re: Baton Rouge area "Cajun" food sucks

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You care enough to come in this thread and post about it.

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This thread is about how bad Baton Rouge food sucks, it’s not about Jambalaya you dumb frick

Most New Orleans style food is overrated. Creole food is nowhere near as good as Cajun food.

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I understand your overall point, but you can get Cajun food in New Orleans.

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I will happily try any restaurant.

But I haven't had a good bisque that wasn't made at home since Las' closed 28 years ago in Henderson. I have never seen a good étoufée in a restaurant. I have never had a good sauce picante in a restaurant. And the only time I ever had good okra and tomatoes...it was in Mississippi.

Merliton and shrimp? Never.

Boudin? Never outside of specialty shops.

A decent bowl of red beans and rice... Never in a restaurant in New Orleans. They always frick up the rice.

The fact of the matter is that good Cajun cooking is not refined. It is about breaking those rules in French cooking. Sauce picant being a prime example. Onions are added at three separate times. The first are caramelized to near burnt for depth. The second batch is for sweetness. The final addition is for brightness. No restaurants do that anymore.

Why? Too much work.

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Creole food is nowhere near as good as Cajun food.

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Easy now.

Creole food can punch with any French cooking. Italian too.

What I find funny is how many good southern baws can make a roux that would befuddle most classically trained chefs.

I find it even more funny that a Cajun cook typically makes 8-12 types of roux for different dishes and doesn't even realize it.

The best moment for to watch any chef have an epiphany is when they taste their first crawfish pie. I've seen more than one at a loss for words. Not bad for some butter, trinity, crawfish tails, butter (I know I said it twice), light seasoning, and flour.

Or, I don't know, go to a f&%king fastfood chain? That would be like going to New Orleans, ordering a hotdog from Bud's Broiler, and saying New Orlean's food is crap. We named like a dozen great restaurants you didn't go to to try. It's not our fault you acted stupidly.

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in New Orleans restaurants you can find the most flavorful gumbo, jambalaya, crawfish etouffee, corn/crawfish bisque, boiled crawfish

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No, you can't.

Dooky Chases gumbo z'herbes is good. But that isn't gumbo. Any jambalaya will be too wet and made with parboiled rice. I doubt there is a restaurant in the city that makes a rouxless étoufée. There will be a few good bisque I'm sure... But a butter bases roux has never and will nevwr be cajun.

As for boiled crawfish, there are a few smaller seafood shops who properly wash their crawfish and soak them right as well... But that isn't everywhere.

There are numerous very good restaurants in Lafayette.

Pop's
Bread & Circus Provisions
The French Press
Social
Charley G's
Johnson's
Taco Sisters
Saint Street Inn
Pamplona
Olde Tyme
Laura's II

and all kinds of other shite I'm missing

Not to mention all the really good plate lunch places, burger places, boudin, crawfish and everything within a 20 mile radius.

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As for gumbo, it doesn't get much better than the duck & andouiie gumbo from The Chimes.

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The gumbo at R’evolution shits all over the Chimes

I will have to try theirs then. Have you had both?

Duck and andouille at Charley G's