The second-generation owner of Poche’s Market & Restaurant in Breaux Bridge died last week, leaving behind a close-knit community at the Bayou Teche meat market his family founded in 1962.
Floyd Poche died on Nov. 4 at the age of 74, and according to his obituary, he spent his entire life in the Poche Bridge neighborhood where he was raised — and where his father, Lug Poche, first started Poche’s Market as a local boucherie.
Floyd Poche purchased the business in 1976, and spent the next 50 years developing it into a beloved smokehouse and restaurant featuring traditional Cajun fare like smothered meats, boudin, barbecue plates and seafood…