Acadiana Says These Restaurants Have the Best Gumbo

LAFAYETTE, La. (KMDL-FM) - We took to social media and asked about the best "restaurant gumbo" in Acadiana, and the response was overwhelming, with multiple restaurants mentioned as your go-to for both chicken & sausage and seafood gumbo.

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How We Asked Acadiana to Pick the Best Gumbo

We posed a question on our Facebook page to help compile a list of some of the best restaurants to visit if you were hankering for a good bowl of gumbo. We left the question broad to include every type of gumbo.

After a couple hundred comments, we are able to put together a nice list of delicious gumbos you can find at great restaurants across the Acadiana area.

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Restaurants That Almost Made the Top 10

Before we showcase the top 10 choices, we thought it would be fair to mention the honorable mentions -- just-as-great restaurants that received a few good reviews. Those restaurants included:

• Chef Roy’s (Rayne)
• Richard’s (Abbeville)
• The Cajun Table (Lafayette)
• Chicken on the Bayou (Henderson)
• St. John Restaurant (St. Martinville)
• LT’s Seafood (Broussard)
• Dupuy’s (Abbeville)
• Deano’s (Lafayette)
• Vermilionville (Lafayette)
• Poorboy's Riverside Inn (Lafayette)
• Rascal’s (Duson)
• Hai Nam (Abbeville)
• Johnson’s Boucanière (Lafayette)
• Earl’s (Lafayette)
• Mama’s Fried Chicken (Opelousas)
• Tim’s Kitchen (Broussard)

The Top Gumbo Restaurants in Acadiana

And now to the big list. Here are the local restaurants that received the most mentions when it comes to gumbo in Acadiana.