What Happened to Louie & The Red Head Lady? (Mandeville, LA)

Part 1 — Season 11, Episode 4 Aired January 24, 2011

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Louie & The Red Head Lady in Mandeville for the episode "Quirky Classics," which aired 2011-01-24, highlighting the restaurant's Cajun and Creole-inspired cooking. The restaurant was owned and run by Louie Finnan and his wife Ginger at 2820 East Causeway Approach, on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain along the route linking Mandeville to New Orleans across the Causeway Bridge. A 2013 blog post (Breakfast Bro) described the couple's family recipes and home-style Southern menu during a dining visit. A Yelp business listing, updated 2026-03, marks Louie & The Red Head Lady as permanently closed at that address, and no current website or social-media presence for the business could be located during this check.

Part 2 — Season 21, Episode 15 Aired December 23, 2014

Louie & the Redhead Lady, run by chef-owner Louie Finnan in Old Mandeville, Louisiana, is known for crabmeat omelettes, grillades and grits, and catfish po-boys, according to Visit the Northshore. Fieri originally taped there in September 2010 for a 'Quirky Classics' episode that aired 2011-01-24, sampling grillades and grits, fried green tomatoes, and zydeco shrimp; the 'Best of Breakfast' compilation (S21E15, aired 2014-12-23) drew on that same visit, according to Visit the Northshore.