Prejean's Restaurant Carencro
3480 NE Evangeline Thruway, Lafayette
(337) 896-3247
Customers' Favorites
Boz Choice Filet Crawfish Etouffee
White Chocolate Bread Pudding
Prejean's Seafood Platter
Fried Crawfish Pasta Inez
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
Smoked Duck Tasso Gumbo
Zydeco Steak and Eggs
Zydeco Stuffed Shrimp
Cowboy Ken's Catfish
Crawfish Enchiladas
Beverages
Coke
Diet Coke
Sprite
Root Beer
Dr. Pepper
Abita Root Beer
Sweet Tea
Unsweet Tea
Coffee
Decaf Coffee
Appetizers
Carencro Kicking Shrimp
Crispy panko coated gulf shrimp tossed in carencro kicker sauce and served over Sriracha cabbage slaw with a sweet chili sauce drizzle.
Shrimp Sassafras
2 pieces jumbo shrimp stuffed with pepper jack cheese, grilled tasso, and wrapped with Applewood smoked bacon. Breaded and fried and set in our crawfish cardinale cream sauce.
Fried Green Tomatoes
Crispy fresh green tomatoes covered with a rich crawfish shrimp sherry cream sauce.
Seafood Stuffed Mushroom
Six tender mushroom caps filled with a delicate crab and shrimp stuffing, dusted with Parmesan cheese, baked and drizzled with crab butter cream sauce.
Crawfish Enchilada
Made famous New Orleans jazz fest a velvety crawfish and Rotel cream sauce, wrapped in flour tortillas, topped with shredded, 3 blend cheese, baked to perfection and finished with zesty creole sauce.
Croc De Jacques
Tender louisiana alligator filets, seasoned and breaded and served with alligator boulettes.
Tout Que' Chose
Fried frog legs, crawfish tails, mushrooms, alligator, popcorn shrimp and crawfish boudin balls.
Crab Cake Cardinale
Our succulent crab cake, either pan grilled or fried, set in a rich crawfish cardinale sauce.
Crawfish Boudin Ball
Chef's house recipe of savory crawfish and rice boulettes, fried golden and served by the half dozen, accompanied by crab butter cream sauce.
Crawfish Nachos
Crispy stone ground tortilla chips, topped with velvety crawfish cream and cheddar, baked to perfection, and finished with diced jalapenos and fresh herb aioli.
Prejean's Alligator Cheesecake
Prejean's smokehouse alligator sausage and fresh gulf shrimp, blended with cream cheese and creole seasoning, baked over a Parmesan and panko crust and ladled with crawfish cardinale cream sauce.
Oyster Rockefeller Bake
Select fried oysters set over a bed of creamy Rockefeller sauce. Topped with pepper jack cheese, then melted and finished with a Cajun Sriracha aioli sauce.
Prejean's Cajun Boudin
House made boudin links served grilled and drizzled with a spicy mustard sauce.
BBQ Shrimp Inez
Fresh from the gulf shrimp simmered in Abita Turbo Dog beer and Worcestershire sauce served with toasted bread points for dipping.
Gumbos, Soups and Bisques
Seafood Gumbo
Shrimp, crawfish and crabmeat simmered in a rich stock and a dark roux.
Shrimp Gumbo
Dark roux and a delicious seafood stock filled with succulent shrimp.
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
Smoked Duck and Andouille Gumbo
A rich stock full of smoked Dixie duck and acadian andouille, flavored with a dark roux.
Crawfish Bisque
Traditional Louisiana crawfish bisque and served with stuffed crawfish heads.
Corn and Crab Bisque
Fresh, sweet corn and white tender crabmeat in velvety bisque.
Salads
Side Garden Salad
Side Caesar Salad
House Salad
Fresh garden greens garnished with teardrop tomatoes, cucumbers, croutons and choice of dressing.
Caesar Salad
Crisp Romaine lettuce, shredded Parmesan cheese, croutons and tossed in homemade Caesar dressing.
Crispy Oyster Salad
Crispy, select oysters served over fresh spinach, tossed with roasted peppers, feta cheese and award-winning pepper jelly vinaigrette.
Mr. Adam's Marinated Seafood Salad
Award-winning combination of shrimp, crawfish, crab meat, mozzarella and red onions, marinated in a zesty herb garlic, Dijon and Parmesan vinaigrette and set over fresh garden greens.
