Barrow’s Catfish restaurant owners win $10,000 Food Network competition

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The family behind Barrow’s Catfish restaurant on Earhart Boulevard came out on top of Food Network’s newest culinary competition "Family Restaurant Rival" on Saturday night (Sept. 21). The payoff was ten grand and national exposure for the New Orleans neighborhood seafood spot.

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In the first round, third-generation restaurant owner Deirdre Barrow Johnson, husband Kenneth Johnson Jr. and daughter Destyn Johnson bested their rivals by re-imagining their signature fried catfish in taco form. In the next round, the trio was taken aback when they had to compose a three-course dinner based on vanilla ice cream. But the family prevailed, producing crab cakes with ice cream sauce, ice cream-flavored creole chicken breast and asparagus, and a rum milk shake with almonds and bananas.

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