Is Prejean's Restaurant Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Lafayette, LA)
Food Paradise, Season 4 Lafayette, Louisiana
Current status
As of October 2026, Prejean's Restaurant is open — confirmed via Yelp, July 2026.
What the source shows: Yelp lists 872 reviews for this location with a July 2026 update; the business's own site independently confirms the same Lafayette/Carencro address as an active, currently operating location with current menus and reservations. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 4, Episode 25
- Aired
- Address 3480 NE Evangeline Trwy, Lafayette, LA 70507
- Website prejeans.com
We have not confirmed map coordinates for this address yet.
What happened after Food Paradise?
Food Paradise, Season 4, Episode 25 Aired
The episode featured Prejean's Cajun menu, including a dish likened to chicken, fitting the show's exploration of foods said to taste like chicken. Prejean's Restaurant is a longstanding Cajun restaurant in Lafayette, Louisiana, known for live Cajun music and a menu built around local seafood and game. This entry documents the restaurant's appearance in this Food Paradise episode; see the existing record for the business's current details.
Man v. Food, Season 8, Episode 29 Aired
Prejean's Restaurant sits at 3480 NE Evangeline Thruway near Carencro, just north of downtown Lafayette, and has served Cajun food for more than 40 years, per the restaurant's own site. The dining room's signatures include char-grilled oysters and a rotating menu of Cajun gumbos, served beneath Big Al, a 14-foot mounted alligator the restaurant uses as its mascot. Prejean's later added a second location in nearby Broussard while keeping the original Carencro-area address as its flagship. The business continues operating today: Yelp lists 872 reviews for the Evangeline Thruway location with a July 2026 update, and the restaurant's own site shows current hours, a full menu, catering packages, and an online shop selling branded products. The site also advertises an ongoing customer dish-review contest with an October drawing. Prejean's remains a full-service dinner and banquet destination at the same Lafayette-area address it has occupied for decades.
The episodes
Also in Season 4
Season 4: 134 of 199 still open · 12 renamed, moved or under new owners
-
Ep 24Crawfish Town USA
Open - Renamed
-
Ep 25Beast and the Hare
Closed -
Ep 25Church Brew Works
Open - Closed
-
Ep 25Kegel's Inn
Open - Open
- Open
All 149 TV restaurants in Louisiana →
Before you go: Businesses change fast. Always confirm directly with the restaurant — call ahead, or check its own current website or social media — before making plans around anything on this page.
Sources we checked
- prejeans.com https://www.prejeans.com/
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/prejeans-lafayette-3
We work hard to keep every status accurate and dated, but restaurants change fast and our sources aren't perfect. If something here is wrong — a status, a name, an address, anything — tell us what you're seeing and where you saw it, and we'll check it.
Record mvf-515 · checked by Cal Marchetti.