Louisiana Crawfish

In planning this trip all Randy was excited to eat crawfish in Louisiana.  Crawfish are like small lobsters, however, lobsters live in salt water and crawfish or crayfish are fresh water.  The south is famous for Crawfish boils and everywhere we ride the roads are populated with signs advertising fresh crawfish from upscale restaurants to literally, out of someones garage.  I'm not kidding, you can buy live or cooked crawfish anywhere.  Crawfish festivals are abundant and all you can eat crawfish is the norm.  

We arrive in Lafayette, LA and after driving past lots of "crawfish boil" signs, we debate about where to go.  In Lafayette, we have lots of choices from historic tourist spots, nice restaurants to dive bars. We cruise around and finally decide on John E's Sports Bar & Grill.  It has a nice patio, with an outdoor firepit and a drive through.





It turns out to be a great choice.  Randy orders 5 pounds of crawfish and he's giddy when they arrive.  He slowly tears them apart finding the yummy tail.  We understand that they best part is the head, but he bypasses that.  I have one- but it looks like too much work to eat so I settle for the crawfish  etouffee  (delicious).  His crawfish is just spicy enough for him and he's so happy!

After dinner the cook comes out to see how we like it - he's wearing a crazy hat with crawfish and alligators on it.  He introduces himself as Captain Tony, Bayou Swamp Tour Guide and invites us to join him on one of us tours.  He's a cook by night and a tour guide by day.  He gave us his card and maybe next time through Louisana, we'll take one his tours.  He cooks a mean crawfish, so he's probably a great guide too.  Next time we're in Lafayette, we're going to look up Captain Tony!