BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Longtime Louisiana seafood restaurant Middendorf’s will be selling its “world famous” thin-fried catfish in Baton Rouge during a two-week pop-up.
The owner and chef of the 91-year-old restaurant, Horst Pfeifer, will set up shop in the kitchen at the Origin Hotel’s Passé Restaurant from March 17-20 and March 24-27. Limited lunch and dinner menus will be available during pop-up hours from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
“We get asked all the time to build a Middendorf’s location in Baton Rouge. Well, this is the next best thing,” said Pfeifer, adding that he hopes to see regulars and new faces ready to try their fried catfish.
Middendorf’s first opened in 1934 in the village of Manchac after Louis Middendorf lost his job in the 1929 stock market crash, the restaurant’s website reads. Louis’ wife Josie is credited with creating the dish the restaurant is known for, its thin fried catfish…