re: Darrell's Lake Charles

The bread

Better Cajun food in Lake Charles. That’s because Nola is Creole. There’s only a few Cajun cooks in Nola.

Isaac Toups
Paul Prudomme was I think

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Better Cajun food in Lake Charles

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Then why don’t you ever hear about anyone going there for the food? The only people going there are plant baws chasing money from the expansions. I would know because I did it myself. I’ve also been to some podunk arse towns all over the country for work. LC is one of the shittiest places I’ve had to go.

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Then why don’t you ever hear about anyone going there for the food?

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like i said earlier. LC has a certain reputation and threads like this show that a lot of ignorance is still out there

however, on the flip side, the fact that our 2 most "destination" food places are steamboat bills and darrells is pretty reflective of LC. neither are gourmet by any standards but what they do, they're really good at. not every city has the culture or financing to make the high-end their most beloved spots, but that doesn't mean that you don't have solid "nice" restaurants

and in that list earlier i totally forgot cousins, mazens, and calla. 121 and pujo are not "new" like i was saying, but they're very good as well for a nice place.

then there are a ton of medium-level places that are really good for that tier like nina ps, chastains, luna, pat's of henderson, macfarlanes, leonards, mama ritas, the kitchen, cottens, lagunas, cancun, seafood palace, botsky's, rickenjacks, etc.

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steamboat bills

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They are not good at what they do. I’m surprised by the lack of restaurants that served boiled crawfish in lake Charles. There’s a drive thru on every corner though.

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I’d put LC over New Orleans any day.

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Where have you eaten in New Orleans?

No doubt they make a lot of money but it’s more due to lake of competition than anything else. Maybe I’ll open one over there

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I don't remember that but maybe you're talking about Mr. D's? It was on Common street after Cock of the Walk left town. That place was awesome. We'd go there at least once a week.

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Oh crap, I meant Mr. Bill's (not to be confused with Steamboat Bills). I forgot about Mr D's. I remember getting BBQ'd crabs there and waiting for an eternity, but they were awesome.

For Pat's, I was referring to Pat's of Henderson. Pat O'Carrols was great too.

That reminds me of Schilleleys (spelling) on Prien for some reason. I forgot about that place.

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Better than anything Baton Rouge has

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Chimes is better.

Darrell's does have very good bread. Chimes poboy bread is the closest I can think of being soft and flakey. I'll take Chimes Roast Beef with gravy or the BBQ Shrimp Poboy over anything from Darrell's.