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Buc-ee’s Is Opening Its First Location in This State: ‘Finally Happening’

The travel center chain is opening its first location in Louisiana on Monday, Nov. 9 in Lafayette

Louisiana · 12h
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The Best Restaurants for Gumbo in South Louisiana

From Lafayette to Abbeville, Crowley to Opelousas, these are the local South Louisiana restaurants that you say are serving up the best bowls of gumbo.

Louisiana · 1d

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This Tiny Louisiana Mexican Restaurant Is Known For Tamales That Locals Line Up For

The tamales here come out of a food trailer, and that’s pretty much the whole setup. Easy enough to understand, right? Although it does explain why nobody is bragging about the chandeliers. This Louisiana stop keeps its focus right where it belongs. Tamales share the order window with tacos,...

Louisiana · 1d
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These 10 Louisiana Meat Markets Make Stocking The Freezer A Delicious Road Trip

The turducken, that famous turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken, traces back to a hunter’s request at a small butcher counter in 1984. One guy walked in with three birds and a wild idea. A holiday legend was born. I love that a meat counter can...

Louisiana · 3d
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Buc-ee’s breaks ground in Louisiana

Buc-ee’s is set to break ground on its Lafayette, Louisiana, location on Nov. 9, the company announced last week. The 74,000-square-foot store is one of two in the works in the Pelican State. A location in Ruston is expected to open in 2027 while the Lafayette location is slated to open its doors in 2028.

Lafayette, LA · 3d

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Mother Dear's Bakery in Zachary Bakes Teacakes the Way a St. Francisville Mom of 11 Did

Some bakeries chase trends. Mother Dear's Bakery in Zachary is built around one thing: the teacake, made from a family recipe that goes back to a sharecropping household on Cedars Lane in St. Francisville. The Family Behind the Name. "Mother Dear" was Susie Barrow Morgan, wife of Earnest Morgan Sr....

Zachary, LA · 1d

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6 Things Louisiana Law Says About Selling Homemade Food

Under Louisiana’s homemade food rules, you can sell a pecan pie from your kitchen. A meat pie is another story. With Thanksgiving on Nov. 26, it’s a good time to know the rules before the orders come in. Here’s what Louisiana law says about selling homemade food, so...

Louisiana · 2d

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Liberty House Specialties in Clinton: Morning Coffee and Cinnamon Rolls, Evening Ice Cream, All in a Building From 1868

Headed up to Clinton? Plan a stop on Liberty Street. Liberty House Specialties, at 11652 Liberty Street, runs two shops in one: a coffee and breakfast cafe in the morning and a scoop shop in the evening. The building has its own story. According to the shop, Liberty House dates...

Clinton, LA · 1d

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Louisiana Folks Have Strong Opinions About These 5 Fast Food Chains. Are They Right?

Louisiana sets a high bar for fast food. In a state where Popeyes started in New Orleans in 1972 and drive-thru meals compete with po’boys, boudin, and gas-station fried chicken, people tend to have sharper opinions than most. Popeyes is still the standard for chain fried chicken Andres Segura/Pexels Popeyes opened in Arabi, near New…

Louisiana · 2d

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These 14 Italian Restaurants In Louisiana Deserve A Place On Your 2027 Dining List

One Italian restaurant on this list still runs on cash only, and you have to reserve by phone. The same family has kept it going since 1946, and the fourth generation runs it now. Another one covers its walls with hundreds of copies of the most famous painting in the...

Louisiana · 2d

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This Louisiana Ice Cream Shop Is The Last Of A Legendary Chain Saved By A Local Family

Every other shop in this famous ice cream chain has closed, and only one still scoops. The survivor sits in Louisiana, inside a building that once worked as a milk-cooling station. The Library of Congress even documented the place. That’s a lot of attention for a spot that sells banana...

Lafayette, LA · 1d

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This might be the oldest thing in Iberia Parish.

Two friends from New York, one surprise gift and nearly a thousand years of history.

Iberia Parish, LA · 2d

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This Louisiana Hot Sauce Factory Tour Ends At A Store Full Of Unexpected Finds

Hot sauce ice cream is sitting in a freezer at the end of a factory tour, and people actually line up for it. That alone tells you this stop plays by its own rules. The same spot bottles roughly 700,000 bottles of a world-famous pepper sauce every single day. The recipe still sticks to three simple ingredients: peppers, vinegar, and salt.

Louisiana · 1d

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Pot & Paddle Jambalaya Kitchen: Daily Plate Lunch Specials and Jambalaya Coolers That Feed 25 or More

Feeding a crowd this holiday season? Pot & Paddle Jambalaya Kitchen has built its business around exactly that, with jambalaya, pastalaya, gumbo and beans sold by the bowl, the box, the bucket and the cooler. A Plate Lunch Rotation. The weekday lunch specials change by the day and each runs...

Baton Rouge, LA · 1d

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Skipping the Long Stir? These Seven Jarred Roux Will Get Your Gumbo Started

Seven jarred roux for Acadiana gumbo, from Savoie’s in Opelousas to Lafayette’s own Ragin’ Cajun. Where does your go-to land?

Lafayette, LA · 8h

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The Dough House on Airline Highway: Scratch-Made Kolaches, Breakfast Tacos and Party Trays Every Morning

Early shift on the Airline Highway side of town? The Dough House opens at 6 a.m. every day, and its dough is made from scratch each morning for a lineup of sweet and savory kolaches, breakfast tacos, cinnamon rolls and more. The shop opened in summer 2021 as the Airline location of The Kolache Kitchen and took the name The Dough House in November 2024.

Baton Rouge, LA · 1d

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Swig to host Baton Rouge grand opening on Friday, offering customers free drinks all day

On Friday, Swig will host its grand opening for its new Baton Rouge location on Village Market Street. Attendees will have the opportunity to get free 24-ounce drinks between 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Drink selections include refreshers, energy drinks and dirty sodas, though the blended drinks will not be offered to ensure quick service.

Baton Rouge, LA · 1d

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For Decades, This Louisiana Family Served Soul Food In America’s Oldest Black-Owned Business

This restaurant has gone by at least four different names, and one family has kept the kitchen running through every single one. Although that’s quite a thing to casually mention, it gets better. The family began feeding the public in 1921. Five generations later, they still run the place.

Shreveport, LA · 1d

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Baton Rouge restaurants, stores offer Thanksgiving catering and to-go orders

Make this year's Thanksgiving holiday gathering easy: Order the whole meal from a Baton Rouge restaurant or store.

Baton Rouge, LA · 1d

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Crawford's Restaurant Has Been Frying Fish on Staring Lane Since 1984: Plates, Po-Boys and Party Trays to Know

Some Baton Rouge restaurants chase trends. Crawford's Restaurant has spent more than 40 years perfecting one thing: a basket of fried fish. The family-owned spot at 1980 Staring Lane opened in 1984, and the menu still revolves around what the kitchen simply calls Crawford's fish. Start with the fish. The...

Baton Rouge, LA · 1d