The best breakfast buffets in Louisiana do not try to be modern. They serve biscuits from the same recipe the cook learned from her mother. The coffee comes in ceramic mugs.
The carpet has been the same color since the eighties and nobody apologizes for it. This list spans from a jazz brunch under oak trees in a courtyard to a Cajun buffet in a town so small the restaurant is the main attraction.
In between you will find a plantation dining room with garden views and a casino cafe that won best Italian by accident. Each spot earned its place because the unlimited plate means something when the recipe has not changed in thirty years…