Green Goddess Salad
Fresh greens, drizzled in house-made green goddess dressing, garnished with cucumbers, tomatoes, croutons and shaved, smoked Gouda cheese. Served with a choice of mesquite-grilled chicken breast or six jumbo shrimp, blackened and grilled or fried.
Pasta
Prejean's Past Inze
Choice of fresh chicken breast or 6 Gulf shrimp seasoned with Magic of the Bayou and bronzed to perfection. Served over penne pasta, tossed in roasted chili cream and garnished with green onions and grated Parmesan cheese. Served with garlic toast points.
Prejean's Seafood Alfredo Pasta
Blue point lump crab meat with Louisiana crawfish and shrimp, tossed with fettuccini in a cream, basil and Parmesan reduction, served with crispy oysters and garlic toast points.
Chicken Prejean Parmesan Pasta
Fresh from the farm chicken breast breaded with breadcrumbs and Parmesan cheese. Pan grilled until golden then topped with a creole marinara and Monterrey jack cheese, served over angel hair pasta tossed in a Cajun Alfredo sauce accompanied with a side of steamed vegetables.
Steaks and Ribs
Cajun Sweet Heat Ribs
Pecan smoked St. Louis ribs basted with a spicy honey barbeque sauce, served with corn macque choux, garlic toast and sweet potato fries.
Cane Glazed Beef Short Rib
Tender, braised beef short rib, finished with Prejean's cane and garlic glaze, set over Cajun hash potatoes, sauteed seasonal vegetables and a rich veal demi glace.
Ribeye
12oz ribeye, hand cut, mesquite grilled or blackened, cooked to specification. Served with a twice baked potato and corn macque choux.
Sirloin
8oz top sirloin, grilled to specification, served with seasonal vegetables and a baked potato.
Lagniappe
Cajun Fire Burger
Fresh Angus chuck patty grilled to perfection and dressed with jalapeno slices, Sriracha Cajun mayo, pepper jack cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and pickles served on a jalapeno cheese bun with sweet potato fries.
Crispy Thai Veggie Eggplant
Panko coated eggplant pirogue filled with red and yellow bell peppers, fresh spinach, mushrooms, black olives and asparagus with sundried, fresh tomatoes and ladled with Thai chili sauce.
Pan Grilled Catfish
Bronzed catfish fillet set over bok choy, nappa cabbage and Louisiana steamed rice. Ladled with Thai curry cream sauce.
Prejean's Red Beans and Rice
A Louisiana tradition of slow cooked red beans seasoned with smokehouse sausage and Cajun spices, served with steamed Louisiana long grain rice.
Wild Game
Crispy Alligator
Prime white meat filets, seasoned, breaded and fried served with grilled alligator sausage, a baked potato and corn macque choux.
Crispy Cajun Duckling
A 1/2 duck roasted crispy, served over Louisiana steamed rice, ladled with a rich wild mushroom hunter's sauce. Served with mesquite grilled asparagus.
Alligator Grand Chenier
Tender white tail meat, grilled and seasoned Cajun style, stuffed with blue point crab and shrimp stuffing, drizzled with etouffee sauce. Served with rice dressing and corn macque choux.
Best Sellers
Yellow Fin Tuna Rockeferller
Mesquite grilled tuna filet, recommended medrare, set in creamed spinach, etched with lobster sauce and accompanied by succulent blackened shrimp.
Crab Lovers Extravaganza
Crispy, fried soft-shelled crab set over lump crab and angel hair pasta, accompanied by a crab cake cardinale and crab meat au gratin.
Pepper jack Shrimp
3 large shrimp stuffed with pepper jack cheese and tasso, wrapped with applewood smoked bacon, fried golden and set atop Crawfish Cardinale sauce. Served with rice dressing and corn macque choux.
Eggplant Pirogue Louis
1/2 an eggplant lightly breaded and fried. Filled with shrimp, crawfish and crab topped with creamy Louis sauce served with rice dressing and corn macque choux.
Catfish Oscar Prejean
Crispy fried catfish filet topped with jumbo lump crab and mesquite-grilled asparagus, set over a brown butter Madeira wine sauce, served with a baked potato and drizzled with Bearnaise.
