Foti's is a plain restaurant, recently a general store and still with merchandise on the walls. The owner proudly told us about her plans to open up the back garden for outdoor dining (don't count on making it work, babes) and to begin serving steaks (?!?!) on
weekends. It's really not exactly a steakhouse setting! Started off as usual with oysters ($4.95 a dozen), which were I think from the bayous, and were good but not so briny and bracing as New Orleans ones. There's an assortment of sandwiches and things on the menu,
but really, crawfish are the thing to get. The boiled mudbugs were underseasoned but fresh and sweet; boiled shrimp spiced with hot sauce, good. The "Doug's special" of 2.5 lb crawfish and 15 shrimp: $12.95. They also have 3.5 lb of crawfish with a potato for $11.95
and 5 lb of crawfish, the family special, for I think $16.95. An order of boudin is about 6 oz each of two kinds - regular and vinegared; both excellent. Comes with bread, which strikes me as redundant, because there's enough starch in the sausage already. We asked the
owner whether the boudin was made there, she said no. Was vague about identity of maker, said to be in Breaux Bridge. Went there, asked at the local drugstore, where an old guy said, "oh, yeah, I go there every morning and have boudin for breakfast." The place is
called Bayou Boudin, and it's on La. 94 at the north end of town, right by the Bayou Teche. It was closed when we got there.