PORT ALLEN — When Paul and Michael Mladenka opened Cou-Yon’s BBQ on Highway 1 in July 2009, the doubters outnumbered the believers.
“I think the list of people who thought we would not succeed was much larger than the list of people that thought that we would,” Paul Mladenka said Friday, sitting in a packed dining room during the lunch rush.
On Monday, the restaurant turns 17…