The Home of the Famous Meat Pie
Lasyone's Meat Pie Restaurant is the place to go for an
authentic Creole/Cajun cuisine experience. A favorite with
the locals and travelers alike, this family-owned and
operated restaurant, famous for their meat pies, lets you
feel like a real Louisiana native the moment you walk
through the door and take in the aroma of good, downhome
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Lasyone's Meat Pie has been recognized and raved about
by a score of magazines including Southern Living, The
New Yorker, Glamour Magazine, and Gourmet Magazine.
Reviews have also included book articles such as Jane &
Michael Stern's Good Food, Jane & Michael
Stern's Road Food, and Calvin Trillin's Third
Helpings. Major newspapers such as The Houston
Chronicle, Times Picayune New York, The Dallas
Morning News, Chicago Tribune, and The News World
New York have found their way to Lasyone's Meat Pie
Restaurant. It has also been featured in many other
national newspapers as well as international papers from
France, Italy, and Spain. It has also made its way on the
national airwaves, having been featured by On the Road
with Charles Kuralt and Good Morning America with
Bryant Gumble as well as many other statewide and Texas
news broadcasts.
The meat pie, although famous and the most popular item
on the menu, is not the only thing that makes this
restaurant a proud favorite. The Cane River Cream Pie is
another treat for the taste buds. Discovered completely
accidently by adding chocolate milk instead of white milk,
Lasyone experimented a little and must have decided that
he had a winner because it too has won rave reviews.
Adding to those already highly recommended fares is the
restaurant's Dirty Rice, Red Beans and Sausage, Chicken
and dumplings, and not to forget the well known Louisiana
Cajun and Creole cuisine that is native to the Lasyone
Family.
Family chefs James and his daughter Angela run the
kitchen, so you know that all the food is prepared and
made the old fashion way, home made. Vegetarian dishes can
be made with no hassle. So make the trek to Lasyone's and
sample the cuisine and friendly environment. With their
down home atmosphere and old family recipes, you can't
help but feel like part of the family, even if it is only
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Though the meat pie is as old as the Civil War, it wasn't
until James Lasyone made this old time favorite famous.
Thirty-three years ago, Mr. Lasyone rented out the bottom
half of a building that once was the home to the Phoenix Lodge
#38, built in 1859.
While the masons still occupied the top portion of the
building, James Lasyone started his Meat Pie Kitchen.
He convinced some of the town's ladies to sell him a few of
their meat pies. He did a little experimenting and came up
with one of his own.
People from all over the world have stopped in to try
Lasyone's meat pie, from local towns folk to Charles Kuralt,
Lorne Greene, Vanna White, Daryl Hannah, and a host of others.
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