This lakeside restaurant in Shreveport has history of serving seafood, southern lunch plates

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Orlandeaux’s Cross Lake Cafe serves historic and modern Creole dishes, soul food and Southern cuisine, with recipes passed down from generations as well as new menu creations.

Orlandeaux’s is the oldest continuously operating Black family-owned restaurant in the U.S., tracing its roots back to the Freeman & Harris Cafe founded in 1921 in Shreveport.

The restaurant name and locations have changed but it has stayed within the same family. Freeman & Harris Cafe became Pete Harris Cafe and then Brothers Seafood…

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