Canjun drive ed in abbeville la3/15/2024 ![]() ![]() But, as a friend born and bred there told me, "A lot of times, it's a Chili's kind of town." ![]() Sure, there are local spots like T-Coon's, which on Mondays offers rabbit smothered in thick peppery gravy, and The Original Don's Downtown, a fry-heavy seafood house, which serves a fine, clay-colored crawfish bisque. Or, perhaps, to tuck into mounds of rice topped with pork backbone stew at Poche's Market & Restaurant in Breaux Bridge.īut, for all that, Lafayette itself-a city of 120,000 about a two-and-half-hour drive from New Orleans-has held less culinary allure. Maybe in search of the ultimate link of boudin (that pale, ricey, spicy sausage that's debated here with ferocity) or to down plump gulf oysters at Shucks! in Abbeville. It's long been one of the South's great stomach-stretching pleasures to eat outside of Lafayette in South-Central Louisiana, to burn a tank of gas or two zigzagging through Cajun country. ![]()
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