127462 Tue Mar 02 15:37:30 -0800 2004 12 9 New Orleans 0 691083 I'm planning a road trip to N.O. from Chicago for the Jazz Fest this year. Based on a prior post, I was thinking about traveling I-90 thru Cajun County up to Lafayette on my way back to Chicago. It will likely be the last day of the Fest, Sunday. Are some, all, most of the food places recommended on this board likely to be open on a Sunday? If not, can you help me narrow down the list? Thanks! Tue Mar 02 15:37:30 -0800 2004 0 Bacchus 1 691085 Zydeco Brunch on Sundays at Cafe des Amies in Breaux Bridge. About 15 minutes before you hit Lafayette. Excellent, highly recommend it. Yvette Tue Mar 02 17:15:51 -0800 2004 691083 0 Yvette 2 691086 Sounds great...thanks for the tip! Tue Mar 02 17:20:25 -0800 2004 691085 0 Bacchus 1 691110 This restaurant on Sundays offers more of a breakfast. Don't get there too late or you will miss the action. Although you can order full meals, the hours of operation are not what a person expects for Sunday brunch. I have made this mistake and it's a big disappointment, because as the other poster said, you should really try to get there. Food, artwork, music - it's memorable. Check their website through the link below. The good thing about getting there early on the date you mentioned is that you will have time to hoof it over to Lafayette after your meal and take in some of the Festival International. Don't go back to Interstate 10, use one of the small roads that winds through the pretty countryside. Bon voyage! Link: http://www.cafedesamis.com/index.htm Wed Mar 03 12:55:32 -0800 2004 691083 0 Beau 2 691138 I'm not sure what time I will manage to leave N.O. (might be a late Sat. night), so I'm not sure I can make the 2:30 pm cutoff for brunch. By the way, how long should it take me to get to this place from N.O.? Any other good places around that are open later? I thought the International Fest was the previous weekend, but it would be great if I'm there during that time. Thu Mar 04 15:51:42 -0800 2004 691110 0 Bacchus 3 691144 Less than 2 1/2 hours, depending on where you are leaving New Orleans from, and the traffic. I regularly make the drive and it's 2 1/2 hours from Lafayette to the outskirts of New Orleans on Interstate 10. (Breaux Bridge is about 20 minutes closer to New Orleans). I thought the cutoff time at Cafe des Amis is earlier than 2:30. Better double check their website are even call before you plan a trip there. Festival International is from April 21-25. It has food courts galore. As to another good restaurant that's open later - there are many and let me think about it. Along the route between New Orleans and Lafayette, before the exit to Breaux Bridge, you pass the exit to Livonia. I don't know the hours of Joe Dreyfus Store in Livonia (a real fine restaurant that occupies the premises of an old plantation store). I do know that it is highly recommended and has the kind of local color people look for when traveling. It's a few miles off the Interstate shortly after you leave Baton Rouge. Maybe it has a website. Maybe another chowhound knows about the Sunday hours at Joe Dreyfus. I can't remember what you originally asked for, but you will also pass Ralph and Kakoo's at one of the exits in Baton Rouge. Thu Mar 04 18:29:24 -0800 2004 691138 0 Beau 4 691153 Thanks very much Beau for the information, it is greatly appreciated! Boy, I really would like to make it to, among other suggestions, Cafe des Amis. Maybe, just maybe, we will have a quiet Saturday night and make it out very early Sunday:) Fri Mar 05 13:47:48 -0800 2004 691144 0 Bacchus 3 691150 Here's a short Sunday list: Abbeville: Dupuis 11-3 Shucks closed Blacks 11-2:30 Mr. Keets 5-9 Richard’s opens at 5pm Cajun Claws (337) 893-9437 If you come via Interstate 49 the Yellow Bowl is open not sure of the hours, I’ve been there on a Sunday afternoon around 4:30 p.m. The Boiling Point - if it opens it won’t be until 5 or 5:30. I’ve been there too early on weekends. Lafayette: Old Tyme closed Don’s open sundays Don’s Hut open sundays Randal’s open at 5 to 930 Café Vermilionville closed Blue Dog 10:30 to 2:00 buffet only Fri Mar 05 10:50:55 -0800 2004 691138 0 Beau 1 691140 Not sure about the Sunday thing, but if it's open go to the Old Time Grocery in Lafayette for a shrimp po-boy. The place is a deli near LSU-Lafayette campus. One of the best things I have ever eaten. Why is it so good? I don't know. It's the classic style: fried shrimps on a white baguette "dressed" with shreded lettuce, tomatoes, mayo, and hot sauce. The secret must be the shrimp (louisiana shrimp seems shrimp-ier) and the bread. Unfortunately, as I recall lots of places were closed on Sunday when I visited a few years ago. I can also second (third?) Cafes des Amis. Thu Mar 04 16:58:01 -0800 2004 691083 0 DevonT 1 691145 Do a search on this board for "Cajun Country". It was a pretty thorough thread that will help you. It's hard to address the Sunday hours of those places, but I'll find some of them and get back. Thu Mar 04 19:00:44 -0800 2004 691083 0 Beau Noppatee 1 691151 Any "Cajun Country" options a little closer to New Orleans - like day trip possibilities? I'm planning a trip and would love to get out of town for something different but don't relish a 2-3 hour drive back to my hotel after dinner. Running the various recommendations through mapquest it looks like Hymels in Convent and Lafitte's in Donaldsonville (maybe too high end) are significantly closer to New Orleans than most of the other spots. Fri Mar 05 12:40:44 -0800 2004 691083 0 bobdrbul 2 691152 Two good choices. I don't know how others will answer you, but I wouldn't make a day trip from New Orleans to see or taste Cajun Country. It's really a separate excursion, more than even an overnight. There are too many things closer that are just as interesting for tourists. The New Orleans hotels have info on River Road tours and St. Francisville is worth a side trip but even that would be incomplete unless it were an overnight. And there is so much to see and explore right in New Orleans. JMO Fri Mar 05 13:46:14 -0800 2004 691151 0 Beau Noppatee 1 691926 Prejean's is my personal favorite. It is located north of I10. Instead of taking the exit into lafayette (south), you take the access road going north (same road)(I49 I think). But if you get there during the festival there will be a representative from just about all of the restaurants there, offerring thier specialties. Mon Apr 19 01:21:50 -0700 2004 691083 0 Lisa Obryant