Please share restaurants that are on the top of your own personal list. Perhaps a place where you will go out of your way just to have lunch. Or maybe it is the first place you stop when visiting your home city. Maybe it is the taste of home, or something you grew to love. What makes it special? Anywhere in the world. Can be expensive or cheap.
Please provide a Google Maps link, and maybe a picture. I intend to visit some of these.
I'll start:
Old Tyme Grocery in Lafayette Louisiana. Amazing Poboy's. You can never go wrong with the Shrimp or Oyster, but all the meat ones are great too. The taste and quality have not changed in 40+ years. I'd say the price has not changed too much either.
ms gamboolgal and I spent about the first half of our 40 years (so far) marriage working the Oilfields Offshore and Onshore from Jay, Florida to West Texas.
We lived in Mobile, Alabama and Slidell / New Orleans in Louisiana, and Orange, Texas on the East side and way out far West Texas in the Monahans area working all over the Permian Basin and New Mexico and Oklahoma.
We love Gulf Coast and South Louisiana Cajun cooking anywhere below I-10.
We have been stopping off at Old Time Grocery whenever we near to Lafayette for decades to get us Poboys from Old Time. Even if it means going out of our way....
All I have ever gotten and will ever get is the Shrimp and Oyster Poboys !
Their French Bread is "hollowed" out and they pile on the Shrimps & Oysters.
We also recommend stopping at Teets in Ville Platte, Louisiana and get you a quart sized bag of Cracklins.....Pure hardening of the arteries goodness dripping Cracklings....
When I was working Mobil Bay - I would stop off at little local shops on the way home from Billy Goat Hole on Dauphin Island and pick up Shrimp, Oysters and Fish right out of the Bay..... man that was good stuff to come home and put on the Grill or ms gamboolgal to blacken up some fish !
This thread is making me hungry !
Now that were in Months with R's in them..... time to start getting afew dozen Raw Oysters all along the Gulf Coast
We may have to take a Gulf Coast Pokersszzzz Road Trip soon to enjoy the cool Fall Weather and of course we'll include a stop by Old Time and Teets and afew others places for sure !