Someone should come to Florence, Alabama and start a Cajun Restaurant.

Hell, a place that just made some awesome po' boys, and some decent gumbo, red beans and rice, etouffee, etc... would do great...

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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.

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So would Baton Rouge, LA. According to this board, there's no good Cajun food to be had there either.

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.

Maybe you should move to Louisiana instead of living in a shithole like bama

Drive over to huntsville and eat at the po boy factory. It isn't outstanding, but isn't bad either.