Louisiana food in NYC

I remember Mara's Homemade being pretty terrible. Your best bet is to cook it at home.

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Louisiana food in NYC
NYC is a great gastrocentric location in the world but Louisiana/Cajun food has not been found in the city yet by me.

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With all the choices why would you be looking for it anyway? That's like looking for good pizza in Monroe.

I remember some place on Spring Street owned by some Tulane grads that was decent. Can't remember the name.

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I still find it curious that you can get a great rendition of any type of cuisine anywhere in the world, but you can only get great Louisiana food in Louisiana. It's an enigma.

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I'm not exactly sure why this is, but it seems to me these places always want put more emphasis and effort on the schtick of being a Louisiana or "Cajun" restaurant, than they do on caring about the actual food being served.

That's sort of my theory on why such places are always so crappy, but it doesn't really explain why they all seem to insist on going that route.

I think part of it has to do with the small number of LA people. There are millions of chinese and vietnamese...thus increasing your odds of finding a good place in any town. For example, in the last 20-30 years note the influx of border jumpers...its no coincidence that better Mexican cuisine can be found across much more of the U.S.


Solo, you need to go to Restaurant Iris...Jesuit chef from NOLA that trained under Besh. If this place were in LA, it would be the best restaurant outside of NOLA bar none. In NOLA, it may even be in the top 10-12. Excellent.

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That's like looking for good pizza in Monroe.

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ate at warren dr the other night got 12 sweep and cheese sticks....it was terrible, food was late, cheese sticks were all dough not much cheese, pizza was skimpy and tasted bad...cant wait to see Johhny to let him know how bad it was

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at least one boil a season a

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Can I come?

Also, the original question...there is only decent La food here- nothing great....

Hobo, I make it up to South Orange three or four times a year. Daughter and family live there. Always bringing seafood with us. How far away from South Orange do you live ?

cant get it.
My bro lives in broklynn, we were just talking aobut this couple hrs ago.. he said even though NYC has great food it doesnt have La/southern/cajun cooking youll find right here in Louisiana.