Lasyone's Meat Pie Kitchen

622 Second St., Natchitoches, LA - (318) 352-3353

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Posted By Michael Stern on 12/20/2008 3:35:00 PM

James Lasyone’s meat pie is a vividly seasoned mélange of pork and beef enclosed in a half-circle pastry crust. It is deep fried until the crust is golden crisp and the moist, seasoned meat inside is steaming hot. Most people get one for lunch, sided by “dirty rice” and a typical southern vegetable such as okra or greens, but it’s not uncommon to see someone having a meat pie at 7am alongside a couple of fried eggs and a pile of warm grits, glistening with melted butter.

Lasyone’s true Louisiana menu also lists fried seafood (shrimp, oysters), red beans and rice with powerhouse sausage, and such non-Creole Dixie classics as catfish platters and chicken and dumplings with cornbread and black-eyed peas. We have eaten first-rate banana pudding for dessert, but the sweet tour de force here is a dish invented by Mrs. Lasyone called Cane River cream pie -- a variant of Boston cream pie, but with gingerbread instead of white cake.

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Overall: Legendary - Worth driving from anyplace

meat pie	dirty rice
Cane River cream pie	red beans and sausage

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"Even though a cup of gravy comes with your meat pie, the pork/beef mixture is moist enough that the gravy is unnecessary. That is dirty rice on the side."
Cliff Strutz

"Named after the local Cane River, this dessert alone is worth a detour to Natchitoches."
Cliff Strutz

"Natchitoches is famous for their annual Festival of Lights. Lasyone's also decorates for the season."
Cliff Strutz

"That's a papier-mache meat pie hanging in the top of Lasyone's front window."
Michael Stern

"The streets of Natchitoches are rich with history. Lasyone's is a vintage eatery that fits right in."
Michael Stern