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500 Po Boys: Cafe Dauphine

Soft Shell Crab Po Boy From Cafe Dauphine In New Orleans

The last time we ate food from the kitchen of Cafe Dauphine we left the restaurant only to take a post-prandial navigation through a gang of errant dirt bike riders in the lower 9th Ward.

By now those riders are famous; mainly for getting themselves killed as they zoom up and down the byways of New Orleans with nary a care in the world.

That ‘come what may’ attitude serves them well until they’re sliding face first down the tarmac at 60mph. Continue Reading

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500 Po Boys: Betsy’s Pancake House

Elizabeth “Betsy” McDaniel of Betsy’s Pancake House

Some po boy articles come with a heavy freight. We’ve been eating at Betsy’s Pancake House since the 90s, and can’t help but think about Miss Betsy every time we walk through those doors.

Elizabeth “Betsy” McDaniel was killed in a home invasion in the New Orleans suburb of Marrero in the Spring of 2008. Bryant Boudoin was sentenced to life in prison for the crime. Continue Reading

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500 Po Boys: 2017 Gheens Bon Mange Festival

Queen Gabrielle Price at the 2017 Gheens Bon Mange Festival

Driving 120 miles for a fried catfish po boy is part and parcel of our 500 po boy mission. We could stay in New Orleans, and arguably eat a better version of the Louisiana staple at any number of our old 9th Ward haunts but Lafourche Parish beckoned.

It was the 44th edition of the legendary Gheens Bon Mange Festival his past weekend. For the non-Francophones, bon mange means good eats, and that’s exactly what’s offered in the unincorporated community of Gheens, Louisiana. Continue Reading

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500 Po Boys: Miss Connie’s Charbroiled Oysters At Little People’s Place

Little People’s Place 1226 Barracks St; New Orleans, Louisiana 70116

It’s been a quarter century since charbroiled oysters hit the menu at Drago’s Seafood Restaurant out in Metairie. Since then hundreds of cooks, chefs, housewives, dockhands, and oystermen have all taken a crack at what has become one of southern Louisiana’s archetypal dishes. Continue Reading

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500 Po Boys: Bon Creole Lunch Counter In New Iberia Louisiana

Bon Creole Lunch Counter In New Iberia, Louisiana

“Who killed the buffalo that’s hanging on the wall over there?”

“Mr Randy, but I forgot where he was when he killed it”

Randy Montegut opened Bon Creole as a crawfish processing plant in 1982. As the business evolved it grew into one of the most famous restaurants in Acadiana. It’s storied, beloved, and regularly the locus of fevered roadtrips from all across the South. Continue Reading