Seasons' menu bursts with New Orleans cuisine
If you go
◆ Seasons Catering and Restaurant
◆ 7219 Taft St., Merrillville, in the Strack & Van Til shopping plaza
◆ Open for lunch and dinner noon-9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday; noon- 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday and noon-7 p.m. Sunday.
◆ Seasons offers live jazz on Fridays and Saturday, “Jazzy Lunch Specials” Wednesday-Saturday and a fixed price Valentine’s Day champagne dinner with live music.
◆ Call 756-4663; online at seasonscatering.net
Menu prices
Fried okra, pickles, green tomatoes or green beans are $4.95. Our gumbo and Louisiana crab cakes each cost $6.95 and the Mardi Gras Sampler is $9.95. Po’ boy sandwiches are $6.95 to $8.95. My wife’s Southern fried chicken is $11.95, the same price as my half slab of baby back ribs. Jambalaya is $10.95 and Southern catfish and grits is $10.95. A 12-count jumbo shrimp dinner is $18.95.
Desserts start at $1.95 for vanilla ice cream. Sweet potato pie is $1.25, banana pudding is $3.75 and our chocolate and red velvet cakes cost $4. Seasons offers a limited selection of beers and wines from $3 to $6.
Eating Cajun, Creole and traditional Southern cuisine while sipping a cold beer and listening to live jazz, that’s what.And Seasons Catering and Restaurant delivers that and more. Seasons is a warm, cozy and friendly eatery in a Merrillville strip mall. But entering this fine restaurant feels like being transported about 700 miles south of wintery Northwest Indiana.
Owners Hardin and Carmen Danzy are veteran caterers and restaurateurs, and executive chef Alton Omonte performed the same duties in Atlanta. Dishes are homemade, prepared from scratch.
While we waited for our drinks and appetizers, we enjoyed hearing the three-piece Michael Turner Band light the joint up, playing a mixture of jazz and pop standards.
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