re: Cotton. Monroe, LA

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gene cox's meat.

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place is good but i didn't make it over the bridge much during my work prison sentence in Monroe

RIP the kitchen, only place ive ever seen Hot water cornbread on the menu

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Mohawk Tavern

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I love that this place exists exactly as it does.

Up until maybe the mid 80s or so, there were at least 2 dozen or more seafood joints throughout the state of Louisiana that were exactly like this. Every decent sized town had at least one. Several bigger towns had a few. And there were scattered roadside places just like it here and there (i.e., Hymels and Middendorfs - which sort of clings to what it was, but has likely been too gentrified to still say it IS what it was). This may be the last one that still exists in the same manner to this day, virtually unchanged at all.

I mean, just look at that: