125921 Wed Jan 30 00:54:30 -0800 2002 16 9 New Orleans 0 683341 .the Texaco truckstop out west of the city off the 10 Freeway. No lie! Wed Jan 30 00:54:30 -0800 2002 0 gj 1 683342 While Emeril, Paul, etc. are not going to lose any business to the Texaco truck stop, it does my heart good to hear someone cooking "out in the trenches" getting recognised. I hope some c'hounds follow up on the spot and give their opinions, yay or nay. wray, gone from there but I have not forgotten. Wed Jan 30 07:03:04 -0800 2002 683341 0 wrayb 1 683344 More directions please, I10 west where? Someplace between NOLA and Houston I assume. We like the Amerikan cuisine found at truckstops, we have been surprised with some excellent food, never too terrible. Thanks. Wed Jan 30 12:48:01 -0800 2002 683341 0 Stephan 1 683345 Where???????????????????? Wed Jan 30 14:12:33 -0800 2002 683341 0 mothgirl 2 683356 Sorry but it's an old memory (several years). I'd guess about 10-30 minutes west of Lake Ponchatrain. I went in with little expectation of having anything like a culinary delight, but after digging in to the gumbo it was just fantastic. There can't be *that* many Texaco truck stops along there so tracking it down shouldn't be impossible. Next time I'm in NO I know I will. Thu Jan 31 18:48:25 -0800 2002 683345 0 gj 3 683359 Ahhh. That's cheating. That gumbo cook could have their own restaurant in the quarter by now. Thu Jan 31 21:09:47 -0800 2002 683356 0 wrayb 2 683373 The Texaco truck stop is on Gentilly Blvd near the I-10 EAST not west. Food is excellent, no lie. Sat Feb 02 17:44:35 -0800 2002 683345 0 Charles 1 683370 Don't know about the Texaco--will check it out---but the best used to be at Eddie's on LAw Street. HAve not been there in years, though Sat Feb 02 10:10:57 -0800 2002 683341 0 Hazelhurst 2 683371 I believe Eddie's is gone. Eddie died and by the time we got there it was run by the successors and was not good. (Imagine crunchy underdone rice in the gumbo, for example.) That was about three years ago and I heard it closed shortly after that. Sat Feb 02 17:27:50 -0800 2002 683370 0 Sarah C 3 683375 Ah, gee..that's a shame It was a great place. Well, thanks for the depressing truth. Serves me right for being out of circulation that far downtown. Alas! and damn! Sat Feb 02 20:59:11 -0800 2002 683371 0 Hazelhurst 2 683377 Sigh. Eddie's was my favorite restaurant in New Orleans, and Eddie my favorite chef. His children run Zachary's. It's good, but the gumbo doesn't hold a candle to Eddie's, unfortunately. Sun Feb 03 00:00:24 -0800 2002 683370 0 Dave Feldman 3 683378 I loved Eddies too and it was one of my joints. Loved to take visitors there - great food and loved to see the looks on their faces when they walked in! They would still have a funny look while reading the menu. But all it took was the first bite, and then I would see the happiest look on their faces! Never failed! Eddie's made a mean bread pudding too, theirs was my favorite. Dave, Zachary's is just down the street from my house. They serve a lunch buffet for 6.95 that is quite good. I am not a fan of buffets, but somehow the food they serve holds up quite well. It is pot food, so it only gets better. The one exception is the fried chicken, but they keep it coming, fried freshly every few minutes. It is great fried chicken! The seafood gumbo is made by a different person almost every day, so it's sorta like eating by your mama's, then your Aunt Bea's, then your cousin Dawn's house, you get the idea. I like that! While I will agree that nobody makes gumbo like Eddie's, I have had some really fabulous gumbo at Zachary's in the past month (I have been 3 times). On one occassion it tasted almost exactly like Eddie's! WoW! Damn! Now I have to go to Zachary's for Sunday Brunch tomorrow! Isabella Sun Feb 03 04:57:48 -0800 2002 683377 0 Isabella Maja 4 683381 The talk of the Late Eddies puts me in a reflective mood thinking of the Lost Loves of the City and the region. [I tended to keep Eddie's to myself, hoping the Underground Gourmet and similar whistle blowers would overlook it. It was an open secret, as Uglesich's used to be: now Tony is doing such good business that one has to pass the joint up from time to time. This is good for the family, of course.] But we also had the old La Louisane which, while not as good as many other spots, did offer good political theatre. And Maylie's, which was one of the last true Creole restaurants. It was never the same after the City widened O'Keefe and took the other building but the litle bar was always delightful and the turtle soup was distinguished almost to the end. And brisket, of course, which one finds only at Tujague's these days. Anna May made those wonderful eggs remoulade, too. In the old days you could see cops going over their testimony with the D.A. (the courthouse is right around the corner.) How can you not love a place like that? Smith & Wollensky has done us the incalculable favor of saving the building but I've not been in to see what they have done with the bar. Airline Motors--which had excellent gumbo--changed hands and is competent but that's as far as I'd go. :L'Enfants is RIP, right by Potter's Field, too. And Angelo's in Gulfport came back after Camille but could not outrun Time. There are scores of others in NOLA alone. Racking up dead restaurants is a sign of age, like realizing that they are re-paving a street for the fourth time since schooldays. Sun Feb 03 09:38:00 -0800 2002 683378 0 Hazelhurst 4 683385 Isabella, I'm so happy to hear that (from what it sounds like) tht Zachary's not only is holding its own, but actually improving. I didn't know his kids as well as Eddie, but they seem like good folks. I'm going to make it a point to revisit Zachary's on my next trip. Thanks. Sun Feb 03 13:58:31 -0800 2002 683378 0 Dave Feldman 3 683379 Oh, Dave, if you had made this post before Sat. night chow dinner I woulda told you my Eddie Baquet stories. I have been gone from New Orleans for a long time. And you guys are scaring me, talking about Eddie's kinda in the past tense. For a while their had been an Eddies #2 close by Esplanade & Claiborne. It had been an attempt to be more accessible to the tourists, particularly when the world's fair event thingy was happening. Didn't really work out. I have a feeling that evolved into Zachary's which I know nothing about. Sun Feb 03 06:22:26 -0800 2002 683377 0 wrayb 4 683384 Zachary's is in Carrollton (on Oak St and Carrollton). I first went right after it opened, when Eddie and his restaurant were still alive. Eddie was very proud of his kids. The idea was for Zachary's to be a tablecloth and napkin kind of place, that still served downhome food. The only dish the kids "stole" from their father was the bread pudding, although it wasn't quite as good as their father's. I haven't been back in a while but I take it that, if anything, Zachary's has gone a little downscale. I believe they still serve a lunch buffet and have held the line on prices (when it opened, Zachary's was rather expensive). Eddie made four dishes I've never seen better executed anywhere: gumbo; pork chops; oyster dressing; and bread pudding. Sun Feb 03 13:27:45 -0800 2002 683379 0 Dave Feldman 1 683372 There is not much in the way of truck stops of any description off the I-10 west until you get west of Baton Rouge. Maybe it was out there. We once had wonderful gumbo, shrimp po boy, etc. at a place called King's Truck Stop northeast of Lafayette. Some of those truck stop cafes can be pretty good. Unfortunately most of them now are just chain restaurants. Sat Feb 02 17:31:33 -0800 2002 683341 0 Sarah C