Where to eat

[Fais do-do]

Another food thread......didn't the last one break the 1,000 page mark in 30 secs?

It will lock up the website!

[OLEMISSREBELS]

Looks like we need to come just and eat for a week!!!!!!! How the hell doesn't your Cajuns weigh 400 pounds?

Fais do-do I see we have something in common. I HATE lsu too!!!!!!!!!!

[Orestes]

------Go see the work of UL alumnus George Rodrigue at the Blue Dog Cafe and eat great food---Crab and corn Bisque inside a bread bowl!!!

+1 The only issue is that parking and access back onto Pinhook Road can be a hassle at times.

[ulXrunner]

Looks like we need to come just and eat for a week!!!!!!! How the hell doesn't your Cajuns weigh 400 pounds?

Fais do-do I see we have something in common. I HATE lsu too!!!!!!!!!!

We usually don't last long enough to reach 400 lbs.

[CajunFun]

Got about 20 REBS coming in Saturday morning. Whats the best place to get some good local food before the game Saturday.

Thanks and HOTTY TODDY

Right by the campus, and across from Olde Tyme is the Saint St. Inn. Bistro cuisine, but almost all local meats & produce. Pricey, but very good. And with all the really fine dishes they serve this will sound bizarre, but the best hamburger I've ever eaten. My daughter only ate half of hers, and the next day I warmed the whole thing in the microwave. It was still one of the best hamburgers I've eaten. Local free range angus beef, of course.

If you have time, hit Marcello's. We have yet to eat anything there that was less than outstanding, and the wines are amazing. Problem is, it's pricey and more for evening dining, but they serve lunch.

Drive down to New Iberia, eat at Clementine's on the Bayou Teche. Nearby are Avery Island (Tabasco) and Jefferson Island (Jungle Gardens and Lake Peigneur). BTW, they are not really islands. When the Cajuns arrived in 1765 (they arrived in the New World in 1604, 16 years before the Mayflower, and 3 years before Jamestown), South Louisiana was an enormous prairie with bison, prairie chickens, and grass so tall you had sit on a horse to see over it. The Cajuns likened it to an ocean, and the salt diapirs that rose above it were named 'islands'.

Cafe Vermilionville is very good, local/Paul Prudhomme cuisine (Prudhomme has really invented an entirely new 'Cajun' cooking, only loosely based on the traditional.) But again, pricey and more for the evening, but I believe they have a champagne brunch (anyone?)

This will be out of left field, but I have a friend from Canada who constantly travels with his work. He eats Thai everywhere he goes. He claims that Thai Cuisine is the best he's ever found.

[ulXrunner]

Looks like we need to come just and eat for a week!!!!!!! How the hell doesn't your Cajuns weigh 400 pounds?

Fais do-do I see we have something in common. I HATE lsu too!!!!!!!!!!

There actually should be a disclaimer or a waiver to be signed before entering the Acadiana area!

[CajunDawgPound]

Forgot to mention it before, 1 thing you must do when you're in Lafayette is go through a drive through daiquiri. Yes, you read that right, you can drive through some places, get liquor, and drive off, just do not puncture the lid with your straw until you get back to your hotel. Even if you don't like daiquiris, it always shocks people who are visiting Lafayette when I tell them that is actually allowed.

Hate to break this to ya, Tuff, drive through's will be well represented in their state before they cross into Louisiana. We went through one In Hattiesburg yesterday. Went to the Ole Miss regional to watch a nephew on one of the other teams and had a good time. Boring at times, though....too many Baptists, not enough booze and little respect for the National finalists of a year ago who put state of Mississippi baseball on the national stage many moons ago.

This will be a good match up, with our home field advantage being a plus. The Rebs I talked to yesterday think just because #64 beat us 1-zip on Friday that they can mail in their scores for an automatic advance to Omaha. From what I saw, we'll have the edge because of our speed and overall depth at key hitting positions against good pitching, which we both have. We are well rounded in all areas, and if they stumble, we will pounce. He who makes the fewest errors, leaves the fewest stranded on base, and he who doesn't @p@i@s@s off the umpires will win this one.

One thing for sure, it will be good feed for 600 visitors who will have more respect for us before leaving town ... Win or lose.