Food & Fun

Grand Coteau

H.L. "Polo" Stelly Produce - Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive Large shipper of fruits and vegetables.

The Garden at Grand Coteau – 358 Martin Luther King Drive Fresh herbs.

Catahoula's Restaurant - Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive Fine dining with an emphasis on Cajun and Creole dishes. Signature dishes include Louisiana softshell crab, fried okra and crawfish salad, oysters Catahoula, and duck boudin.

Gram's Country Kitchen – 206 John Street Country Creole cuisine featuring crawfish éttouffée, chicken fricassee, jambalaya, barbecue, and other dishes.

Sunset

Community Store – Napoleon Know for its homemade French bread.

Menard's Slaughter House - 100 Marie Street Noted for Cajun sausage.

Rowena's Grocery and Meat Market - Louisiana Highway 182 Country grocery noted for Cajun sausage, boudin, and gratons (cracklins).

Barry's Kitchen – Napoleon Avenue Noted for homemade crawfish pistolettes.

Dairy Freeze – Napoleon Avenue Established in the 1950's.

Opelousas

Billy's and Ray's Grocery – 887 Vine Street Featuring smoked sausage, cracklins, and boudin, including crawfish boudin.

The Boudin House and Whitney's Specialty Meats – 8202 Louisiana Highway 182 Specializing in cracklins and boudin.

Tony Chachere's “Cajun and Creole Products” – 533 North Lombard Street Founded by Tony Chachere and world renown for its Creole Seasoning. Chachere was also the author of the popular Cajun Country Cookbook.

Lou Ana Foods – 731 North Railroad Avenue Producer of vegetable oils and other products that are sold world-wide. Founded in 1894, this company now is owned by Ventura Foods.

Mudhouse Foods, Inc. – Post Office Drawer 592, Opelousas 70570 Producers of Grandma Rena's Cajun Seasonings and Gourmet Hot Sauces.

Soileau's Grocery – 1124 North Main Street Featuring a variety of Cajun stuffed meats and sausages.

Targil – 290 Wartelle Street Producer of sausage and boudin seasoning, injection sauces, and other spices.

Yoo-hoo Chocolate Drink America's chocolate drink.

Ardoin's Café Acadiana – 732 South Union Street Featuring Cajun cuisine.

Ardoin's Seafood Restaurant – 8172 Louisiana Highway 182 Featuring Cajun seafood dishes, plate lunches, and po-boys.

The Boudin House and Whitney's Specialty Meats – 8202 Louisiana Highway 182 Featuring Creole-style plate lunches.

Café Acadiana – 765 South Union Street Featuring plate lunches and po-boys.

Dee's Café – Cane Street Featuring Creole dishes and plate lunches.

Jim's Seafood – 1011 North Main Street

Kelly's Diner – 1531 South Union Street Featuring Cajun and Creole cooking and plate lunches.

Mickey's Home Cooked Meals – 1109 North Main Street Featuring plate lunches and ribs.

The Palace Café – 135 West Landry Street Venerable restaurant established in 1927 and featuring Cajun and seafood specialties, including some renowned dishes such as “Pete's fried chicken salad” and “stuffed eggplant with crabmeat dressing topped with crawfish étoufée”.

Ray's Diner – 2979 South Union Street Featuring plate lunches.

Soileau's Dinner Club – 1620 North Main Street Featuring an array of Cajun dishes and famous for its crawfish specialties and “Catfish Opelousas.”

Too-J's Restaurant – 4501 I-49 South Featuring Cajun cuisine.

Opelousas Area

Aggie's – Saizon Street, Port Barre Homemade sausage, boudin, and tasso.

Arnaudville Seafood, Arnaudville Specializing in live and peeled crawfish.

Guidry's Produce – Arnaudville Producer of pre-cut vegetable seasoning blends.

Champagne's Marché – 3802 Louisiana Highway 31, Leonville Featuring a variety of Cajun stuffed meats, sausage, boudin, and Cajun seasoning.

Bourque's Supermarket – 581 Saizan Street, Port Barre Specializing in Cajun meats, boudin, cracklins, and home of the original Jalapeno Sausage Cheese Bread.

Joeffery and Bonnie's Country Store – Louisiana Highway 35, Lawtell Traditional south Louisiana country store established in 1938. It is noted for its boudin and as a gathering place for local residents.

Prudhomme's Pub – Louisiana Highway 190, Lawtell Featuring homemade boudin and tasso.

Russell's Grocery Store – Front Street, Arnaudville Noted for stuffed meats.

