Kinder, LA

[Lone Star]

We have decided to go to the Grand Casino for a few days after Christmas for a little R&R and to throw some money away on the craps tables.

Are there any noteworthy places to eat there other than the standard casino fare?

We will be driving I-10, so any recommendations are welcome.

I remember stopping in Lake Charles one year and we had lunch at a place with a name something like "Steamboat Willie's". Concrete floors, minimal decor and lots of families eating heaps of crawfish piled on newspapers. Would love to go back there, but am not sure if that is the right name.

They also made these french rolls with etoufee stuffed inside, but I can't remember what they were called either!

(Might have had teensy hangover)

Can anyone help this poor Texan out?

[FistFullaRoux]

The rolls you mentioned are called pistolettes. They are sometimes hard to find. You have to be looking for them.

If you are traveling on a Friday, take the 210 loop in Lake Charles and look for Pitt Grill on Prien Lake Road. A superior seafood buffet on Fridays. Probably a pretty good plate lunch other days of the week, but I've only ever caught it on Friday.

There is a great place for boudin in DeQuincy, but the name escapes me at the moment. It's on Hwy 190, if that would help.

Jennings has The Boudin King. Don't bother. Better food farther east.

[Lone Star]

The rolls you mentioned are called pistolettes. They are sometimes hard to find. You have to be looking for them.

If you are traveling on a Friday, take the 210 loop in Lake Charles and look for Pitt Grill on Prien Lake Road. A superior seafood buffet on Fridays. Probably a pretty good plate lunch other days of the week, but I've only ever caught it on Friday.

There is a great place for boudin in DeQuincy, but the name escapes me at the moment. It's on Hwy 190, if that would help.

Jennings has The Boudin King. Don't bother. Better food farther east.

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Thanks. I wish I could remember the name of the place in Lake Charles that had the pistolettes.

[Lone Star]

Looked in the Yellow Pages -

Steamboat Bills

[ladyyoung98]

im not exactly sure where grand casion is ..however if you are going to be around abbeville...i highly reccomend a restaurant called Blacks..very good food....its a shame you are not goign up alexandria way as there is apalce up around there someplace called tunks..others have a different view of ti than i do...but i love the place

[My Confusing Horoscope]

Kinder's a little north of Iowa, Louisiana. Iowa has Big Daddy's (Cajun restaurant) and I believe a well known boudin or sausage maker at a grocery store there. Small town. Probably can't miss it.

[highchef]

Kinder's a little north of Iowa, Louisiana. Iowa has Big Daddy's (Cajun restaurant) and I believe a well known boudin or sausage maker at a grocery store there. Small town. Probably can't miss it.

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There are 3 steamboat bill's in lake chuck...across from the casino's, down on broad st. (hwy 90) and an 'express' on ryan st, before you get to prien lake rd.

the grocery/boudin/sausage maker in Iowa is Rabideaux's and it's the same exit as the kinder casino, only you go south about 1/2 mile and it'll be right there on the left. great boudin, really good sausage. good pork rinds. As far as kinder is concerned all I know is the casino...

Edited December 21, 2004 by highchef (log)

[Lone Star]

We ate every single meal at Faustos in Kinder. I have to say that I had the best hamburger of my life there - I just could not get over how good it was!

The next day we went back at lunchtime and had hamburger steaks with onion gravy, your choice of baked or mashed potato, coleslaw and a pistolette. Soothed our shocked constitutions. Blackjack and a constant stream of White Russians til 4 am took a toll on our poor old bodies!

Everything we had was wonderful, and beat the heck out of eating in the casino!