A Mobile dining critic on the road found the Big Easy Grill in Bogalusa, Louisiana, a restaurant destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in St. Bernard Parish and rebuilt next to a Piggly Wiggly.
Tag: gumbo
Baldwin County
On the Causeway, The Bluegill Earns Second Place and No Apologies
A spring 2008 lunch at The Bluegill on the Causeway turned up a respectable gumbo, a properly grilled grouper filet and a plainspoken verdict on where the restaurant ranks among its neighbors.
Local News
A Strip-Mall Kitchen on University Boulevard Lays Claim to Mobile’s Best Gumbo
After years of searching, a Mobile dining critic said in April 2008 that he had finally found a gumbo worth the hunt, at an unassuming po-boy shop at University Boulevard and Cottage Hill Road.
Mobile
Two Meals at The Blind Mule, and Both of Them Were the Last
Stale smoke, a gumbo with no taste and red beans that defied description sent our critic out the door of a downtown Mobile music bar with no intention of returning.
Baldwin County
R & R Seafood Was Written Off by a Reliable Source. The Crawfish Said Otherwise.
A Causeway seafood market that became a restaurant after Katrina exceeded low expectations, with boiled crawfish cooked just right and a shrimp poorboy on New Orleans bread.
Baldwin County
The Captain’s Table: A Fine Place for Politics, a Poor One for Lunch
A burned roux, a jambalaya that resembled microwaved rice and greasy fried green tomatoes left our critic doing something he almost never does: leaving food on the plate.
Local News
Gumbo, Revenge and Mercy: A Mobile Grandmother’s Verdict on Canned Salmon
When a Mobile attorney sent a canned-salmon gumbo recipe to his daughter’s West Coast newspaper column, his mother wrote back with a letter that doubled as a lesson in Gulf Coast culinary orthodoxy.