Savoie's Grocery and Pork Products – Old Port Barre Road Traditional south Louisiana country store established in the 1930's. Noted for its smoked sausage and other pork products. Also serves as offices for Savoie's Sausage Kitchen. See www.realcajun.com.

Duo's Produce – U.S. Highway 167 (between Opelousas and Washington) Featuring vegetables, fruits, sweet-dough pies, local honey, boudin, and cracklins.

King's Jambalaya Café – U.S. Highway 190 East, Port Barre Featuring Opelousas Baked Duck.

Lee's Cajun Kitchen – 408 Market Street, Arnaudville Specializing in Cajun food, including marinated seafood, seafood platters, po-boy's, and barbecue on Sundays. Foods Myran's Maison de Manger – 1023 Neblett Street, Arnaudville Featuring plate lunches and seafood dishes.

Washington

Ardoin's Grocery and Market – 321 North St. John Street

Mud House Foods

Roy J. Soileau Country Grocery – 3208 Louisiana Highway 103 Featuring boudin and tasso.

Steamboat Warehouse Restaurant – 513 North Main Street Located in an historic warehouse building from the steamboat and cotton era and overlooking Bayou Courtableau, this quasi-upscale restaurant features a variety of Traditional Cajun dishes, seafood, and steaks. One classic here is a rib eye steak topped with crawfish étouffée.

Citgo – 311 North Main Street Small lunch counter and Cajun plate lunches like chicken fricassee.

Ole School Café – 210 Church Street Located within the O'Connor's Antique School Mall, this 50's style café features home-cooked meals and desserts.

Krotz Springs Area

Atchafalaya Basin Seafood – Krotz Springs

Dugas' Grocery and Café – Fontenot Street, Melville Featuring sausage and boudin.

Louisiana Premium Seafood – Louisiana Highway 10, Palmetto

Savant Seafood and Grocery Store – LaFleur Street, Melville

Stelly's Supermarket – U.S. Highway 71, Lebeau

Danny's Seafood and Steakhouse – U.S. Highway 190, Krotz Springs Home style cooking and shrimp étouffée.

Dugas' Grocery and Café – Fontenot Street, Melville Featuring po-boys.

Granny and Poppa's Place – 8th Avenue, Krotz Springs Home-style plate lunches.

Susie's Diner – 306 Church Street, Melville

Rayne

Creole Restaurant – 204 West Branch Street Regionally renowned Cajun barbecue and rice dressing, boudin, and cracklins.

Frog City Café – 1131 Church Point Highway Owned and operated by noted Chef Roy Lyon, this restaurant offers a variety of Cajun dishes, many with a French flair.

Frog City Travel Plaza – 1418 North Polk Street

Gabe's Cajun Food Restaurant – 1410 The Boulevard

Rayne Area

Frugé Cajun Crawfish – Post Office Box 393, Branch, Louisiana 70516 Mail order crawfish and other Cajun products. See www.cajuncrawfish.com.

Hawk's Restaurant – 415 Hawk's Road, Branch Noted throughout Acadiana as one of the best locations for boiled crawfish.

Church Point

Acadiana Fine Foods, LLC – 329 South Main Street Cajun-style favorite entrees and meats.

Richard's Cajun Foods – Post Office Drawer 414, Church Point

Vautrot's Mini Mart – 227 Percy Road

Cajun Lube Express and Café – 9515 Church Point Highway Cajun plate lunches and short-order grill.

Downtown Café – 205 South David Street Specializing in Cajun cuisine and home-style cooking.

French Quarter Café – Louisiana Highway 95 Featuring Cajun cuisine.

Sunny's Fried Chicken – 111 East Ebey Street Featuring down-home Southern fried chicken.

Vautrot's Mini Mart – 227 Percy Road Featuring Cajun cuisine.

Crowley

Rice City Liquor Store – 630 North Parkerson Avenue Established in the 1940's, this venerable establishment sells homemade specialties such as Cajun meat pies, hot tomales, and chicken salad sandwiches.

Frugé Aquafarms – 525 East 8th Street Specializing in mail order sales of fresh shrimp and live crawfish.

L'Acadie Restaurant – 322 South Eastern Avenue A culinary celebration of the community's Acadian heritage.

Downtown Café – 414 North Parkerson Avenue Featuring a variety of Cajun specialties, plate lunches, and down-home cooking.

Boudin King Cajun Way Family Restaurant – 1805 North Parkerson Avenue Specializing in Cajun dishes such as gumbo, boudin, seafood, and poboys.

Rice Palace Cajun Restaurant– 2015 North Cherokee Drive Featuring a variety of Cajun dishes.

Tooties – 2307 North Parkerson Street Family-style restaurant specializing in Cajun dishes.

Fezzo's Seafood and Steakhouse – 2111 North Cherokee Street Specializing in steaks and Cajun seafood dishes, including crawfish, shrimp, oysters, and crab. Also notable are traditional country breakfasts, plate lunches, and poboys.

Frosto – 228 North Avenue G Fifties-style drive-in diner featuring Cajun poboys, soft-serve ice cream, and other favorites.

Golden d'Lite – 528 South Eastern Avenue Featuring Cajun poboys and traditional plate lunches.

P.J.'s Grill – 2106 North Parkerson Avenue Serving poboys, other Cajun specialties, and boiled crawfish when in season.

Eunice

Cormier's Sausage Kitchen – 3457 U. S. Highway 190 Noted for Cajun sausage and delicious sweet dough pies.

Highway 13 Food Mart – 1894 Veteran Memorial Highway Specializing in Cajun smoked meats, boudin, cracklins, and homemade sausage.

Johnson's Grocery – 700 East Maple Street Neighborhood grocery established in 1937 and purported by many to sell the best boudin in Acadiana. Also specializing in home-made sausage, beef and pork tasso, and, in the winter, gumbo “to go.”

LeJeune's Sausage Kitchen – 108 Tasso Circle (off Old Crowley Road) World renown for Cajun smoked sausage and tasso.

Popillion Boudin Kitchen – 789 Guillory Road Noted for Cajun boudin.

Superette Slaughter House – West Maple Avenue Featuring specialty meats and boudin.

Allison's Hickory Pit – 501 West Laurel Avenue Among the best in Southwest Louisiana barbecue.

Chatterbox Restaurant – 1141 East Laurel Avenue Cajun cooking “at its best.”

DeBarge's – 101 Veterans Drive Featuring boiled crawfish, pistolettes, and plate lunches.

D. C.'s Sports Bar and Steakhouse – 1601 West Laurel Avenue Features Cajun dishes.

Jimbo's – 731 West Laurel Avenue Specializing in po-boys.

Joni's Cajun Connection – 1415 East Laurel Avenue Traditional Cajun dishes.

Lil' Oleander – 801West Laurel Street Traditional dishes, lunch specials, and Louisiana barbecue on Sunday.

Mama's Fried Chicken and Restaurant - 1640 West Laurel Avenue Featuring fried chicken and Cajun dishes.

Mathilda's Country Kitchen – 611 St. Mary Road Featuring 'home style' Creole dishes and barbecue.

Nick's on Second – 123 South Second Street Historic restaurant and bar dating from the 1930's.

Pelican Restaurant – 1501 West Laurel Street Traditional Cajun dishes.

Ronnie's Seafood Market – 420B East Maple Avenue Featuring fried seafood, shrimp and crawfish étouffée and other plate lunches, poboys, boiled crawfish, and boudin.

Ruby's Café – 221 West Walnut Street A Eunice tradition featuring “home cooked” meals for nearly fifty years. Established in 1952.

Eunice Area

Mowata Grocery Store – Mowata Traditional south Louisiana country grocery store. It is noted for its boudin.

Tee Bay's Sausage Kitchen – Basile

Prairie Cajun Meat Market – Basile

Vidrine's Meat Market – Basile

D. I.'s Restaurant – Louisiana Highway 97 (South) Traditional Cajun dishes and specializing is crawfish from their own ponds. Specialties include boiled crawfish and barbecue crabs

Mamou

Jay Fontenot's Crawfish – 1769 L'Anse Meg Road Wholesale vendor of live crawfish and crawfish tails.

Mamou Seafood – 516 South Street Vendor for live crawfish and crabs, oysters, shrimp, and turtle meat.

Mamou Superette – 1012 Sixth Street

Mel's Grocery – Louisiana Highway 13 Specializing in fresh and smoked meats, including Cajun stuffed meats, homemade sausage, boudin, cracklins, and tasso.

Saucier's Sausage Kitchen – Meg Road

Carl's Seafood and Steak – 427 Sixth Street Featuring Cajun seafood dishes.

Celestine's Barbecue – Sixth Street Featuring Creole barbecue.

Mamou Seafood – 516 South Street Featuring Cajun-style plate lunches, po-boys, and boiled crawfish and crabs.

