Culinary Corners of Pointe Coupee
Eat your way through a landscape of Louisiana food legacies.
Nestled between the fertile alluvial soils of the Atchafalaya and Mississippi rivers, Pointe Coupee is one of the richest and most diverse agricultural parishes in the state. Its early French, Creole, and African influences can still be traced today in the region's warm, welcoming residents and delicious, camp-type cuisine.
Chefs Samantha and Cody Carroll, the pair behind the mega-popular New Roads joint Hot Tails, have grown from small-time Cajun chefs with a dream to TV celebrities in just a few years by perfecting made-from-scratch fare that feels at once both familiar and entirely new. From being part of Country Roads' inaugural class of Small Town Chefs in 2014, to collaborating as the featured chefs of our 2018 spring Supper Club on Lake Martin, to starring in their own Food Network series, Cajun Aces, the husband-and-wife duo stay busy in and out of the kitchen. Their casual Pointe Coupee eatery sports a Cajun and Creole-centric menu of good food without the fuss, including seafood, poboys, steaks, and burgers.
On New Roads' Main Street, Ma Mama's Kitchen is the place to go for elevated, French-centric seafood dishes and a decadent dessert menu that changes daily, so make sure to leave room for a bite of the bistro's specialty homemade cheesecake (but let's be honest here, there's always room when it comes to cheesecake).
Nightlife out here for the locals typically means frying up the day’s catch and relaxing on the dock. But if you want to see and be seen, as they say, Bueche’s Bar has surprisingly good bar grub and easy lakefront access, meaning great sunset views on the banks of False River. pctourism.org
Photos courtesy of the Louisiana Office of Tourism