Allow the Byway to Satisfy Your Appetite
After packing road trip snacks, leave some room for savory eats and decadent treats along the byway. Travelers can find local Cajun cuisine and home cooked Southern fixings along the backroads of the Boom or Bust Byway. Indulge in seafood gumbo, crawfish étouffée and shrimp prepared multiple ways, as well as fried chicken, barbecue, catfish, or chicken fried steak along with green beans, okra, sweet potatoes, and cornbread, but don’t stop there. Treat yourself to the homemade sweets along the byway. There’s a multitude of pies, an abundance of cakes, cookies galore, and so much more to explore!
Where to Eat
AmJenn’s Soups & Scoops
AmJenn’s serves soups, burgers, fries, sandwiches, and lots of different ice cream treats! Now serving a full sit-down breakfast.
218 N. Main Street, Springhill, LA 71075
318-539-2284
B & D Seafood, LLC
B & D Seafood is one of the best spots along the byway to grab Cajun eats. Visitors can order pounds of oysters, shrimp, crab, crawfish and more!
4721 Palmetto Road, Benton, LA 71006
318-560-1939
Big Dup’s Cajun Kitchen
Big Dup’s offers your favorite Cajun cuisine and soul food options. Their menu consists of everything from boudin balls and crawfish to ham hocks and hot water cornbread, as well as breakfast and daily specials.
307 West Mary Lee Street, Plain Dealing, LA 71064
318-326-5001
Chania Greek Café (pronounced hahn-yah)
Chania is the only Greek restaurant in Webster Parish. Made with fresh ingredients and savory flavors, Chania offers everything from hummus to roasted lamb. Stop in for weekly lunch specials.
208 1st Street, Springhill, LA 71075
318-539-3356
Chavo’s Mexican Restaurant
Chavo’s specializes in finding a balance between traditional and typical Mexican food without compromising flavor neither quality. Customers particularly value the very accurate combination of accessible prices and the portions served. Special effort is made in maintaining a family environment inside and out side the premises for customer comfort.
1912 S Arkansas Street, Springhill, LA 71075
318-539-2827
Drift Inn Landing
Drift Inn Landing offers their visitors a chance to enjoy outdoor recreation with a variety of country eats. You can order everything from homemade burgers, breakfast, and crawfish to eat as well as live bait, minnows, crickets and more to enjoy a day of fishing from their pier or boat ramp.
Open 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday-Sunday.
10166 Highway 1, Mooringsport, LA 71060
318-996-7026
Gonzalez Mexican Restaurant
Authentic home cooked Mexican food on the square in Homer.
512 North Main Street, Homer, LA 7140
318-225-3068
Greer’s BBQ and Soulfood
Tired of the BBQ from up the street, where they give you more sauce than they give you meat, well pull around back and let us satisfy your hunger.
500 South 6th Street, Homer, LA 71040
318-225-3031
Homer Nutrition
Serving 60 awesome flavors of protein smoothies and Herbalife nutrition products.
501 South Main Street, Homer, LA 71040
318-225-3106
Homer Seafood
A great place for seafood and pizza, lunch and dinner.
112 West Main Street, Homer, LA 7140
318 – 927-9839
La Herradura Mexican Restaurant
La Herradura cooks up fresh Mexican and seafood including fajitas, fish, enchiladas, nachos, taco salad, and more. Open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday-Sunday.
326 Hwy. 1., Oil City, LA 71061
318-995-8008
Longwood General Store
Longwood General Store is a country store that features a small dining room and kitchen serving Southern classics like chicken fried steak and over-sized hamburgers. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, this restaurant is well-known for steaks. The restaurant serves steaks on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays only. Open 24 hours a day, Tuesday-Saturday and 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sunday-Monday.
3502 Hwy. 169., Mooringsport, LA 71060
318-929-2231
LumberJack Grill
Lumberjack Grill provides burgers, country home cooked meals, salad bar and desserts with a nice family atmosphere for dining in or take outs.
26000 US-371, Sarepta, LA
318-994-2018
Main Street Restaurant
Main Street Restaurant in Gilliam features “country cooking” favorites like chicken fried steak as well as fresh Gulf seafood options including fried oysters, boiled shrimp and more. Open 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday-Tuesday; 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Wednesday-Thursday; and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday-Saturday.
12807 Main St., Gilliam, LA 71029
318-296-4400
Moon’s Grocery and Steaks
Moon’s is a great hole in the wall restaurant with the best steaks in North Louisiana.
6979 Highway 9, Homer, LA 7140
318-927-3687
Peaches Porch
Enjoy daily lunch specials like smoked sirloin chops, chicken dressing and hamburger steaks. This great Southern eatery has down home dishes you will love. The hamburgers are large and juicy, too.
557 South Main Street, Springhill, LA 71075
318-539-3031
Pleasure Point Marina Bar and Grill
Offers food, beverages, wi-fi and lakefront gasoline. It also offers two cabins with lakefront access. There are 30 lakefront full hookups and 20 non-lakefront with full hookups. Enjoy the homemade “Lake Claiborne” burger, a favorite within the community. A full bar is now available with frozen beverages.
775 Peterson Rd., Homer, LA 71040
318-927-6536
Port-Au-Prince
Dine overlooking Lake Claiborne and have some of the best fried catfish and steaks around.
3327 Hwy 146, Homer, LA 71040
318-927-6792
The Butler House Bistro
The Butler House Bistro is located in the Historical Butler House in Springhill! The Bistro is here to give an unique dining experience unlike any other.
206 Butler Street, Springhill, LA 71075
318-539-2282
Uncle Henry’s Smokehouse BBQ
Uncle Henry’s Smokehouse is a mecca for smoked meats. Visitors can indulge in chopped beef sandwiches, burgers, and hoagies, as well as meat platters of ribs, sausage, chicken and turkey.
4717 Palmetto Rd., Benton, LA 71006
318-965-5025