Posts Tagged Abita

Mara’s Homemade: NOLA in NYC

When you’re from South Louisiana and you live in NYC sometimes you go through withdrawals. Serious withdrawals. For serious Cajun food. Having eaten a number of places in the city that claim to have “Cajun” or “Louisiana” food, Mara’s Homemade was the only place that actually followed through.

The ambiance, the southern hospitality, the menu, and the FLAVOR – Mara’s has it all! Let’s start with the most important: what’s on tap? Abita SOS, Abita Strawberry Harvest, Amber Bock, and AndyGator to name a few! Other beverages include the almighty Hurricane, Mint Julep, Sazarac; I don’t think I need to go any further!

Onto the goods – this is the real deal! Mara’s flies her product in from the Louisiana Gulf: Oyster’s, Crawfish, Alligator, Crabs and Shrimp. Her website boasts, “If you have been to NOLA and had the BBQ Shrimp then you will love Mara’s.” Need a dessert after your gumbo? You know you can’t eat a good Cajun meal without topping it off with an order of beignets!

Mara’s is also serving from a special Mardi Gras menu, and even Jazz Fest favorites as Crawfish Mara, Crawfish Pot Pie, Crawfish Stuffed Bread and Crawfish Cheese Toast!

Mara’s Homemade
342 East 6th Street
New York, NY 10003
(212) 598-1110
http://www.marashomemade.com/

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Cajun Foodie alert: Free boiled crawfish

We already have a lot of love for Roberto’s River Road Restaurant and their unconventional marketing, but I just received this email from Roberto and felt compelled to pass it on:

Well, for the next Five Tuesday nights every table that dines with us will have a chance to enter a name that we will place in a fish bowl. On May 26th we will pull a name for the winner. The winner, (hopefully you), will get a Catered Crawfish Boil from our sister Crawfish Company The Boiling Pot.

It will include 250 lbs of crawfish, and all the usual fixings, corn, potatoes, garlic, mushrooms, etc. All you have to do is pick a date during the month of June (with the exception of father’s day 06/21/09) and invite enough relatives and friends to come and enjoy some of the best crawdads around. (250 lbs will serve 50 to 60. Additional crawfish may be order if desired)

I see this as a win/win scenario. If you are planning on going out for dinner, why not come and dine with us and at the same time have a chance of winning $ 1,000.00 worth of crawfish. I almost forgot, we discount all of our wines 40% on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, so again that’s another great saving you could take advantage of.

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90 Years Young, Still Going Strong at Casamento’s in New Orleans

img00119 150x150 90 Years Young, Still Going Strong at Casamentos in New OrleansSo two nights ago, Lindsay and I were prepared to fulfill our lenten penance filled with heaping quantities of fried or boiled seafood (yeah, I know, what a sacrifice).  We quickly narrowed our options down to a couple of choices – Crescent City Brewhouse, Franky & Johnny’s, or Casamento’s.  Luckily for us, we chose the latter.  I saw this restaurant on the Food Network’s show “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” and I was very intrigued.  We arrive at Casamento’s at 8:00 p.m. to see a line curling out of the door.  The restaurant is located on Magazine near the corner of Napoleon, right next to Miss Mae’s, which caused a good laugh as one of my friends once offered to buy a pretty young lady there a Milwaukee’s Best Light and – 5 years or so later – now they’re engaged to be married.

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Feeling Rogue-ish at the Bulldog Uptown

I am a natural born procrastinator. Recently, I decided I would try to change that because I knew the little lady had a lot on her plate with the wedding planning and all.   I wanted to try to do everything I could to get my stuff done on time so that she would have less to worry about and I figured my wedding  suit would be a good place to start… if had known that my tasks on the wedding planning list included stops at The Bulldog in Uptown New Orleans, I’d have started a long time ago!

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Abita Brew Pub

I have been living across the lake just north of the Big Easy for about a year now and I must say, I have been very disappointed in the food selection.  Sure, there are a couple of places that the fiancé and I enjoy once in a while.  It’s as though there is no love in the cooking here.  Everybody just wants to use big words and fancy ingredients without the slightest clue how to properly implement them.  I have been spoiled living in Lafayette for the previous 5 years where you have to really search for a bad meal.  I have been desperately missing my Laura’s, Julien’s Poboys, and basically every bar in and around town that seem to have my grandmother cooking plate lunches in the back.

Anyway, this lack of gastronomical gratification has forced me to broaden my horizons.  I have reluctantly (yeah right) moved on to something that they obviously take a lot of pride in over here.  That something is Beer! With 2 microbreweries in a 15 mile radius, one of which is run by one of 8 (I think) certified German brew-masters in the United States, surely they know their stuff.  And, of course, I’m not talking about the horrible excuse for a beverage with no taste or character known the world round as “American Pilsner”. You know, that stuff we all drank, and sometimes still do, but never truly enjoyed.  Insert Name Here Light.  I’m talking about beer, malty, hoppy, or balanced, dark, amber or light. Just as long as it taste like something other than dishwater.

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