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Monday, December 30, 2024

"Always Hot & Straight from the Pot"

The Family

Behind The Food

At Li'l Dizzy’s, producing great fried chicken is a matter of historical pride. Founder Wayne Baquet, Sr. learned the restaurant trade from his father Eddie Baquet, Sr. namesake of the legendary 7th Ward restaurant Eddie’s. Wayne, Sr retired in November 2020. Lil’ Dizzy’s Cafe is the only Baquet-owned restaurant still going, and it is now owned and operated by Wayne, Jr. and his wife Arkesha. They are making the Creole-Soul tradition proud.

Select Menu Items

Gumbo

$9.50

Shrimp & Catfish

$19.75

Hot Sausage

$10.25

Catfish PoBoy

$13.25

Fried Chicken

2pc w/side

$9.50

Fried Chicken

4pc w/side

$12.25

Lil Dizzys Cafe - Red-Beans-&-Fried-Chicken-2

Red Beans & Rice

w/ 2pc Fried Chicken

$13.50

Stuffed Bell Pepper

Comes with 2 sides

@14.25

Bread Pudding

Topped with Rum Sauce

$4.00

Candied Yams

$5.00

Southern Greens

$5.00

Potato Salad

$4.00

Shrimp Grillade

Grits topped with cheese and grilled shrimp, onion, tomato and mushrooms and gravy.

$15.25

Smothered Pork Chops

w/ Rice and Choice of any (2) sides

$14.25

Smothered Okra

w/ Rice with Fried Chicken

$15.25

Catfish Jourdain

Fried Catfish topped with Shrimp & Crabmeat in a lemon butter sauce (choice of any 2 sides)

$19.50

Trout Baquet

White Beans & Rice with Fried Chicken

CATERING

COOKBOOK

"Wayne Jr. and I are the next generation that has taken over Lil Dizzy’s. I am the person that’s here day to day doing the daily operating of the restaurant but Wayne is always right there to give me a helping hand when I need him, Dizzy’s offers a variety of amazing items, the gumbo which going to have seafood and pork sausage we have our own Baquet family hot sausage recipe that we use.

You’re going to get things like our shrimp grillade which is an amazing turn on shrimp and grits it’s even better than that. We have catfish, shrimp, and the fried chicken is hands down the best you’ll ever taste. Lil Dizzy's Cafe got his name after Wayne Baquet Sr.'s grandson Zachery Baquet, he played the trumpet in high school, his cheeks inflated a little big so they called him Lil Dizzy after Dizzy Gillespie"

-Arkesha Baquet