![]() ![]() ![]() The Herbal Harvest and Original Arts and Crafts Festival, held at St. Featuring the Children’s Coalition, the All Children’s Festival at the RiverMarket is a French-style marche, multicultural in nature, that sells fresh produce, artisan works and food in a charming town-square setting. The fine city of Monroe also gives the lovely month of October due celebration as the wonderful Downtown River Market sponsors a series of events all month. I have come to enjoy the strange little dance we engage in each night I return home and the autumn wind causes the ghost and I to entangle, trapped by its cloth in a comical struggle. On this day, I hang a life-sized fabric ghost, a wind catcher, outside my front door. 1 presages cooler air open windows and the Impressionist blur of crimson, gold, purple and bronze autumn flowers and leaves – all accompanied by the aroma of homemade vegetable soup. Gateway to the seasons of Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, Oct. The first of October is always enchanting. If you’re in a lighter frame of mind, take salads to the edge of decadence by choosing a salad with fried oysters, which features a combination of fresh greens and your choice of dressing along with the delicious crunch and texture of the aforementioned shellfish. Traditional seafood platters are offered with the addition of frog legs, fried crawfish tails and boudin balls to the usual fried and stuff shrimp stuffed crab and oysters. Then, for a new take on an entrée, the same delicious crab cake is served topped with crawfish etouffee in the crab cake dinner, accompanied by cole slaw and hush puppies. Among their delectable appetizers are snow crab clusters fried pickles beer-battered jalapenos crawfish pies and boudin balls.įor a new take on sandwiches, the crab cake poor boy is delightful – the crab cake itself is a perfect blend of texture and flavors perfectly fried. Owned by Bush and Juanice Carnahan, in addition to serving some of the spiciest, most succulent mudbugs to be found in North Louisiana, this seafood establishment is no slouch in the crab, shrimp and oyster department either during the mudgbugs’ offseason. I’ll be back to try some of their other offerings.Ģ10 Metairie-Hammond Hwy.The Crawfish Hole # 2 in Minden, an eatery dedicated, but not limited to, Louisiana’s revered crustacean. This popular, laid back restaurant, festooned with fish nets and lined with windows, white with crawfish-red pillars inside, is a bright happy place to enjoy delicious food. Overall, we had a pretty good lunch here. Just keep this in mind if you decide to order this. Well, I checked the menu again and it said the lunch portion was just a smaller version of the dinner portion, so that explanation didn’t make any sense. He said that comes with the lunch portion, which he didn’t think I wanted. I told our waiter the menu advertised this dish as crabmeat stuffed eggplant. I tried scraping some off so I could taste the eggplant. The batter on it was so thick it was all I could taste. ![]() And don’t ask me how I thought the eggplant might be served, but I didn’t know it’d be fried. No crab stuffing at all in the entire dish. This was just two planks of fried eggplant. The menu said the eggplant was stuffed with crabmeat. However, I was really disappointed in the dish. I went with the Crawfish Pontchartrain sauce instead of the Shrimp Lafayette sauce. My dining partner said her shrimp dinner was pretty good, but the pasta part of the dish could have been hotter. Made with a dark enough roux, plenty of seafood and seasoned nicely. And the honey mustard dipping sauce was delicious! I asked our waiter what was in it, and he said Dijon mustard, honey and horseradish to give it a little kick. ![]() Nice and cheesy and loaded with crawfish. And in my opinion a half order is plenty enough for two people! + THE FOOD + VooDoo Crawfish Rolls Shrimp Feast Stuffed Eggplant For entrées my dining partner got the Shrimp Feast, and I went with the Stuffed Eggplant. We decided on a half order of onion rings, the VooDoo Crawfish Rolls, and a cup of seafood gumbo for appetizers. Since my menu pictures always come out horrible, and I have no idea how to fix it, here’s a link to their menu: Today we figured we’d take a shot at lunch, and luckily, we got a table! If I’m not fed soon I might actually start biting people! So we would never wait.īut that was always at dinner time. When I’m hungry? That impatience grows immensely. We’ve tried to eat here at least three times, and each time there was at least a 30-minute wait for a table. That being said I’ve been eyeballing this place for some time. The ones I’ve tried are R&O’s, Lime Leaf, Station 6 and Deanie’s. There are a bunch of good restaurants within two blocks of this one. You can literally walk right across the street and catch shrimp, crabs and fish in Lake Pontchartrain, so it’s natural for the menu to feature a lot of seafood. This place is located in an area of Metairie called Bucktown. ![]()
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