole like bama
Posted on 11/14/14 at 8:35 am to TigerHam85
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Yes, Cajun food can very easily exist outside of Cajun country.
In Nova Scotia perhaps
This post was edited on 11/14/14 at 8:36 am
Posted on 11/14/14 at 9:10 am to Burt Reynolds
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In Nova Scotia perhaps
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