Welcome to the first blog entry of Southeast Louisiana Restaurant Reviews! I'd like to tell you why I started this Blog. I have been cooking,and eating in restaurants, working in restaurants, managing restaurants, and even owned a couple restaurants. This all started when I was thirteen years old. I started as a dishwasher. I was shell-shocked on the first night that it was busy. The cook/chef, named Emma, hollered to me, "SIZZLERS!" I thought she said "SCISSORS!" I replied that I didn't have any (at the dishwashing station). It wasn't until she walked over, picked up a metal oval platter with food seared to it and said to me, "SIZZLERS! that I realized what she was talking about. So, I quickly scrubbed all two dozen "sizzlers" clean that I had stacked neatly in the corner, and took them to her. Emma just looked at me with disdain and said, "you'll never make it here." About a year later, Emma and I were great friends. She said that I was the best dishwasher that she ever had. I would help her do prep work, and we would joke and laugh the whole time. When it was busy, and I was at the dishwashing station, I would adeptly keep all of the dishes clean, washing sizzlers first, make coffee for the waitresses, take out the trash, make desserts, clean the entire kitchen and put the food away, mop all the floors in the restaurant, clean the rest rooms, and do all of the periodic maintenance inside the building. The owner loved me. Emma loved me. I made $1.25 an hour. I started at $ .75 an hour. I felt like I was raking in the dough. I had more money than the other kids at school! Since then, I have worked at every single position in any kind of food service operation. I also have a degree in business and systems analysis. Don't ask me how that happened. I just went for what I thought would work. Now, I've been out to sea; worked in scientific exploration, worked on the RMS Titanic project for the Discovery Channel, and the thing I know best is food. Funny how that works, eh? In the next blog entries, you'll read about what I have to say about restaurants in and around Houma, Louisiana. I'll talk about the actual quality of the food, as well as the other things that make a visit to a restaurant enjoyable. You may not agree with me, but that's okay. You don't care what I think, and I certainly don't care what you think. It's about opinions. I'm not taking a survey, here. I'm just saying what I think. Hope you can deal with that.