genuinelafayette.... ... because this place is owned (with some employee/partners) by the landrys, who are sort of the brennans oflafayette-- i say that because, many many restaurants have been opened inlafayettefrom former employees of the landrys.
the "hut" is owned by the generation of landrys after the founders of the original don's seafood in downtown lafayette. they are real cajuns who hunt and fish and two-step and all that --- aaaaaaaaeeeeee.
this is a straight ahead seafood restaurant and has always been strong on fried food. their gumbo is what people inlafayettecall gumbo -- and not like the gravy that many people here call gumbo. (i don't think much of most of the gumbo you get in new orleans -- though i will eat it here).
since they have been in the seafood restaurant business many years, i trust their sources and it is one of the few places i will eat raw oysters. i agree that the char-broiled oysters are not very good -- there is only one serious place to get cb oysters.
... so if you want to go tolafayetteand don't have the time ...