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re: Cochon closing in Lafayette
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:27 am to Y.A. Tittle
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:27 am to Y.A. Tittle
quote:I agree. I think Link let nostalgia for his home area vastly overestimate the demand for what he was doing with Cochon.
It's sad how everyone harps on that, when they offer so much more than just boudin. Place is much more ambitious than anything Mansurs or Ruffinos would ever hope to be, yet people are going to say they won't eat there because they can get better boudin at the corner gas station.
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Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:28 am to yellowfin
Yea, I went expecting to be wowed and their menu is really blah. idk what kind of specials they offered, maybe those were ambitious, but the general menu was tame
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:32 am to yellowfin
quote:
nothing really ground breaking on there
By ambitious, I don't necessarily mean "ground breaking." I don't think that's what he was trying to be there anyway. I think he just wanted to offer food with a traditional bent, yet served in a chef driven atmosphere with a real emphasis on procuring the freshest and best ingredients possible.
The fact that you could pay $9 to get 3 boudin balls, in a nice restaurant setting made with care and the best possible ingredients available versus paying $5 to get them in a paper bag take out from a gas station down the road instead, does not seem like it should be a deal killer. However, clearly it was and I can't say I'm surprised.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:35 am to Y.A. Tittle
quote:
The fact that you could pay $9 to get 3 boudin balls, in a nice restaurant setting made with care and the best possible ingredients available versus paying $5 to get them in a paper bag take out from a gas station down the road instead, does not seem like it should be a deal killer. However, clearly it was and I can't say I'm surprised.
This statement assumes equal tasting boudin balls which apparently they were not.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:37 am to Y.A. Tittle
quote:
The fact that you could pay $9 to get 3 boudin balls, in a nice restaurant setting made with care and the best possible ingredients available versus paying $5 to get them in a paper bag take out from a gas station down the road instead, does not seem like it should be a deal killer
Where is it 5 dollars for 3 boudin balls in that area? Billys is like 1.50 each and WAY bigger. Places like Best Stop its 3 for like 1.50.
Im not really sure how you can say that a chef is making boudin and boudin balls better than places that have been doing just that for generations. How is pork and rice at Couchon so much better than at these local butchers?
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:38 am to Janky
quote:
This statement assumes equal tasting boudin balls which apparently they were not.
Ehh, I think there's a lot of clouded perceptions.
I've had lots of good gas station boudin/boudin balls in and around Lafayette. Anyone who's saying anything Link was putting out is not on par with any of that, though, doesn't really know what they're talking about.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:39 am to Y.A. Tittle
quote:You can get equal or better, made by people who have owned their place for generations, who take just as much pride in their work, for cheaper. For me, for most, that's a deal breaker.
does not seem like it should be a deal killer.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:42 am to Y.A. Tittle
quote:
Anyone who's saying anything Link was putting out is not on par with any of that, though, doesn't really know what they're talking about.
Why don't people understand what an opinion is? Just because someone has a different opinion on taste, does not mean they don't know what they are talking about.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:43 am to Y.A. Tittle
quote:
The fact that you could pay $9 to get 3 boudin balls, in a nice restaurant setting made with care and the best possible ingredients available versus paying $5 to get them in a paper bag take out from a gas station down the road instead, does not seem like it should be a deal killer. However, clearly it was and I can't say I'm surprised.
I can't speak for others but price wasn't the issue for me, I understand he had to charge more in a nice place than somewhere like Best Stop. The fact that it was an inferior product was the deal breaker for me.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:47 am to yellowfin
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The fact that it was an inferior product was the deal breaker for me.
What, in your opinion made it an "inferior product"?
For the record, I never ate at Cochon Lafayette, and was not talking purely about individual "taste" or "opinion" in the exchange above -- more just quality of product, which, having eaten at Cochon NO and Cochon Butcher, I find it hard to believe his offerings there could have been markedly inferior to anything offered in gas stations (for which I admit, I've had some really good products from).
This post was edited on 1/25/13 at 10:49 am
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:49 am to Y.A. Tittle
quote:
What, in your opinion made it an "inferior product"?
simple
taste
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:49 am to Y.A. Tittle
Not even close to being as good as Billy's. I would say its on par with Best Stop maybe a little lower. But Best Stop is charging 50 cents for what he is charging 3 dollars for.
FWIW I dont think Boudin Balls are on the menu in Laffy though they include it in a platter that is like 14-15 dollars. I may be wrong.
FWIW I dont think Boudin Balls are on the menu in Laffy though they include it in a platter that is like 14-15 dollars. I may be wrong.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:50 am to yellowfin
quote:
simple
taste
I can't believe I've reached the verge of wanting to challenge someone to one of Jersey Tiger's infamous blind taste challenges.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:50 am to Y.A. Tittle
google their menu vs the NO menu. The two are very different
and it's a different restaurant patron too. Like I said before, people in Lafayette aren't going to get all excited and omg this is so out of the box about head cheese and boudin or game meats
and it's a different restaurant patron too. Like I said before, people in Lafayette aren't going to get all excited and omg this is so out of the box about head cheese and boudin or game meats
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:51 am to Y.A. Tittle
There is a flavor in Couchon boudin that I dont care all that much for. Some sort of pepper that is different..
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:53 am to TexasTiger05
quote:
google their menu vs the NO menu. The two are very different
I'll admit, after pulling it up, it looks decidedly less interesting than the NO menu. I'm not sure why he chose to sort of 'dumb it down' there, for lack of a better term. I don't know if he would have had more success replicating the NO menu, though.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:55 am to Y.A. Tittle
quote:
I can't believe I've reached the verge of wanting to challenge someone to one of Jersey Tiger's infamous blind taste challenges.
Best Stop vs. Don's vs. Billy vs. Cochon
that'd be the easiest money I make today
Hell Link's cousin at the Mowata store has him beat by far
This post was edited on 1/25/13 at 10:56 am
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:58 am to yellowfin
That would def be easy to tell the difference. All are pretty different in many ways with texture being one of the big ones.
BTW Ronnies for Boudin Balls FTW. lol
BTW Ronnies for Boudin Balls FTW. lol
Posted on 1/25/13 at 11:00 am to pr0jektblack
Can't really say I'm surprised, I was never really blown away by anything there. I tried it three times, I just felt there were better places in Lafayette to eat.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 11:02 am to FOAK
NOLA > BR > Laffy
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