your hometown favorite restaurant?

Weekend brunch/lunch menu at Longman & Eagle in Chicago. Fantastic top-to-bottom, including the bloody. We go almost weekly.

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Trapanis

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as many times as we've been to bay st louis we've never tried trapani's. need to do that next time

In Corpus Christi where I currently reside I find myself frequenting a place called BKK Thai. It's a little more upscale than your typical Thai place and has a solid bar that makes good cocktails.

Now that you mention it I might have to go there for lunch today

I'm a simple man with simple pleasures. I love Rocky & Carlos and have never been disappointed with anything I've gotten there.

If in the Slidell area and hungry, I'm heading to Phil's Marina Cafe and if in the area of Hammond, I'll often stop at Middendorf's on the way home.

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in hammond for a few years now, i've never tried Mariners

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Don't go in thinking it's some mind blowing experience or the best hamburger in the area.

French Market Bistro

In Thibodaux... Cinclair for drinks, Cuvee for drinks and food. Most of the "hometown" eateries from when I was younger are no longer around.

Murphy's in Hammond.
Great meatballs and spaghetti, perfectly cooked steaks, poboys on Leidenheimer bread and great fried seafood. Phenomenal salad bar.

It's close to the house and has never let us down so we end up there most of the times.

Exxon station on the corner of Pinehaven and Northside Drive.

In addition to gas, they cook really good chicken, chicken tenders, especially livers, and are willing to sell you smoked ribs by the bone from a big pile they keep stacked on their hot food line.

It's nice to get a couple of fried chicken thighs and a few ribs, with a half dozen livers and two or three JoJo potatoes. Makes an excellent meal for my sweetie and me.

I usually get diet Dr Pepper, but their beer selection is excellent and always cold. As one final plus, they have the best random number generator in town for Lottery ticket purchase. I'm not a scratch off kind of guy, but lots of folks buy their scratch offs there too.

Sometimes I will finish my visit by buying a honey bun or two for dessert.

We were in Meridian the other day and it looked like the Vietnamese Shrimp and Oyster Pooy/catfish/chicken/oyster Poboy place at the gas station there, beside the BMW dealership has closed, as in out-of-business. Just about broke my heart.

I whined about it all the way back to Jackson. Sad to see a culinary legend pass away.

Chicora Alley - Good beer selection, good food, good people and you never know what kind of surprise might be in store. Just a couple of weeks ago, Marcus King showed up unannounced and played a set out on the patio with his father, Marvin.