Order counter at The Best Stop in Katy
The Best Stop in Katy sells all manner of Cajun goods.
Bottled sauce is one offering at The Best Stop in Katy.
The Best Stop opened its first Texas location in Katy in December.
Houston has no shortage of Cajun restaurants. But when many of the famous foods from Southwest Louisiana cross the Sabine River into Texas, they often adopt flavors and characteristics of the Lone Star State.
Take boudin, for example. In Texas, boudin contains more rice than meat, and usually features whole grains of rice that are loosely-packed in the casing. This reflects the rice-growing tradition of Southeast Texas. Boudin in Texas is often smoked and featured at barbecue joints. It even has its own spelling — “boudain” with an “a” — that’s mostly seen around Beaumont.
The Best Stop Katy
806 Katy Fort Bend Road, Katy; 346-615-0700
Open daily.
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Louisiana boudin is usually steamed with a filling that features pork shoulder and liver, and rice that’s been finely ground, almost to the consistency of a paste.
Until recently, finding classic Louisiana-style boudin could be a challenge in greater Houston. That changed this past December when an outpost of Scott, Louisiana-based The Best Stop Cajun Market opened in Katy.
“Our boudin has more meat and spices,” says owner Robbie Abrusley, who partnered with longtime friend John Mendell to bring this franchised location of The Best Stop to Katy.
Abrusley is originally from Oakdale, Louisiana, and attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He moved to the Katy area in the late '90s to work in real estate and oil and gas ventures.
When driving back-and-forth between Texas and Louisiana he made regular stops at the original location in Scott, filling up a cooler with boudin, smoked sausages and bottles of Cajun Power garlic sauce. And he’d get a bag of pork cracklins to snack on for the rest of the ride home.
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When the original owners of The Best Stop, the Cormier family, announced they would franchise the business, Abrusley jumped at the opportunity. He gives credit to the Cormier family for their hands-on assistance in opening the Katy location.
What they have created is a remarkable copy of the original location in Scott, with a selection of the most authentic Cajun products and dishes this side of the Sabine.
There is a dizzying menu of both prepared and packaged foods, following the tradition of the “superette” markets of Southwest Louisiana. You can get classic Cajun-style smoked boudin by the pound, as well as original and mild versions.
Big piles of pork and chicken-skin cracklins sit under heat lamps along with fried boudin balls and crawfish pies. There are burger patties slathered with Cajun-style barbecue sauce and infused with boudin. For breakfast there is a perfectly-baked biscuit topped with a slab of boudin, bacon, a fried egg and drizzled with honey. The crawfish etouffee is some of the best in the city.
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But my favorite dish is the smoked sausage po-boy. The is a sausage shipped in from Louisiana that’s butterflied and crisped on a flat-top grill and stuffed into a Gambino’s-brand po-boy roll and served with pickles, onions and a spicy Cajun mayo sauce. It’s an addictive taste of Cajun country transplanted to Southeast Texas.
Additionally, this being a fully-stocked food market, there’s plenty of items to take home with you. All the Cajun brands are here: Tony Cachere’s spices, Cajun Power sauces, cans of Steens pure cane syrup and loaves of Evangeline Maid bread. And there are plenty of items from The Best Stop brand including Cajun mayo, seasonings and whole coolers filled every kind of sausage: pork tasso, smoked chicken, and of course big boxes of smoked boudin ready for the backyard grill.
The Best Stop brings real-deal Cajun cuisine to Katy
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Order counter at The Best Stop in Katy
The Best Stop in Katy sells all manner of Cajun goods.
Bottled sauce is one offering at The Best Stop in Katy.
The Best Stop opened its first Texas location in Katy in December.
Houston has no shortage of Cajun restaurants. But when many of the famous foods from Southwest Louisiana cross the Sabine River into Texas, they often adopt flavors and characteristics of the Lone Star State.
Take boudin, for example. In Texas, boudin contains more rice than meat, and usually features whole grains of rice that are loosely-packed in the casing. This reflects the rice-growing tradition of Southeast Texas. Boudin in Texas is often smoked and featured at barbecue joints. It even has its own spelling — “boudain” with an “a” — that’s mostly seen around Beaumont.
The Best Stop Katy
806 Katy Fort Bend Road, Katy; 346-615-0700
Open daily.
GUIDE: The best barbecue joints in........
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