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Frankly, I don't understand why a guy at that age would find happiness by leaving his Southern roots and doing the Vegas thing. As a Southerner who's spent a fair share of time out West, I can tell you that Southerners and our cuisine are ridiculed and looked down upon out here, mainly out of ignorance. The South gets a very unfair rap on the West Coast. I hear his restaurant is producing great food in Vegas, but the crowds are still short. I really hope he makes it, since it's the closest place to where I live permanently (San Francisco Bay Area) to get real Lowcountry cuisine. However, there's a reason only two restaurants per 7.5 million people actually serve sweet tea. There's a reason only one out of every 10 soul food joint is in business after two years. West Coast friends of mine still want to visit me when I'm in North Carolina during part of the year so that they can "don overalls" and see all the people with missing teeth and hear banjos while they ride around in hay trucks while shooting 'coon.
Louis should enjoy the balance of his life somewhere where his cuisine is appreciated, not somewhere where he's fighting a battle against unjust perceptions.
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re: mikeh
Cpt Wafer
Jul 31, 2008 11:00 AM
I hear ya.
To me it looks as though he made a poor business decision. I think he went for the lure of big bucks. He opened in LV just as things started to cool economically. Someone has $7,000,000.00 invested there and he needs to make it work. The Pawley's Island location was suffering severely in his absence. Something had to give and it was Pawley's.
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