After spending 22 years as a history teacher turned vice principal at St. Cecilia Catholic School in Broussard, Marie Ducote-Comeaux decided she wanted to showcase her beloved city’s food to tourists and natives alike. Ducote-Comeaux offers three-and-a-half-hour tours twice a day on her 14-passenger bus for the willing and hungry.

There are a minimum of six restaurant stops along the tour, and Ducote-Comeaux works with 15 restaurants to provide every Cajun staple from Nunu’s boudin to Poupart’s pastries — but the 10 a.m. tour, which starts on the South side, is always different from the 3 p.m. tour, which starts downtown — and there are never repeat dishes.

“It’s a taste tour, so at each of the seven places, (at) some we do sit down but it’s just a little taste,” says Ducote-Comeaux, 47. “Some we’re not even sitting down. Like, we’re eating boudin in the meat department at Nunu’s.”




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