The Bayou Louisiana comes to Biarritz: a first in the Southwest

Welcome to The Bayou!

The first restaurant to offer cuisine from Louisiana, particularly New Orleans.

They are proud to introduce you to this cuisine, here in the Southwest of France, because it is the fruit of French, Spanish and African influence, during the colonization of Louisiana towards the end of the 1600s.

Their main dish, Jambalaya, came about when the Spanish colonizers began wanting to cook the dish we all know, paella. Since saffron was unavailable or inaccessible, they began turning to tomatoes as a substitute ingredient; thus, jambalaya was born.

The French, for their part, obtained control of the territory in 1684. It is this fusion of French, American, Spanish and African cultures that is at the origin of the Creole and Cajun cuisine of southern Louisiana.