Third Annual EatLafayette Campaign is Successful.

With nearly 500,000 hits on its website, eatlafayette.com, and a tour of 32 locally-owned restaurants that produced yummy reactions, the third annual EatLafayette campaign has been called a success.

But it's never over! Feel free to patronize the restaurants that participated in EatLafayette all year long.

In case you are wondering, there will be a fourth annual event in 2008.

Freshness at its best at Tsunami.

The end of EatLafayette is near so we are trying to cram in as many meals as we can this week! Lunch yesterday was at Tsunami on Jefferson Street. The atmosphere is sophisticated but casual and fun at the same time, and the service is always excellent! It's so great to go to a place that lives up to the hype! The food there really is that fresh- you can taste it! We had the Edamame, of course (boiled and salted soy beans), always the perfect simple starter, the Eggplant Miso (Grilled eggplant & shrimp, tossed in a sweet miso sauce) and a sampling of rolls: California, Green Monster and a special sushi chef's creation. They also have scrumptious chicken, pork and steak dishes. I know a lot of people don't venture downtown because they're worried about parking, but I must say, it was a breeze. Tsunami has their own lot at the corner of Buchanan & Cypress.

Cafe Vermilionville has reached perfection

The building housing the famous Cafe Vermilionville was built in the early 1800's. When you walk into the main entrance you feel yourself slip back through time, welcomed by warm colors and soft light. The food, on the other hand, is nothing like that! The food is rich and hot with a contemporary flair! The crawfish beignets are a perfect combination of tastes and are incredibly easy to share with friends, but I don't know why you would want to!! The crab cakes melt in your mouth, containing the best lump crab meat in Louisiana. Everything I experienced at this restaurant was the best of the best - perfect in every way. We went to celebrate a birthday and that we did, in Louisiana style....good friends, GREAT food, and a few Bloody Mary's.