Carmine’s Creole Cafe
Formerly owned by John Mims and located in Narberth PA (Montgomery County, a suburb of Philadelphia), Carmine’s Creole Cafe specialized in creole and cajun cuisine, southern cooking and new orleans cuisine.
The restaurant featured both a dine-in and take-out menu including items such as Seafood, Filet, Andouille, Catfish, Jambalaya and Remoulade.
Louisiana Creole cuisine is a style of cooking originating in Louisiana (centered on the Greater New Orleans area) which is a melting pot cuisine that blends French, Spanish, Canarian, Caribbean, Mediterranean, Deep Southern American, Indian, and African influences. It also bears hallmarks of British, Irish, Italian, German, and Greek cuisines.
New Orleans is a place where Africans, both slave and free, and American Indians shared their cultures and intermingled with European settlers. Encouraged by the French government, this strategy for producing a durable culture in a difficult place marked New Orleans as different and special from its inception and continues to distinguish New Orleans today.
It is a live culture. There are the neighborhood restaurants opened by bold creative chefs, the autumnal brass band parades in central city neighborhoods, the young lions of jazz now dominating the local scene as well as the world beyond, and the recently created Jazz & Heritage Festival.
The French Quarter, also known as Vieux Carré - or the “Quarter” to locals, sits on a crescent in the Mississippi River on some of the highest ground in New Orleans. Intimate and unique, New Orleans’ oldest neighborhood has exerted a spell over writers and artists. Not only is this is city’s cultural hub, but is a community where residents take time to reminisce with neighbors about times gone by and to welcome visitors in the streets.
