Don's
-
Had to take the wife to the endocrinologist in Lafayette yesterday, so we dropped in at Don's Seafood down on Johnston to eat lunch. Folks, I haven't eaten at Don's in twenty years.
Menu hasn't changed much. Since 1934.
I don't eat much fried stuff anymore, but I splurged and had a seafood platter. Shrimp, oysters, catfish, a stuffed shrimp and a cup of crawfish etoufee. Stuffed shrimp was probably commercial. Shrimp, oysters and fish were quite good. My wife can make a better etoufee.
She had a shrimp poboy and a cup of seafood gumbo. Poboy was ok, with plentiful shrimp. Gumbo was the same as it's always been...Dark, spicy and pretty durn good.
$41 for lunch.
Not the absolute best, but good. And good value, I thought.
-
The gumbo grows on you. It's the kind that has a very dark roux, making the gumbo almost black, but you didn't get any burned taste. Little spicy, but that went away on about the third bite. Had shrimp and oysters in it, of course, but they had a good bit of crab meat. Crab really makes a seafood gumbo, but a lot of places will skimp on it, because of the expense.
A good chicken and sausage gumbo is home cookin', but a good seafood gumbo is an art.
