I'm not a cajun but I LOVE the food. Up here in Seattle, I would love it if there were some more creole food offered. There is a couple of cajun style restaraunts around here but they weren't good.
I guess the bad thing is, I first had creole down in New Orleans back in the 80's when I was there in the Coast Guard. On my off time, my friends and I would drive out to N.O. from Mobile.
The food was just awesome. So I first tried it in N.O. and was spoiled I guess.
So when I was there for Katrina as apart of the Army Guard, we worked so hard and so long that all we got was MRE's and bucket chow. Towards the end of the time I was there, we got to have a day pass to go into 'town'. We were operating in the 9th ward and we didn't leave that area.
So the day comes for my day pass and I had to go with several other soldiers and we were told the rules. We MUST stay together and we can go to NO alchohol serving establishments.
I told them, all I want is some New Orleans food. That's it. That's all I want.
What did these bozo's want? Burger king. Wendy's.
ARE YOU NUTS?? We're in the french quarter of New ORLEANS!!!!!
Let's get some food!!!! REAL food.
When we'd argued long enough, I finally said, you guys can turn me in. There is a restaraunt right there, I'm going NOW. And I walked over there and sat down. They reluctantly followed and sat down.
I ordered, Crawfish Etouffe. They refused to order.
The food was wonderful. I wanted to order another dish but these guys were chomping at the bit to leave.
We went from there to downtown and found a burger king and they ate there.
They didn't know what they were missing.
Real Cajun food is great but its frickin DIVINE when all you've had for a month was MRE's.
This was no restaraunt in Seattle advertising Cajun food, this was the real deal IN New Orleans.