Natchitoches Mardi Gras parade

I here they flash meat pies there.

Natchitoches is a surprisingly nice little town. Lot of restaurants down by the river. There's also a pretty good Italian place between the interstate and the town right before you get to NSU which might be a little less crowded.

You might get better, but fewer, responses on the Food board.

The Landing and Mayeaux's for steak/seafood, Mama's for oysters, Papa's for sandwiches, poboys, etc. are all on Front St. right at its heart.

Merci Beaucoup also does a lot of seafood and is on Church St. halfway between Front St. and Second St. Lasyone's for meat pies and Southern Food is on Second St., which is the next block over from Front.

All of them are within a two block square area. A couple more blocks down Front St., from those other places, there's a Japanese place whose name escapes me at this moment and Maglieaux's, a sort of Italian place.

Other options are farther away and will require driving out of the riverfront area.

We were just there last weekend, so all of this is still fresh in my addled mind.

The loft is a bar above the landing thats pretty nice and has a balcony over looking the parade as it comes down front street. Not sure that would work with a kid though. Also for anyone else coming into town you should check out Cane River brewery

Go browse around in kaffie-Fredrick. Really cool stuff in there. It’s a stress reliever of mine when I’m having a bad day at work

Where you at, baw?