Post Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday/Carnival/Shrove Tuesday events

[Robin Garr]

If you've got 'em, post 'em in this thread. I'll leave it stuck until Ash Wednesday.

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[Robin Garr]

News release:

Let the Good Times Roll for Mardi Gras at Café Lou Lous

Chef-owner Clay Wallace is happy Mardi Gras season is fast approaching after the rough winter we’ve had. In New Orleans, and hopefully here in Louisville this year, Mardi Gras is a sign spring is around the corner. On Friday, March 4, Saturday, March 5 and Tuesday, March 8, both cafes will be celebrating with genuine New Orleans food and drink. Etouffe, red beans and rice, gumbo and jambalaya pasta will be featured along with hurricanes, sazeracs and Abita beer. Mardi Gras music, costumes and maybe even a second line dance will be featured.

The St. Matthews store is located at 106 Sears Avenue. Reservations are available at 893-7776. For the Highlands store, located at 2216 Dundee Road, call 459-9566.

We’re adding Roast Beef Poboys to the menu this year. For the last two years Café Lou Lous have celebrated National Poboy Preservation Days in November to a huge response from our customers. . The history of this wonderful sandwich/meal is that during a violent 1929 streetcar strike, as union workers walked off their jobs,one shop owner pledged a sandwich and coffee for the ‘poor boys’ who were on strike. Today’s sandwich hasn’t changed much at all and will be served at the Lou Lous.

Please join us to mark the beginning of the Lenten season and to enjoy good food, good cocktails and of course, good fun! Reservations suggested, St. Matthews, 893-7776 or Highlands, 459-9566. Laissez les bons temps rouler! Let the good times roll!

Louisville Area J. Gumbo's Mardi Gras Specials

$12.95 All You Can Eat Entrees

Free Mardi Gras Beads

Delicious King Cakes

$2 Abita Root Beer and $10 Mardi Gras T-Shirts



Participating Locations


Clifton 2109 Frankfort Ave. 502-896-4046

Audubon 3017 Poplar Level 502-690-8080

Lyndon 533 Lyndon Lane 502-425-0096

Hurstbourne 8603 Citadel Way 502-493-4720

The COACH LAMP RESTAURANT & PUB,751 Vine Street,will be celebrating Fat Tuesday with a New Orleans themed buffet from 11:00 am until 9:00 pm.

Buffet items will include:

CHICKEN & SMOKE SAUSAGE JAMBALAYA
SHRIMP CREOLE
NEW ORLEANS STYLE WHITE RICE
FRIED CATFISH
HUSH PUPPIES
COLE SLAW
CORN MAQUE CHOUX
BREAD PUDDING W/BOURBON SAUCE
This will be an all you can eat buffet priced at 19.95.
Hurricanes and beau coup ice cold Abita Beer will also be available.
Come on down to the COACH LAMP and help us celebrate Fat Tuesday.

Selena's at Willow Lake Tavern
10609 Lagrange Road
(502) 245-9004

Come celebrate kickoff of the greatest week of the year with New Orleans traditions at Selena's. Live crawfish flown in from Louisiana, Beignets and King Cake served all day! Enjoy Roast Beef Po-boys for lunch and Grouper Bienville for dinner. Dixie and Abita Beer specials, $6 Hurricanes in a special souvenir glass. Get the baby out of your King Cake and receive a gift bag and good luck for the year. Call Selena's at (502) 245-9004 for reservations. Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez!

Thanks to all who attended the Fat Tuesday festivities at the Coach Lamp yesterday,you made it a hugely sucessful day and the beginning of what we hope to be a yearly event.A good time and good food was had by all.Thank you from the staff at the Coach Lamp.

And a hearty thanks as well to all who came out to our stores and celebrated Mardi Gras with us! We appreciate the support and your business!