Is "Randazzo's" the NOLA version of NYC's "Ray's Pizza" ??

I hate their cheap arse looking sprinkles too.

Camellia City bakery is the best

Ive only ever had Manny's off the corner of Causeway & W. Esplanade and the Camellia Randazzos in Slidell on Hwy. 11.

Both are exactly the same and the best King Cakes youll ever eat. Oh, and Antoines.

I really don't care for them at all

1965: After Hurricane Betsy, Randazzos Hi-Lan Bakery, operated by Sam Randazzo and his sons Lawrence, Manuel and Anthony, opens in Violet in what had been the familys Camellia Club restaurant and bar, started in the early 1950s. The old dance hall becomes the bakery.

1971: Randazzos Hi-Lan Bakery opens another location at 613 W. Judge Perez Drive in Chalmette. The two locations operate simultaneously for a few years.

1974: Manuel Randazzo decides to branch out on his own and converts the two-car garage at his Meraux home to open the Randazzo and Zornes Bakery with son-in-law Louis Zornes (husband of Manuels daughter, Tricia Randazzo-Zornes), who trained at the Hi-Lan Bakery. After a few months the space is deemed too small for the volume of business. Manuel returns to the family bakery. Zornes leaves the bakery business.

1988: Sam Randazzo dies. The bakery is operated by his sons and their children.

1992: Manuel Manny Randazzo Jr., son of Manuel, opens his own full-service bakery in Metairie, Randazzos Fine Cakes and Pastries. The family bakery makes headlines when one of Mannys uncles files a lawsuit challenging his use of the family name and the king cake recipe developed at the Chalmette bakery, while also alleging that his brothers are trying to push him out of the business. The lawsuit is later dropped.

1993: Joel Randazzo Forjet, daughter of Lawrence Randazzo, starts her own business, Randazzos King Cake Express, which handles shipping for Hi-Lan Bakery.

1994: Mickey Randazzo, wife of Manuel Randazzo Sr., dies. Tricia Randazzo-Zornes leaves the court-reporting profession and takes over her mothers work at the Hi-Lan bakery.

1994: Three of Lawrence Randazzos children Sal Randazzo, Petrina Randazzo and Joel Randazzo Forjet open Goodchildren Bakery Shoppe in Meraux, named after its location on Goodchildren Street, later renamed Judge Perez Drive.

1995: Manny Randazzo Jr. goes to seasonal king-cake-only business, open to the public during Carnival season.

1996: Manuel Randazzo Sr. retires from baking.

1996: Randazzos Hi-Lan Bakery in Chalmette closes, but reopens for 1997 Carnival season. Doors never reopen after Lundi Gras.

Oct. 1997: Tricia Randazzo-Zornes and husband Louis open Randazzos Camellia City Bakery in Slidell.

March 3, 1998: Lawrence J. Randazzo dies at age 72.

March 30, 2005: Anthony J. Randazzo dies at age 81, leaving no children

August 29, 2005: Katrina and flooding destroy both the Goodchildren Bakery in Meraux and Randazzos Camellia City Bakery in Slidell, along with the homes of the owners and employees.

Late 2005: Randazzos Camellia City Bakery reopens in Slidell as a seasonal king cake business open to the public only during Carnival season.

2006: Joel Randazzo Forjet and her husband, Felix, who started working at the Hi-Lan Bakery while in high school, open Nonnas Italian Bakery and Caffe as a full-service bakery in Covington.

2008: Dianne Randazzo, ex-wife of Manny Jr., opens Dianne Randazzo LLC bakery in Elmwood. Manny Jr. files a lawsuit; a judge rules that the recipe, which came from Diannes new business partner, cannot be called a Randazzos king cake.

2011: Nonna Randazzos opens a second location in Chalmette, run by Kayla and Felix Forjet III, son of Felix and Joel Randazzo Forjet, once again giving St. Bernard Parish a bakery with the Randazzo name.

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probably sells 10 times more than all the other family named places combined

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Obviously you've never been to or had a Camelia City king cake...

Go to kingcake . com and tell me which bakery comes up... It's literally the first result on Google when searching "king cake".

Camelia City kills Manny's. Every day!

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I don't like manny randazzos. There, I said it. It's like there is lemon in their icing and it's bullshite.

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Did you get the lemon filled king cake or something? Manny's is awesome. I don't know what you ate.

Dong Phuong & Antoine's are the top dogs to me...Westbank is where it's at for king cakes (unless you get a DP from Pizza Nola...Amore in old Gretna also sells DP's)

I like the Ray's pizza analogy though with the Randazzo's...I lost track a few years ago.

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the best King Cakes

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Dong Phong bakery in NOLA east. Hands down.