Suire's Grocery & Restaurant

"Friday’s lunch special at Suire’s Grocery & Restaurant in rural Kaplan, Louisiana is always the same: an irresistible stew of local turtle meat simmered for hours in a dark reddish-brown gravy, shiny with the gleam of a well-polished family heirloom. The family-owned spot in Vermillion Parish is famous for plate lunch and staples, long a must-stop for families heading west along the coast to stock coolers with food for their hunting and fishing camps. The Suirre’s are geniuses at rustic, Cajun cooking, smothering, simmering, frying, and baking hearty platters guaranteed to satisfy. If you have a cooler, pick up frozen versions of many of the kitchen’s specialties." - Beth D'Addono