Caffé Cottage — Restaurant in Lafayette

I have been here twice, and overall, dig the atmosphere, love the griminess, the dim lighting, all that. BUT there is this got dang hot dog that has been haunting me for weeks now. I'm including a picture for reference. The alleged Mexican hot dog...

I don't know if it's because I am spoiled by the Mexican dogs I'd get at the lil food truck outside of Quadz in Vegas -- two cute lil succulent dogs wrapped in the best part of the pig, topped with sweet grilled onions and peppers, for only three bucks a pop to keep me horking em down -- or if it's because someone at Caffe Cottage microwaved this poor Nathan's for no good dog gone reason -- by the way, Nathan's are the BEST hot dogs around in my opinion, such a tragedy here -- totally zapped its succulence to Mars and the bacon's to the surface of the sun, then threw some raw veggies on top in the hopes that it would cover up their barbaric act. Sick.

On top of it, that dog cost eight and a half dollars. At that price, my expectations were pretty high. Like y'know when you see a dog at the circus, you expect it to be able to jump through fiery hoops, or balance a bottle of beer on its nose and then drink it and walk in a straight line backwards. Imagine if, instead of doing a cool trick, the circus dog peed on your money and then ate it.

I would not recommend paying anything for this dog. I recommend the absolute lowest expectations. I recommend seeing a doctor after ingesting it. I can only pray that they remove this item from the menu because they don’t know how to prepare a hot dog.

And yeah, I horked it down anyway. I love hot dogs, & I hate wasting food. My whole walk home that night was spent laughing at myself for eating it.

These dogs...

I've only ever come here for lunch so my review is based mostly on the food. I just want to start by saying the VEGGIE FRIES is hands down one of the best food items I've ever had. Grilled veggies, shredded cheese and blue cheese sauce (i think) on top of seasoned (and a bit SALTY) fries...I literally had to close my eyes and just savor it at some points lol I also ordered spicy wings which weren't really spicy at all but I'm glad it wasn't lol (only options for wings were spicy and buffalo). I love how they use a flour crust with no weird eggy layer under it, tasted very homemade. Another item I tried here previously was the alligator etoufee balls. I'm not super adventurous when it comes to eating different kinds of meat/seafood, but I remember these tasting fine.

The look and the atmosphere is very funky, artsy and hipster. The big bookcase when you walk in along with the desk lamps as table lighting are adorable odes to the UL campus nearby. I'm not usually a fan of low lighting but it works here with the very bright desk lamps and large windows. It's a pretty multifaceted spot as it has a bar, serves coffee tea and breakfast items as well as lunch and dinner items.

If you're a parking-phobe like I am, there is parking directly behind the building off of Coolidge.

My only gripe is I wish they had actual small sides. Sure you can get 7 wings for $8 or a burger for $11 as a meal on its own but the moment you decide you need a little more than that plus a drink you're easily looking at around $20. Of course, the one $ rating can be based on a ton of...

The place has good food, good happy hour specials and a coin operated pool table with outside smoking. The owner is a good person and his wife offers dance lessons next door. However, for a bar that is selling & promoting alcohol that has customers who use cigarettes, cigars and vapes you'd think that open minded people could be found here, however during my several visits to this place I found only locals that were full of hypocrisy. Get past that and place is pretty cool Though it needs a dart and shuffleboard to add to the sport side and accent the pool table. This place is a known gay, lesbian etc hangout and pickup bar as the college is just down the street. DAMN fine, smoking hot women I have met at this place so it has...