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by: dac1842 Active Indicator LED Icon 3 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Mar 11, '15 7:56pm  
This place has the best Cajun food in the area. They are across from the new Aldi's and CVS on 1960 between Deerbrook Plaza drive and Kenswick Drive on the south side of 1960. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 11, '15 8:02pm  
How does it compare to Zachary's or Ragin-Cajun? 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 11, '15 8:46pm  
I have had just about everything on the menu, and would recommend everything.
I grew up in Lafayette and this is the best i have found outside of Lafayette.
This puts Zachary's to shame and to me is better than Ragin Cajun, Floyd's or any other Cajun place anyplace around here.
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 11, '15 9:44pm  
Sounds like my dinner plans for Thursday are set! 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 11, '15 10:46pm  
Thanks for the tip! 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 11, '15 11:06pm  
Sounds like my dinner plans for Thursday are set!
 
@foxymama:  Several places around here serve boudin balls, but they are never as tasty as the ones we buy from the Best Grocery Store and Meat Market in Scott, LA.  I've been craving some good boudin balls and Best now mail-orders!http://www.beststopinscott.com/#Boudin-BallsWhere have you found the best boudin or boudin balls?The best andouille (to me) was from a little place in LaPlace, LA where we used to live.
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 11, '15 11:32pm  
My family and I must be the only ones around here that do not like what seems to be a very popular Cajun restaurant in the area. We've tried it 3 or 4 times and just didn't care for it. We'll have to try this place. However, we just got back from New Orleans so I really don't need to eat for the next week or two! 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 11, '15 11:35pm  
I might have to check this place out. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 12, '15 12:57am  
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 12, '15 1:07am  
Will be checking it out. Zachary's is decent but if you've ever eaten real Cajun food in Acadiana (that's the heart of Cajun country) you will have much higher standards. Same thing with Poboys, once you leave New Orleans you ain't gettin a PoBoy.       4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 12, '15 1:18am  
Will be checking it out. Zachary's is decent but if you've ever eaten real Cajun food in Acadiana (that's the heart of Cajun country) you will have much higher standards. Same thing with Poboys, once you leave New Orleans you ain't gettin a PoBoy.      
 
@beastmode: That's kind of how we felt about it. The food was OK, but I grew up in south Louisiana, and it didn't taste like anything I've ever eaten.
 
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 12, '15 9:48am  
Is there any place that makes a great bbq shrimp?
 
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 12, '15 12:04pm  

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>> Sounds like my dinner plans for Thursday are set!
 
@foxymama:  Several places around here serve boudin balls, but they are never as tasty as the ones we buy from the Best Grocery Store and Meat Market in Scott, LA.  I've been craving some good boudin balls and Best now mail-orders!http://www.beststopinscott.com/#Boudin-BallsWhere have you found the best boudin or boudin balls?The best andouille (to me) was from a little place in LaPlace, LA where we used to live.
 
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My husband is the expert in all things boudin. I will ask him his favorite places. My husband knows the name of the sausage place too. I will ask him this weekend.
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 13, '15 7:50pm  
My wife and I tried Cafe Rian Cajun Cafe this evening.  Some of the food was better than others.  Here are some of our personal observations:Boudin BallsTaste was above average (for around here) but still not as good as our favorite place in LA.Served very hot from the fryer.A little heavy on the cayenne pepper and lacked other flavors.Cup of GumboIt had a good taste but was not as thick as I am used to.Had a nice amount of meat (chicken, sausage, shrimp).I would return just for it.Fish and Shrimp Po-boyBread was NOT the crusty French bread that defines a real po-boy.Two thick pieces of catfish and four large shrimp.It was "dressed" properly.After trying to pick it up, the soft bread fell apart.  My wife just left it open and ate off of the bread.Seafood PlatterNice quantity of catfish, shrimp, oysters, and crawfish, with hush puppies and fries.Breading on the seafood was very heavy.  I couldn't really taste the seafood.Items were very salty.  Some worse than others.I was tempted to try the crawfish etouffe, but I loved my dad's etouffe so much, nothing else compares.I asked the server where in Louisiana the owners had lived.  She replied Shreveport.  That initially surprised me.  When I was going to college at LA Tech in Ruston (1973-1978) and we lived in Monroe, the northern part of the state did NOT identify in ANY way as Cajun at that time.  Alexandria was the border between south LA and north LA.  Only after everything "Cajun" became popular did north LA embrace Cajun food, even though it was just adopted.  After Hurricane Katrina, many people escaped from New Orleans and the surrounding areas to north LA.  Many stayed there, bringing some real Creole and Cajun foods to north LA.  Duck Dynasty loves to show Mrs Kay cooking Cajun food (and it does look and sound good).  Both she and Phil Robertson are from a small town northwest of Shreveport (and are older than me).  I can almost guarantee that neither of them grew up on Cajun food. Anyway, Shreveport is not true Cajun country, but they try hard.If I compare Cafe Rian to Zachary's, I'd have to give the nod to Zachary's, but I would go back to Cafe Rian. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 13, '15 8:08pm  
New Orleans is not Cajun either but most people think it is absolutely the mecca of Cajun cooking. NO is known for creole cooking, more island influence but they can put some nice spins on Cajun cuisine. Both are insane delicious but they often get mixed together in one pot. NO is also home of Poboys. Only a handful of places in NO still make the real flaky bread that was given to the strike workers many moons ago. That bread was free to them, thrown out but they gave it to them to show support. Funny how stale old bread and food made from immigrant French settlers that everybody hated turns out to be some of the best food in the country.  4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 13, '15 8:46pm  
New Orleans is not Cajun either but most people think it is absolutely the mecca of Cajun cooking. NO is known for creole cooking, more island influence but they can put some nice spins on Cajun cuisine. Both are insane delicious but they often get mixed together in one pot. NO is also home of Poboys. Only a handful of places in NO still make the real flaky bread that was given to the strike workers many moons ago. That bread was free to them, thrown out but they gave it to them to show support. Funny how stale old bread and food made from immigrant French settlers that everybody hated turns out to be some of the best food in the country. 
 
@beastmode:  Very true.  Most of the "Cajuns" from Acadia settled along the Mississippi River and others spread west from there.  The first settlement along the Mississippi River (upriver from NO) were actually Germans and Swiss.  The Acadians came along a little later.  Over the years, the blend of foods from French, German, Swiss, Africans, Island Creoles, and some Spanish have merged into what is now generally called Cajun food.  You really can't tell which foods are Cajun and which are Creole anymore and it's not worth arguing about.... it's all so good!Edited:  Forgot the Native American Indians.  They also influenced what is now known as Cajun food.We lived in Laplace (St John the Baptist Parish) for about 15 years (just a few miles from where my father was born and raised).  The French bread on our po-boys was not stale. It was baked so that it had a hard crunchy crust and soft, airy insides.  If a po-boy bread didn't crunch when you bit down, something was wrong. We used to stop and buy warm French bread at the grocery store.   There was one bakery that we loved.  They provided French bread to many, many restaurants and grocery stores.  They even made several deliveries each day so the bread was fresh and still warm.   I'm not sure, but I seem to think it was Reising's.  It seems like they got bought out by another company about the time we moved here.  CONFIRMED:  Reising's was bought out by Leidenheimer in the early 1990s (we moved here in 1993).  They still make some bread under the Reising's name.   If I weren't so stuffed, I'd be drooling now.
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