New Orleans Food

[Mabus]

NOLA food would do great around here.

The only problem that might arise is the lack of good bread and baguettes. It has to be something with the water down there because I haven't had a good loaf anywhere outside of there.

Po'boys
Gumbo
Jambalaya
Blackened redfish
Char-broiled oysters
Red beans and rice (Pop-eye's does actually make good red beans and rice)
BBQ shrimp
Boiled crawfish

What's not to LOVE about cajun/creole cooking?! And with our location being close to the water, fresh seafood would go perfectly.

Good luck and I hope this goes through.

I'm surprised Maryland hasn't ruined crawfish by trying to steam them. That said, bay oysters are muddy and #1 males are throwbacks. Any shrimp I've seen here look like bait.

The good thing about Maryland is that they already expect to pay ridiculous prices for seafood, and that would work in our favor.

Alligator sauce piquante would fly over real well here. So would beignets. I doubt I'd ever open a restaurant here, because in order for anything to be authentic coonass it's gotta have drive-thru daiquiris. Good luck with that in Maryland.

 

[Mabus]

Search "Copeland's". It has been done around here before.

But hey..I'm always up for trying any restaurant that gives it a good effort.

I don't consider Copeland's authentic, but to each his own. It's probably the closest you'd get at the present time. I'm thinking more a place with zydeco playing, cypress benches, alligator heads, various oilfield artifacts, pirogues, Abita beer....a place to pass a good time. When I think of authentic Lusby I think of the Frying Pan, which I believe to be the best seafood restaurant in SoMD. I know Capt Pats has some things, but the food at Frying Pan is better IMO.

 

[twinoaks207]

I've actually floated that very idea with my brother, but his wife won't go more than 30 miles away from Bayou Lafourche. There's absolute potential with a Cajun restaurant here. You just gotta find some authentic coonasses to man the kitchen. Leaving Thursday to be down there for a week.

For the rest of you who are from down the bayou, I'm sad to report that the school I went to no longer offers Cajun French or bilingual classes. I know that in my family, at many social events, and my hometown's CODOFIL chapter, I am the youngest to speak it. I give it 10-15 years before French is not even spoken in the most isolated of bayous.

And this is just so sad...

Out of curiosity, how many folks here enjoy New Orleans style food, and would you support that type of restaurant locally if one opened up with good food and service?

Beignets, red beans & rice, muffalettas

Where & when?

A friend of mine who grew up down there brought me some beignets he made once. Man-o-man, I still remember how good those things were, and this was about 15 years ago, if not longer! Not too much for crawfish as I'm allergic to seafood (can you believe it?!!) but I'm there for muffalettas fo'shure, chere.

 

[Bann]

My mom's side of the family has lived down in the NO area for years. My aunt and her husband live in Slidell now. He is a retired NO fireman & grew up there. Since she learned from his momma - her red beans & rice is unrivaled. So are her muffaletta's.

 

[Pete]

NO is unrivaled in food. I had the best blackened redfish with craw-fish ettoufe EVER at a little place on a side street off Canal

 

[vraiblonde]

You all got me jacked up with all this NO food talk, so I made a "muffaletta" tonight for dinner. I made focaccia yesterday, had olive spread in the fridge, some turkey, genoa salami and provolone. Not authentic, but damn fine anyway.

 

[FromTexas]

I love New Orleans, but I get sad everytime I see a "New Orleans/Creole/Cajun" restaraunt in other states. Nothing is the same as there. Copelands probably came the closest I have seen in awhile outside NOLA (and thats not saying much) --- but it was actually an original New Orleans restaraunt so it had that going for it before it shuttered its doors.

Lots of restaraunts try imitation dishes but the New Orleans food experience isn't just the food (which is frankly amazing) but the entire experience/culture around it. Its hard to jump off Three Notch Road into a restaraunt and suddenly have that whole 'feel' that goes with eating a true NOLA meal.

