Big Daddy's (Tasty Thursdays)

Another Tasty Thursdays @ Nathan Phillips Square.

I'm fascinated with the Deep South. There's a air of mystery and excitement there: the bayous, the charming Southern hospitality and who can forget the infamous Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans? It seems like there's tons to do and see in the Southern US, so I was excited to try out the New Orleans style cuisine at Tasty Thursdays. Po' Boys (which is short form for "Poor Boy") are crusty French bread sandwiches filled with fried seafood (usually shrimp, crayfish or catfish - based on what they catch in the bayou) and some spicy sauce. It's a sandwich concept: using simple local ingredients that they can get in the South and throwing it together to make a meal out of it.

So, I was expecting a fried catfish sandwich when I saw Catfish Po Boy...

Instead it was a Cajun spiced Catfish burger. 

I was left wondering where the fried catfish goodness was...and it was in a tiny box. 

The fish was okay, the bun was super big and took over most of the sandwich. 

Overall: The line up moved kind of slow considering most of the fish and cornbread were already prepared and placed in the catering containers and the staff just had to put everything together, serve it and take the money. The food was okay, not quite what I was expecting for my Cajun food experience.