Prejean's Seafood Platter
Frog legs, shrimp, oysters, catfish, alligator, stuffed shrimp, stuffed crab and served with rice dressing, Cajun fries, corn macque choux, and a cup of seafood gumbo grilled platter served with baked potato and corn macque choux.
Grouper Tchoupitoulas
Fresh gulf flounder with shrimp and crabmeat stuffing, pan grilled to perfection and drizzled with etouffee sauce. Served with rice dressing
and corn macque choux.
Southern Fried Catfish
Fresh mississippi farm raised catfish seasoned the Prejean's way and fried to perfection and served over a bed of crispy French fries.
Blackened Catfish Etouffee
Tender blackened catfish filet seasoned with prejean's magic of the bayou, ladled with crawfish etouffee, served with steamed Louisiana rice and with corn macque choux.
Mahi Mahi
Mesquite grilled Mahi Mahi set on a bed of roasted red potatoes, topped with jumbo blue point lump crab meat and tossed in Dijon
caper cream sauce.
Prejean's Traditional
Crawfish Enchiladas
Fresh crawfish tails, chilies and cheeses rolled in flour tortillas, topped with crawfish and creole sauce, cheddar cheese and baked golden served with rice dressing and corn macque choux.
Crawfish Platter
Three courses crispy crawfish salad, traditional crawfish bisque, followed by a platter of fried crawfish, crawfish etouffee, crawfish cornbread and crawfish boulettes. Served with french fries and corn macque choux.
Gold Medal Crewfish Etouffee
Crawfish etouffee, served with a plump homemade crawfish pie and steamed Louisiana white rice.
Crawfish 1/2 and 1/2
A combination of crawfish etouffee and fried crawfish tails and served around a mound of steamed louisiana white rice.
Zydeco Fried Shrimp
12 pieces large white shrimp lightly battered and fried golden brown served over a bed of french fries.
Shrimp Festival Platter
Three courses shrimp salad, shrimp gumbo, followed by a shrimp platter grilled, stuffed, fried and blackened, served with a shrimp butter cream sauce for dipping, french fries and rice dressing.
The Original Grand Isle Oysters
Crispy Louisiana gulf oysters and served with fries.
Crab Cakes Covington
2 pieces prejean's house made crab cakes, pan grilled or fried crispy, topped with crawfish Louis sauce and served with rice dressing and corn macque choux.
Lemon Fish Supreme
Fresh mesquite grilled lemon fish set on a bed of roasted red potatoes and fresh chopped yellow and red bell peppers topped with a tasso cream sauce and jumbo crabmeat.
Side Items
French Fries
Hush Puppies
Potato Salad
Rice Dressing
Corn Macque Choux
Garden Vegetables
Grilled Asparagus
Garlic Toast Points
Baked Potato
Loaded Baked Potato
Stuffed Potato
Sweet Potato
Loaded Sweet Potato
Sweet Potato Fries
Side of Etouffee
Crawfish Pie
Crawfish Cornbread
Sauteed Jumbo Lump Crab Meat
Kids Menu
1. Kids Grilled Cheese
2. Kids Popcorn Shrimp
3. Kids Chicken Strips
4. Kids Hamburger
5. Kids PB and J
6. Kids Cheeseburger
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Recent Reviews
I hadn't been to Prejean's in a couple of years, and I was pleased to see the new menu. The softshell crab BLT was excellent! The service was fast and friendly. The Sunday brunch live Cajun music was wonderful -- thanks for keeping Les Freres Michot (one of my favorite local bands) on the schedule! The ambiance & decor were great as always, including the huge 14-feet taxidermied alligator near the front door!
December 2025
Most authentic Cajun food in the state! BEST fried alligator I've ever had, melt in mouth tender! Love the authentic and original specials that change with the season! Everything fresh! ALL SEAFOOD LOCALLY SOURCED!! You can't find that often! 10/10 Every time!
November 2025
During our recent trip to Louisiana, we went on a mission to try as many gumbos as possible so we ordered every gumbo and etouffee on every menu of every restaurant we visited. It's a lot of fun to see how many variations there are of this classic dish.\n\nPrejean is not a fancy place but it delivers authentic Cajun flavors (we loved their gumbos!) with a super friendly staff and great Cajun live music. \n\nIt's a bit outside Lafayette but totally worth the drive!
November 2025
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