The Real New Orleans Style Restaurant

great red beans and rice. I also recommend the fried fish basket. home made tartar sauce I excellent.

We were driving through here on our way from Horseshoe Bay to Fredericksburg during Yarn Crawl '11 and were looking for some good food.  This popped up on my Yelp app just in time to stop.

The decor is pure weird Texas country 70s restaurant in a building attached to a gas station.  There was a giant stuffed bull head over our table and dark wood paneling on the walls.

The place was fairly quiet and really big - room for lots of people but pretty empty in the early afternoon.  The waitress/cashier/hostess was nice as pie and I could hear the guys in the kitchen talking about current events and laughing.  There were some locals having their lunch.  I found it all homey and comforting (despite the creepy dude looking down at us from the wall above)

I ordered a cup of red beans with rice and a fried oyster po boy with a sweet tea.  The red beans were the perfect combination of 'just about to burst but still solid' on nice buttery rice.  The oysters had a great crunchy cornmeal batter with the perfect blend of lettuce, dressing, and french bread that's crunchy on the outside and moist on the inside.

It's a bit of a drive for us but a perfect stop and a great surprise during our crazy roadtrip weekend.

This roadside gem is a perfect illustration of the magic of Yelp!  Thanks to my fellow Yelpers' glowing reviews, my iPhone led my family to this honest-to-God AMAZING restaurant in pretty-much-the-middle-of-nowhere, Texas.  We had spent the morning visiting a kids' summer camp on Inks Lake and were driving to San Marcos when hunger struck.  The girls were watching "The Princess & The Frog" on the DVD player in the back seat--what could be better to compliment their movie than a stop at a New Orleans style restaurant?  I did a "search nearby" on my phone, and this place pops up, literally 30 seconds down the road from where we were driving.  We pulled in and were treated to stellar New Orleans cuisine that absolutely rivaled some of the REAL New Orleans food we sampled on our family vacation there last summer.  Yes, the po boy I had here rivaled Acme's.  The fried oysters were the best I have ever tasted.  The onion rings and rosette sauce were incredible.  Our older daughter's gumbo was chock-full of chicken, sausage, ham and rice, bathed in a dark, smoky roux.  And our youngest daughter's macaroni & cheese was the real deal--a bowl of al dente penne pasta covered in a homemade creamy, cheesy sauce.  I keep thinking about this place and have enthusiastically recommended it to friends who frequent nearby Horseshoe Bay.  The next time you find yourself in Round Mountain, Texas, Pop. 111, stop by and give these dear folks who fled Louisiana after Katrina struck your business.  You'll be glad you did.