I spent the last couple of days in Biloxi, Mississippi, visiting my mother and checking out the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Mary Mahoney’s Old French House restaurant is one of the few restaurants that has reopened in the downtown section of town close to the waterfront. Last Saturday night my mother and I ate an excellent meal there. I had the grilled shrimp with lump crabmeat on angel hair pasta and she had the whole grilled flounder.
In this photo you can see how much higher the water reached inside the restaurant during Katrina than in Camille. The line that you can just barely see at the top of the image is the level to which water rose inside Mahoney’s during Katrina. Based on those lines, I would estimate that the water was about five feet deeper inside the restaurant (actually, the bar) during Katrina.
February 24th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
I think the dish you describe having was the Shrimp and Lump Crabmeat Melba. The menu notes that it was the creation of a “local patron.” That was my father and of course, it’s named after my mother, Melba. Daddy’s original recipe was over rice (everything he ate involved rice in one way or another) and, I think, also involved peas. Mahoney’s modified it by adding the angel hair.
February 26th, 2006 at 12:25 am
That was indeed what I ordered. I forgot the full name for the dish. That’s so cool that Mahoney’s recipe is based on your father’s recipe and was named after your mother.
February 9th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
is u dead