Town-n-Country Deli – 328 East Street

Ville Platte

Jack Miller's – 646 Jack Miller Road World renown for its barbecue sauce, “The Bar-B-Que Sauce with a Cajun Accent”, since 1955. Other products include Cajun Bar-B-Que Seasoning and Cajun Cocktail Sauce. See www.jackmillers.com.

Pig Stand Bar-B-Q Sauce – 517 East Beauregard Street Renown Cajun barbecue sauce.

B&S Meat Market – 1914 East Main Street Specializing in fresh and smoked meats, Cajun smoked sausage and tasso, and boudin.

Deshotel Meat Market – 1020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive Noted for its “hot and spicy” Creole boudin.

Deville Seafood – 805 Derouen Street

Bernard “Big” Fontenot's Grocery – 313 Evangeline Street Noted for smoked sausage.

Frank Fontenot Meat Market – 401 Southeast Railroad Avenue Featuring fresh and smoked meat, and specializing in sausage and boudin.

John's Food Mart – 1075 Chicot Park Road Specializing in fresh and smoked meats.

June's Seafood Market – 618 South Chataignier Street

L&V Superette –705 West Cypress Street Featuring smoked meats, sausage, boudin, cracklins, and tasso.

Luke's Meat Market – 209 Tate Cove Road Known for its smoked meats, Luke's ships anywhere.

Ortego's Food Lane – 209 Northeast Railroad Avenue Featuring fresh and smoked meats, boudin, and tasso.

Paul's Meat Market and Grocery – 1319 Chataignier Road (Louisiana Highway 29) Specializing in smoked meats such as tasso, ponce, sausage, and marinated meats. Also featuring boudin and the best cracklins in the area.

T-Boy's Slaughter House, Meat Market, and Grocery – 2228 Pine Point Road

Teet's Meat Market – 2144 West Main Street Specializing in boudin and some of the best smoked meats in the area, including tasso and sausage.

Weelo's Grocery and Meat Market – Chataignier Road (Louisiana Highway 29) Featuring beef jerky.

Ardoin's Country Cooking – 212 East Jefferson Street

B&S Kajun Kitchen – 1914 East Main Street As a part of B&S Grocery and Meat Market, this little diner serves plate lunches, fried chicken, and Ville Platte-style barbecues on Sundays.

Café de LaSalle- 714 East LaSalle Street

Cajun Catfish and Steakhouse – 1452 U.S. Highway 167 North Specializing in seafood, steaks, and boiled crawfish and crabs.

The Catfish Place – 818 South Chataignier Road (Louisiana Highway 29) Featuring fish, shrimp, crabs, oyster, alligator, and frog dishes, including boiled crawfish and boiled crabs.

Crawdaddy's – 135 Crimson Lane

Frosty's – Tate Cove Road

Gator's Boiled Crawfish – West LaSalle Street

Jungle Dinner Club – 1636 West Main Street A local tradition serving Cajun and other specialties, including boiled crawfish. The Jungle Club was formerly a highly popular bandstand.

Kernie's Restaurant – Tate Cove Road

Nena & Ki-Ki – 722 Martin Luther King, Jr. Street Creole plate lunches.

Ville Platte Area

Acadia Crawfish Company – 5676 Vine Street, Chataignier Vendor of live and boiled crawfish.

Bayou Chicot Grocery – Bayou Chicot Featuring smoked meats.

Chapel's Corner Grocery and Deli – U.S. Highway 167, Turkey Creek

Dup's Superette – 5179 Vine Street, Chataignier Specializing homemade sausage, bacon, boudin, and tasso.

J.R.'s Grocery and Meat Market – 1018 Louisiana Highway 13, Pine Prairie Featuring stuffed meats, smoked and fresh sausage, smoked turkey wings, and tasso.

Leger's Grocery – U.S. Highway 167, Turkey Creek Featuring smoked meats, including sausage, and boudin. Foods

Mel's Grocery and Meat Market – Louisiana Highway 13, Redell Featuring country style meat, including sausage, boudin, tasso, and homemade bacon.

Betty's Log Cabin Katfish Kitchen – 6791 U. S. Highway 167, North, Turkey Creek

Bon Appétit – Chataignier Home of the “Cajun Snowball.”

The Crawfish Barn – 1789 Mayeauxville Street, Vidrine

Kernie's Restaurant – Tate Cove Road (Louisiana Highway 1171) Traditional Cajun dishes, including boiled and fried seafood, boiled crawfish, gumbos, crawfish bisque, and étouffée.

Gator's Pizza – U.S. Highway 167, North, Turkey Creek

Tom's Fried Chicken – U.S. Highway 167, North, Turkey Creek