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We stayed away from further fried appetizers by going with a bowl of the Mumbo Gumbo (one of three gumbos offered) and the peel-and-eat shrimp, both of which continued the theme of big portions at value prices. The gumbo was something like 90 to 95 percent solid ingredients -- small crab claws scattered on top, with bay shrimp and chunks of chicken and sausage mixed with rice underneath -- and the remainder a rich reddish-brown liquid. The shrimp numbered about 16, medium in size with a fairly standard shrimp-boil spicing that seemed to have just a hint of cayenne thrown in for emphasis.

You select one of seven sides with each entrée, and I was hip to the fried okra but negative on New Orleans By-You's version of red beans and rice, which was entirely too garlicky for my taste. Fries, coleslaw, hush puppies, dirty rice and creamed corn are the other choices.

Jennifer Silverberg

New Orleans By-You: the Crescent City by way of Florissant

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New Orleans By-You

35 Florissant Oaks Shop Center
Florissant, MO 63031-3934

Category: Restaurant >

Region: Florissant

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Shrimp-and-cheese loaf $6.50
King Cheese fries $5.75
Fried alligator $6.50
Peel-and-eat shrimp $8.50
Mumbo gumbo $5/$6.25
Crab cakes $9.50
Shrimp and catfish $9

314-838-4048. Hours: 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Tue.-Sat.

35 Florissant Oaks Shopping Center (Lindbergh at Patterson)

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• Florissant
• French Quarter
• Florissant Oaks
• Eating Out
• North-American Food and Cooking

On-menu desserts include two pies and bread pudding, and a buttermilk pie -- more of a tartlet -- was also offered on one of our visits. The "Georgie Porgie" pie was a kick -- cake, coconut, nuts and chocolate filling, tossed together like a sweet-tooth version of jambalaya -- and the buttermilk pie was rich without being too heavy. The bread pudding was OK, but the juxtaposition of cool lemon sauce on warm bread pudding was a little jarring.

And for those who've always wanted to be a critic, an integral part of the New Orleans By-You experience is filling out a notecard at the end of your meal. The nice ones ring the dining room, indicating that dozens of folks up Florissant way are quite happy that there's a taste of New Orleans by them.