Foodies Of Lafayette Podcast

How Cane River Pecans Became A National Gift Brand

A kid with a pecan cracker and a business card at nine years old grows up to run one of Louisiana’s most recognizable gourmet pecan and corporate gift brands. We’re in Ne

How Camellia Beans Built A 103-Year Legacy In New Orleans

Red beans and rice looks simple on the plate, but the story behind the beans is anything but. We drove to New Orleans to sit down with Vince Hayward of L.H. Hayward Compa

Pancho's: How A Family Turned Hard Times Into A Mexican Buffet Legacy

One family gets one hour to leave their home during the Mexican Revolution, and decades later their name becomes shorthand for a whole generation’s first taste of Mexican

The Family Story Behind Creole Lunch House In Lafayette

Everybody sells hamburgers. So what happens when a retired school principal in Lafayette decides she’s going to build a restaurant around something nobody else is doing a

A Childhood Of Moving Turns Into A Life In Food, Chef Kim from Cafe Sydnie Mae

A chef’s origin story rarely starts with a white tablecloth. Ours starts with a kid making spaghetti and meat sauce at nine, moving every two years, and learning how to w

How Konriko Turned Louisiana Rice Into A Niche Brand

The oldest operating rice mill in the United States is not a museum piece. It’s a working building in New Iberia, Louisiana that still hums, creaks, and ships flavor acro

Judice Inn: How A 1947 Lafayette Burger Stand Became A Community Landmark

A burger can be a history lesson if you know where to listen. We sit down with Acadiana royalty from Judice Inn, one of Lafayette’s most iconic, family-owned restaurants,

How Louisiana Creole Heritage Shapes Food And Community

Somebody told Milton Arceneaux's brother-in-law he was “too dark to be Creole” and it exposed a problem Louisiana still wrestles with: we celebrate culture, but we o

How Sunday Dinner Guys Turn A Meal Into Community

A flood, a rebuilt kitchen, and a decision to use the “good dishes” turned into something bigger than a dinner party. We sit down in Jason Stoner and Steven Rogers’ home

The Louisiana Seafood King: Kris Allen

A dish can taste like Louisiana and still feel brand new, and Chef Kris Allen proves it. We sit down at Sunday’s Soda Fountain to talk with the Pamplona and Gravy chef be

How Roy’s Lemonade Turned One Bad Drink Into A Louisiana Staple

One bad cup of lemonade at an arts and crafts show turns into a decades-long, multi-state business and it starts with a simple thought: “I can make this better.” We sit d

How A Banker Preserved A Lafayette Burger Landmark

A burger can be more than a meal. Sometimes it is a time machine. We’re at the table with Rick Cambray from Ground Pati to figure out why walking into the Johnston Street

The Making Of Jefferson Island’s Iconic Cafe

A lake doesn’t just vanish every day, and a drilling rig doesn’t simply disappear without a trace. From a table at the Jefferson Cafe at Rip Van Winkle Gardens, we hear t

How A Scratch-Made Italian Restaurant Became A Community Landmark: Antoni's Italian Cafe

A restaurant doesn’t last 30 years by accident, and Antoni’s didn’t become a Lafayette staple by chasing trends. We sit down with the original owners to hear how a deep b

How Bon Temps Grill And Whiskey And Vine Took Over Pinhook

Two brothers can spend childhood arguing over breakfast cereal, then grow up to build one of Lafayette’s most talked-about restaurant groups. We’re sitting down with Patr

From Cuba To Puerto Rico To Lafayette With A Sandwich Recipe That Traveled Decades Part Two

A single sentence can haunt you for decades: “I should’ve given you that loan.” We sit down with Jose “Pepin” to follow the full arc behind that moment, from leaving Cuba

Pepin Jose On Food Legacy And Starting Over Part One

He wrote a $50,000 check he couldn’t cover and treated the weekend like a deadline. That’s just one of the stories Pepin Jose shares with us, and it captures the spirit b

Jack Miller’s Origin Story

A bottle of barbecue sauce doesn’t usually come with a war story, a carhop restaurant, and a family passing the keys from one generation to the next but Jack Miller’s doe

Part Two With David Ervin From The Daiquiri Factory

They tried to shut a young business owner down by writing a brand-new law, but they couldn’t even explain what the law meant. We’re back at Sunday Soda Fountain with Davi

Part One With David Ervin From The Daiquiri Factory

The drive-thru daiquiri feels like it’s always been part of Louisiana, but it started as one person’s risky idea and a whole lot of reading. We’re sitting down with Lafay