Five are in New Orleans, and the last one is down the bayou. What Louisiana restaurants would you add on your bucket list?

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Café Veiller in Gueydan, Louisiana is a popular Cajun restaurant known for its traditional cuisine, family-friendly ...

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This restaurant has everything you could want in a Cajun restaurant from red beans and rice to po' boys and gumbo. Entrees are available on a spice scale of one to 10 (four is fairly mild).

Cajun food is fairly mainstream — and gumbo, jambalaya and bread pudding can be found on restaurant menus nationwide. But one dish – gravy – has remained something of a hidden gem of Louisiana.

Most of the 18 restaurants on the Cajun Bayou Food Trail are strung out along Louisiana Highway 1, a two-lane blacktop that runs for 72 miles from Thibodaux south to the Gulf at Port Fourchon.

Most of the 18 restaurants on the Cajun Bayou Food Trail are strung out along Louisiana Highway 1, a two-lane blacktop that runs for 72 miles from Thibodaux south to the Gulf at Port Fourchon.

Cajun food developed out of a mix of Spanish, French and African cultures. While the birth of Cajun cooking is thought to have taken place in the South, other parts of the United States have been ...