 

[Pete]

You all got me jacked up with all this NO food talk, so I made a "muffaletta" tonight for dinner. I made focaccia yesterday, had olive spread in the fridge, some turkey, genoa salami and provolone. Not authentic, but damn fine anyway.

Damn you

 

[Pete]

I love New Orleans, but I get sad everytime I see a "New Orleans/Creole/Cajun" restaraunt in other states. Nothing is the same as there. Copelands probably came the closest I have seen in awhile outside NOLA (and thats not saying much) --- but it was actually an original New Orleans restaraunt so it had that going for it before it shuttered its doors.

Lots of restaraunts try imitation dishes but the New Orleans food experience isn't just the food (which is frankly amazing) but the entire experience/culture around it. Its hard to jump off Three Notch Road into a restaraunt and suddenly have that whole 'feel' that goes with eating a true NOLA meal.

You are talking "experience" and not "smell". Nothing says NO like the smell of vomit and piss in the morning

 

[vraiblonde]

Lots of restaraunts try imitation dishes but the New Orleans food experience isn't just the food (which is frankly amazing) but the entire experience/culture around it. Its hard to jump off Three Notch Road into a restaraunt and suddenly have that whole 'feel' that goes with eating a true NOLA meal.

I wasn't overwhelmed with anything I ate in NO. It was good, but nothing I crave and dream about or even really remember. I think those grilled oysters we had at the airport were the best thing I ate the whole trip. But hell, you can do that here just as easy.

It's what you said - the atmosphere and "feel" makes it special. La Tabella may have the best Italian food in the universe, but it will pale beside a simple plate of pasta at a cafe in Portofino.

 

[vraiblonde]

Nothing says NO like the smell of vomit and piss in the morning

And the smell of the lemony street cleaner fluid that freshens things up so the vomiters and pissers can start all over again.

 

[Pete]

I wasn't overwhelmed with anything I ate in NO. It was good, but nothing I crave and dream about or even really remember. I think those grilled oysters we had at the airport were the best thing I ate the whole trip. But hell, you can do that here just as easy.

It's what you said - the atmosphere and "feel" makes it special. La Tabella may have the best Italian food in the universe, but it will pale beside a simple plate of pasta at a cafe in Portofino.

The second time I went I found some fantastic places, most off the beaten path. First time was mostly the touristy places in the main areas and it was just OK

 

[mkd20012001]

I will be in New Orleans on Friday and will be there for 3 weeks. I am so excited to spend Christmas with my family and to eat some crawfish and everything else that has been mentioned above.

 

[twinoaks207]

I will be in New Orleans on Friday and will be there for 3 weeks. I am so excited to spend Christmas with my family and to eat some crawfish and everything else that has been mentioned above.

You are now officially charged with "having some for the rest of us" so we can eat vicariously through you. Eat a muffaletta & some beignets for me!

 

[vraiblonde]

You are now officially charged with "having some for the rest of us" so we can eat vicariously through you. Eat a muffaletta & some beignets for me!

And drink some of that chicory coffee for me. THAT, I remember.

 

[Pete]

And drink some of that chicory coffee for me. THAT, I remember.

 

[vraiblonde]

I'm not paying money for somebody to make me cheap food.

I would and have paid for picadillo and black beans, which is poor folk food. And the corned beef hash at Chick & Ruth's easily rivals a filet at Ruth's Chris. Big cheap food fan here!

 

[vraiblonde]

You are high. Best hangover remedy EVER. And I should know.

 

[Pete]

You are high. Best hangover remedy EVER. And I should know.

I was in Panama and had a kid from NO who worked for me. His aunt send him a care package that included Chicory coffee. Being the experimental open minded kind I was more than willing to try it, besides "chicory" is a cool word, fun to say, how could it suck? Well it did, it was awful, and it funked up our coffee pot for several days.

I reassert my

 

[mkd20012001]

You are now officially charged with "having some for the rest of us" so we can eat vicariously through you. Eat a muffaletta & some beignets for me!

I will see what I can do!


First on the list is some boiled crawfish then I will go from there.